How to avoid bringing cockroaches into a new apartment when moving

Many of us get goosebumps and an unpleasant feeling at the mere mention of cockroaches. But, unfortunately, no one is safe from the appearance of these insects in the house. Even if you are very clean and tidy, and your neighbors are not, sooner or later cockroaches will appear in your apartment if preventive measures are not taken in time. And if you have already discovered mustachioed pests, read the tips on how to get rid of cockroaches in the house using folk and special remedies.

Where do cockroaches come from?

If your apartment is constantly kept in perfect order and cleanliness, then indignation at the appearance of insects in such a home is quite understandable.

There are several options in this case:

• They come to you from your neighbors. If the residents of neighboring apartments are not particularly clean, the appearance of pests is quite understandable. Sooner or later they may begin to fight them, and then the insects will be forced to look for a new habitat, that is, they will run to you;
• They can enter a home in several ways - through open windows and vents, through cracks in the ceiling, between the partitions, between the floor and the wall, through a ventilation shaft, through sewer pipes;
• A cockroach can be brought to your house by guests or you yourself, for example, from work . Naturally unintentional. If you have pests in your workplace, be sure to shake out your bag and clothes before going home;
• The cockroach may arrive by mail. Shopping through online stores is very popular now. We buy food, clothing, and household appliances. You cannot know in what conditions the product was stored before entering your home. Perhaps an uninvited guest got into the box with the parcel;
• You can also bring a cockroach from the supermarket along with your purchases. Large stores are ideal habitats for these insects. Therefore, carefully inspect the goods before loading them into the package;

• If we are not talking about a private house, but an apartment building, then cockroaches are also found in the staircases. It is possible that he entered the apartment through the front door at the same time as you entered or left the house;
• In other cases, the appearance of insects may be associated with unsanitary conditions in the premises. With irregular cleaning, a mountain of dirty dishes in the sink, which is regularly left overnight, with the accumulation of a large number of empty, dirty containers for yoghurt, jam, with irregular removal of garbage, storing it for a long time in an open bag or storing filled bags in front door;
• With constant access to water and high humidity. Cockroaches can live without food for more than a month, but they absolutely need water. Therefore, if there is a constantly leaking faucet in the house, you regularly take a shower and leave wet drops on the floor and on the sides of the bathtub or shower, thereby creating favorable conditions for pests;

• If the meal is not tied to the same place. It’s very bad if you or your family are used to carrying food around the apartment and eating in front of the TV or computer. The crumbs will be spread throughout the house, which will undoubtedly please the cockroaches.

So what should you do: transport or buy equipment locally?

That is why I strongly recommend that you think about everything 10 times and weigh whether it is worth transporting all your old furniture and equipment to your new life in Krasnodar.

If you really just look at these things, I will say this, with the extremely necessary things from this large-scale whole story, you will only need certain positions at first.

And here’s what you really need for the first time of life and what it will be difficult to do without:

• beds with mattresses;
• fridge;
• washing machine;
• table, chairs or stools.

Believe me, everything else like TVs, sofas, etc. are not essential items and you can simply live without them.

Why didn't I include the stove in this list? The fact is that very often this equipment is available in apartments and houses already at the stage of purchase, and sometimes the kitchen set from the old owners remains if you buy a secondary one. In our apartments in the Solnechnaya Complex, where I offer apartments, there are slabs, as well as repairs for the first time.

Go ahead…

A completely new refrigerator and washing machine in a store costs about 50,000 rubles for everything together, and this will already be a decent piece of equipment, and not the most evil cheap thing, in fact, this is your cost of transportation, if you add to this the fact that by selling on the bulletin board you will gain small money for your old furniture and equipment, then the beds and you will definitely cost free of charge and they will be new on which a fly has not sat.

IKEA in Yablonovsky has a department with discounted goods

Here's a great life hack from me for buying beds and equipment.

The IKEA store in Yablonovsky has a department with discounted goods and before buying a bed, be sure to go there, there you can buy a bed or mattress with a significant discount of up to 30-50%, depending on your luck, of course. Or maybe look for a dishwasher with an extractor hood there at the markdown; these are quite common items with them.

Moreover, when buying new equipment, all electronics stores now give various bonuses and cashback, this means that having bought new equipment, you can then safely use bonuses to buy yourself, for example, in addition to everything else, either a microwave or a stove, depending on your situation.

Separately, I’ll say a few more words about old mattresses, believe me, in my life I’ve seen a lot of used mattresses, which are 100% not worth transporting at all, but it’s easier to throw them away. So at this point we summarize the information regarding the transportation of large luggage.

How to understand that cockroaches have appeared?

Usually, red or black cockroaches appear in apartments or houses. The red ones are smaller in size and elongated in shape, the black ones are larger, with an almost round body.

Many people note that it is much easier to breed black individuals, since they do not lay eggs as often.

