Cockroach pest control

Cockroaches hide in the daytime, and go out at night in search of food and water. With a large degree of contamination of the premises, any home methods or purchased chemicals will be ineffective. Only professional handling of cockroaches can help.

Pest control: types and principles

Most often cockroaches appear in the apartment and breed fast if there are favorable conditions for this:

• leftover food in the kitchen;
• accessible water sources (open taps, water containers for watering domestic plants, etc.);
• poor sanitation of the rooms.

Most often they get into the apartment from the neighbors through the cracks and ventilation.

Cockroaches adapt very well to any situation, find themselves food and multiply rapidly. Therefore, in a few months, in the absence of measures to combat these parasites, a colony can grow up to 10 thousand individuals.

Professional pest control is the destruction with the help of special chemical and biological preparations of cockroaches and other insects in all rooms of the apartment, for which special equipment is used.

On a note!

The term “disinfection” should be distinguished from the “disinfection” procedure. The latter consists in the application of measures to destroy the causative agents of infectious diseases.

Processing is carried out by specialized services that spray or apply certified chemicals using special equipment.

There are several types of such processing:

• the use of fine spraying - is carried out using a mechanical or electric sprayer;
• the use of hot and cold fog using special generators;
• application of a protective barrier from gel preparations.

On a note!

The most effective methods used by insect killing services are the use of fog generators.

Cold steam treatment is carried out using high-tech equipment that generates and atomizes tiny drops of insecticidal substance in the air. They are ways to penetrate into any gaps and there are deposited on the surface.

Using hot fog the solution is heated in the generator to + 70 ° C, in which the action of chemicals becomes more powerful and effective. In the process of processing, not only adults are destroyed prusakovbut also masonry with eggs. Precipitation of atomized particles with this method takes about 10 hours.

Room preparation

After a request for disinsection from cockroaches in the apartment to a professional service and inspection by the apartment staff, it is necessary to prepare all the rooms in advance to increase the effectiveness of the sprayed substances.

Activities for preparing the apartment for processing:

• remove all food from the kitchen and other rooms;
• try to remove the maximum number of dishes in an inaccessible place (otherwise it will have to be completely washed with special detergents);
• to cover ventilation openings with nets, cover cracks and cracks in the walls and floor to prevent insects from migrating from neighbors or back;
• shut off water sources and remove water containers from rooms;
• if there are animals in the house, then remove their bowls and drinking bowls in an inaccessible place, and close the aquarium with a lid, turning off the compressor for air supply;
• as far as possible, move the furniture for access of the pest control to skirting boards and walls.

Now you can call the service and call its employees for processing.

Processing process

Arriving disinfection workers must provide the owner with the following documents:

• a contract for processing with print and signatures;
• certificate of completion;
• quality certificates for drugs that will be used to persecute cockroaches;
• receipt of payment.

Service employees process the apartment in all rooms, starting with the most problematic ones, where are the cockroaches the most, - this is the kitchen and office space (bath, corridor, bathroom). First, spraying is carried out near technical risers, in the kitchen - places under the sink, behind the stove and refrigerator. The plinths primarily process the back surfaces of furniture, cornices, floors and walls. Then they move into living rooms, where floors, cornices, walls, plinths, etc. are sprayed.

The processing process usually takes 30-40 minutes. Then comes the 1st stage of the action of the insecticide, during which insect poisoning occurs, it lasts about 3 hours. During this period, it is recommended to leave the apartment, tightly closing all windows and doors to increase the effect of the poison.

When using prolonged-release chemicals, stage 2 follows. During this period, the poisoned Prussians begin to crawl out of the shelters, where they die after some time. The main principle of the action of used disinfectants is the gradual poisoning of all parasites, and already poisoned individuals infect healthy ones.

Therefore, the death of cockroaches as a result of pest control does not occur immediately, but as the poisonous substance spreads between the members of the colony. The maximum effect occurs on the 3rd day after the treatment, the entire colony will die in 2 weeks.

Room cleaning rules

In order to carry out cleaning, you should first make the apartment air until the chemical smell from disinfectants completely disappears.

Then you need to carry out the following activities:

• prepare a soda solution (5%) or a ready-made alkaline detergent;
• processing and washing should be carried out with gloves and goggles;
• thoroughly wash all work surfaces (tables and all places where contact with food is possible);
• Wipe the floors only 2 days after treatment.

Important!

You can not wash the walls, skirting boards, furniture and ceilings, because the disinfectant applied to them will act on the surviving cockroaches for several more weeks.

Processing Cost

Disinfection and disinfestation companies are city SES services and commercial organizations. The cost of processing depends on the selected type and area of ​​the apartment. The minimum price for a 1-room apartment is about 1800 rubles. (only cold fog), with the addition of barrier protection - 2700 rubles, hot fog - from 4500 rubles.

Pros and cons of professional extermination of cockroaches

Contacting special companies and doing disinfection or disinsection is recommended in cases where it is impossible to cope with the growing number of Prusaks, and all the tested products are ineffective. Professional processing allows you to completely get rid of insects in the house as soon as possible and with minimal effort, which is the advantage of this method of getting rid of home “aliens” and pests.

Among the shortcomings of professional destruction are:

• the cost of the service is more expensive than self-harassment;
• not all cities have commercial sanitation services;
• the need to be absent from the apartment the first few hours after treatment.

Reviews

They tried to fight on their own with the invasion of the Prussians, but nothing came of it. Therefore, the wife found a pest control company and called them for processing. As a result, a young employee arrived, who processed all the rooms for half an hour, instructed on what to do next and left a letter of guarantee. We are happy with the result - all the cockroaches are out of breath.

Gennady, St. Petersburg

They rented an apartment with his wife and child, and it turned out to be a whole cloud of cockroaches. I had to urgently call the SES service for processing. The etching was done quickly, and after 3 days from the parasites there was no trace left.

Lily, Smolensk