Keeping Cockroaches Out of Your Home

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A cockroach infestation can be the worst nightmare of any homeowner. In addition to simply being unsightly, cockroaches transmit a number of allergens and diseases, are notoriously difficult to control, and can cause damage to your property. Seeing just one cockroach in your home is often a big indicator you already have many more.

Learn how to prevent a single cockroach from ever making its way inside your home!

Tips to Prevent Cockroaches in Your House

In order to keep cockroaches away from your home, it’s necessary to implement proper preventative measures that will make your home less attractive to infest. Cleaning and proper food storage are absolutely essential to keeping your home roach-free.

Some tips for keeping cockroaches out of your home:

1. Eliminate their food sources.

Roaches are attracted to fruits, vegetables, crumbs, and garbage. Make sure to keep food in sealed containers, garbage tightly sealed, and all pet food stored with tight-fitting lids.

2. Properly clean up your space.

If you’ve made a mess cooking or eating with your family, it’s important to be prompt to sweep, mop, or clean anything that has fallen onto the ground. Make sure that you wash your dishes or get them in the dishwasher immediately after you eat. Leaving dirty dishes out is another cockroach invitation.

3. Eliminate their hiding spots.

Spend some time cleaning up cluttered piles of newspapers and any other potential roach habitats. Get rid of any cardboard boxes or old grocery bags. Any warm, dark place is attractive to roaches.

Getting Rid of Roaches in Your Garage

These resilient pests find garages to be ideal shelters due to the availability of dark, damp, and cluttered spaces. They slip in through small cracks and crevices in the garage door, windows, or walls. Often, they are also brought in accidentally with boxes, grocery bags, and other items moved from outside or other infested areas.

While DIY methods can be cost-effective initially, they may not always be sufficient to handle a larger or more persistent infestation. Over-the-counter sprays and traps might handle small groups of roaches, but they fail to address the root of the infestation: hidden nests and entry points that roach professionals are better at effectively identifying and treating.

Terminix Anderson, Your Cockroach Exterminator Experts

Midwestern residents from all walks of life and in every neighborhood can experience cockroach infestations. Getting rid of an infestation is especially challenging when multiple households are involved. Additionally, improper roach control methods can cause these pests to scatter and avoid the treatments.

Eliminating infestations requires the cooperation of every individual residing in a home — everyone must work together to keep the home clean and sealed to prevent these pests. That said, cockroach infestations are tricky to control and almost always require the trained eye of a pest control expert.

With the help of a professional roach control company like Terminix Anderson, cockroaches can be a thing of the past. So get started today with a free service quote by giving us a call or filling out a contact form here.

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