Cockroaches are nocturnal inhabitants, so they cannot always be seen during daylight hours. The main signs that your home is infested are:

• Small black dots. If you notice these marks on the baseboards, kitchen countertops or cabinets, it's time to start fighting in the bathroom. Black dots are waste products of cockroaches. Often small scales or pieces of wings can be found next to them;

• In secluded places, for example, in the corners of kitchen cabinets, under the sink, under baseboards, you can often find an elongated oval light brown “larva”. This is a cockroach clutch with future offspring.

Sad experience of purchasing junk on Avito, don’t repeat other people’s mistakes

Now I would like to share my experience of purchasing used furniture and equipment in Krasnodar and tell you with numbers and examples what is really worth buying and what is not worth buying at all. Of course, if you monitor the Avito or Yula website or other message boards, you will one way or another come across very cheap advertisements where they are trying, in the full sense of the word, to sell off their old trash to someone and at the same time asking for some cosmic money for it.

Most often, in the photo you will see refrigerators and other equipment that have turned yellow from ten or even 15 years of use, which the owners display under the guise that they are supposedly only three years old and have never been used. I have a lot of friends who, one way or another, coveted the purchase of such, excuse the expression, junk, what actually happened was that they brought cockroaches and other living creatures into their house and a small heap of problems from the old owners.

Look carefully, they are selling real junk, it can be seen with the naked eye, all the plastic is very yellowed, the models are 10 years old

They are trying to repair such equipment (although there is no such word in the Russian language, there is only repair, but no, they are really trying to repair it, because this word correctly shows the meaning of what they are doing), to play tricks, as it were, and get rid of it.

Some good friends of mine bought themselves a refrigerator and a washing machine for 7 rubles. They installed it and for the next 2 or 3 weeks the refrigerator simply—simply—something breaks and they have to call a repairman, who asks them for 3,000 rubles for the work.

You will laugh, but a little later, and after a month, the washing machine begins to act up, and this is precisely what manifests itself in the destruction of the bearing on the drum. And not just acting up, not just some small rattle or some other minor defects, when spinning clothes, it hummed so much that it was impossible to even talk next to it 10 meters away, something like how a jet engine howls and neighbors come running to you and start swearing , because they say that it is impossible to be in their apartment while your washing machine is spinning.

As you understand, in such a situation, repairs, costs, nerves of steel, etc., etc., will be required again.

These particular clients acted differently, they bought a new car where I told them to at a discount, and they handed over this jet engine for disassembly to a second-hand shop for 1000 rubles and forgot it like a bad dream.

Cockroaches are dangerous

Being around these nasty insects is not only unpleasant, but also dangerous to your health. Scientists have proven that they are carriers of many dangerous diseases, for example, salmonellosis, hepatitis, typhoid fever, etc.

If you leave an open container of food on the table and a cockroach runs over it, or worse, leaves its feces on the food, it can cause poisoning or an upset stomach.

Besides:

• Small scales of the chitinous layer of the cockroach can cause exacerbation in allergy sufferers and attacks in asthmatics;
• The favorite habitat of cockroaches in the kitchen is household appliances, especially those that are not moved from place to place. The ideal device is a washing machine. Inside it is always humid, warm, and there are food remains. Insects live in the body of the device, pollute its insides with the products of their vital activity, which ultimately leads to failure of the equipment. A similar situation can happen with the oven and refrigerator;
• Black dots left by a cockroach on a book or documents important to you are almost impossible to remove without leaving a trace. Similarly, they can ruin a kitchen tablecloth, chair upholstery and other textiles;
• And the worst thing is that an insect can crawl into the ear or nose of a sleeping person. This most often happens to babies.

How did I think then about transporting large items before moving for permanent residence?

transportation of large items when moving for permanent residence, how profitable is it?
I’ll say right away that my opinion has remained unchanged after many years, which means time has shown that I was not mistaken then.

When it came to my personal move, of course, I inquired about the cost of freight transportation between Chelyabinsk and Sochi, as well as Chelyabinsk and Krasnodar. The cost of transportation by truck at that time was about 50,000 rubles.

By the way, years have passed, even diesel fuel has become much more expensive, but even now you can transport things for that money.

At the same time, I was clearly aware of all the negative aspects of transporting large items:

• high cost of transportation, 50 thousand rubles. the money is not very small;
• you will have to somehow pack all the large items;
• disassemble it and assemble it on site;
• Loader services may be required;
• there is a risk of damage to property, the appearance of new small scratches, all kinds of abrasions on furniture and equipment;
• you will continue to sleep on an old mattress, an old old bed and use a refrigerator that is already more than 5 years old and a washing machine, about which I am generally silent, because such equipment today quite often fails.

Review of folk remedies

It is immediately worth noting that folk remedies are less effective than special chemical preparations.

However, in unused cases, they can still give the desired result:

• Borax is a white powder that is safe for both humans and pets, but is a poison for cockroaches. Borax can simply be scattered in suspected areas where insects gather. You can boil one potato and one egg, crush it, add 1 tsp. powder, form small balls and place them indoors. Another recipe is to mix 100 g of borax with 30 g of starch and 30 g of powdered sugar, add a bag of vanillin and a little water. You should get a sticky mass from which you can make balls. When borax gets into the stomach of an insect, it causes poisoning;
• Boric acid is harmless to humans, odorless and tasteless. It has a nerve-paralytic effect, and in large quantities it poisons the pest. There are several ways to prepare a poisonous composition. Mix boric acid, flour, sugar and water in equal proportions, mix thoroughly and form into balls. Grind one boiled yolk and 40 g of acid, distribute into small portions and place around the house. Or simply dilute the acid in a container of water and leave it overnight. Using this method, it is very important to exclude the possibility of obtaining water elsewhere. Thoroughly wipe the sink, bathtub, washbasin, floor around, turn off the dripping tap. Then the cockroach will have no choice but to go to the poisoned water;
• Low temperatures. Cockroaches do not tolerate cold well. Therefore, some sources suggest freezing insects. To do this in winter, when it’s frosty outside, open all the windows in the house and leave them in that state for a day or two. Yes, cockroaches can really freeze, and all you have to do is sweep them up and throw them away. But keep in mind that such a drop in temperature in a living room can lead to wallpaper coming off the walls and heating radiators simply bursting. There is no talk of indoor plants at all. Therefore, we would recommend regular ventilation, leaving the window ajar for several hours. This technique can be used for preventive purposes.

Rules for moving to a new apartment

Moving from one apartment to another is fraught with many problems if you do not take care of all possible difficulties in advance, and there are many difficulties in such a difficult task as apartment and office moving. Through the prism of years lived within the same walls, a person cannot adequately estimate by eye how much various furniture, household appliances and other massive objects are collected in his apartment. This can lead to problems with proper calculation of forces when moving. But before you change your place of residence, you need to take care in advance about how all the property stored in the house will be transported. Before you start packing your things, you need to clearly understand the rules for moving to a new apartment, which will allow you to take a rational look at solving the transport problem and the issues of moving things.

First of all, you need to sort out those things that will be transported to your new apartment. It is possible that there may be old furniture stored in the house, which is likely to be completely destroyed during transportation, so removing old furniture is not always a good idea. The rules for moving to a new apartment recommend getting rid of unnecessary rags and other things even before packing your things. In other words, you need to take with you something that can actually be used on the farm and in everyday life. If the furniture is to be assembled and its supporting parts are made of plastic, solid pieces of wood or iron, then you can disassemble it into parts. The rules for moving to a new apartment recommend saving space in the loading vehicle. It should also be remembered that furniture made from pressed wood shavings can only be disassembled a couple of times. Its screw sockets are not designed for repeated use. Repeated assembly will lead to complete breakdown of the load-bearing structural elements.

Aerosols for cockroaches

If folk remedies are powerless, use special medications.

One of the most popular forms of release is aerosols. The most famous means of fighting insects is Dichlorvos. However, its disadvantage is that it has a very strong odor. Modern products do not have such a pronounced aroma or may even have a rather subtle and pleasant smell. Before treating a room with any aerosol, you must remove all indoor plants and pets, and after spraying, close the door and cover the gap between the door leaf and the floor with a cloth. After a day, the room can be opened. After this, be sure to carry out wet cleaning. Effective aerosols are:

• "Raptor";
• "Dichlorvos";
• "Regent";
• "Raid"
• "Combat"
• "Get"

Gels

Gels are convenient and advisable to use if it is not possible to leave the room after it has been treated with aerosols.

The gels are colorless, devoid of unpleasant odor and are easily washed off from almost all surfaces. They are safe for pets. A component is specially introduced into their composition, which gives an unpleasant bitterness when it enters the oral cavity. The composition is applied to the surfaces where cockroaches most often appear in dotted lines or drops at a distance of 10-15 mm. The effect after using the gels occurs only after 7-10 days. The disadvantages of the drug include the inability to treat hard-to-reach places and the entire room as a whole, and ineffectiveness against egg laying. Gels are recommended for use in combination with drugs of a different release form and action. The most popular gels are:

• "Clean house";
• "Dohloks";
• "Raptor";
• "Global".

Traps

If there are few cockroaches in the apartment, they did not have time to give birth and there is a suspicion that some individuals simply snuck into your house, traps will be an effective means of control.

They are very comfortable, safe for animals and children. The trap is a small box containing poisonous bait inside. Climbing inside, the cockroach eats the bait, and carries its pieces with it on its paws to its relatives, after which mass poisoning occurs.

There are baits with a sticky base . The bottom of the box is impregnated with super-sticky scented glue. The cockroach gets inside, sticks and becomes motionless. All you have to do is throw away the filled bait and buy a new one as needed. Popular traps:

• "Combat";
• "Raptor";
• "Dohlox."

About the quality and cost of modern household appliances

Look at the technical characteristics of modern equipment, it most often says that the warranty period is 1 year, and the service life is a maximum of 5 years. We all think in the old fashioned way that equipment should work for at least 15 years, but equipment manufacturers have a different opinion, they cannot wait that long 15 years is too long.

Now I’ll give an example, previously in any refrigerator the capillary tube and filter drier were made of copper, but now in many of the cheapest models you can find aluminum, which is not intended for these purposes and simply breaks down, becomes clogged, resulting in gas escaping and the compressor breaking down, replacement The cheapest Chinese compressor will cost you about 7 thousand rubles.

Those. buying a refrigerator now at the lower limit of the price tag for 16-18 thousand rubles. you risk with a 70-80% probability of getting repaired in five years and, as you understand, it will not be covered under warranty and will be very expensive.

All thrift stores are filled with household appliances - this indicates their poor quality!

Crayons and powders

The most affordable are special crayons and powders against cockroaches.

They are convenient to apply, but almost impossible to treat hard-to-reach areas. It is also not possible to treat the entire room. Both crayons and powders can be used indoors and are harmless to people and animals. But, if there are a lot of cockroaches in the house, these remedies may be ineffective. They can be used as a prophylaxis after treatment with stronger drugs. The following products have proven themselves to be effective:

• "Mashenka";
• "Tornado"
• "Super Fas";
• "Clean house";
• "Phenaxik".

Ultrasonic repeller

The repeller is a rather expensive device, which in turn does not kill insects, but only helps create unacceptable living conditions for them.

The device creates an ultrasonic field of a certain radius, safe for people and animals. However, the effect of such exposure is very controversial. Ultrasonic waves do have some effect on cockroaches, but only when their level becomes noticeable to animals and people. The devices use low frequency ultrasound. This is probably why the instructions for many devices indicate that repellers are recommended to be used in conjunction with other products, and the effect of their use does not occur immediately. In other words, the manufacturer is betting that a certain number of insects have already been poisoned, and the reduction in their number is supposedly a consequence of the use of a repeller. However, some users report positive results. Popular models are:

• "Typhoon";
• "Banzai";
• Zenet;
• "Ixus";
• "Pest Project";
• Air Comfort.

Where else can you buy equipment to really save money and not run into problems?

Well, at the end of the day, I’ll probably tell you my favorite life hack.

How can you quickly buy inexpensive equipment in good condition at a very low price?

To do this, we will also need some kind of bulletin board in the section you can sort the ad by date of posting, so you can see all the new ads at the very top and the ads posted literally 1 minute and 2 minutes ago. All that remains is to quickly call and catch the latest option before outbid equipment appears. Imagine these also exist in thrift stores.

You can easily understand the condition of the equipment and get ahead of all sorts of buyers and thus snatch it - a good option, in this case you definitely need to look at the reviews about the person - the seller in his profile and then the product that he sells in parallel, because if a person really tries sell something and move, for example, change an apartment or something else - or in your profile you will see that he is selling, for example, not just one refrigerator, but a refrigerator, a chest of drawers, a table, a closet and a washing machine at the same time.

This will be a clear sign to you that this is not a scammer, but a person who is really trying to sell off his furniture and equipment and he is selling it not because something is broken, but he just really needs to move somewhere or even go for permanent residence to another city or another country.

Exterminators

The last and most effective measure is to call the appropriate services.

Professional exterminators will carry out high-quality treatment of premises with stronger and more effective preparations. Most offer at least a one-year warranty. But it is important to understand that all your attempts will be in vain, and the effect will be short-lived if you do not carry out prevention and destruction together with your neighbors .

How to avoid the recurrence of cockroaches?

Once the pests in your home are eliminated, it is very important to create conditions that prevent them from returning.

It is especially important to do this for residents of apartment buildings, where it is very difficult to carry out simultaneous professional treatment against insects.

• Carefully inspect the walls, floors and ceilings of your home for cracks. Through them, cockroaches can again get to you from your neighbors. The voids need to be filled;
• All grilles covering ventilation ducts must have a fine mesh;
• Don't forget about the ventilation duct to which the hood is connected. Often it is not covered with a mesh, so insects can first get into the device itself, and then into the apartment;
• Seal the space around sewer pipes, if any;
• Clean regularly, do not leave dirty dishes in the sink, wipe crumbs off the table, take out the trash more often, buy a trash can with a lid;

• Fix all leaks and make it a rule not to leave the sink wet after washing dishes or the bathtub after taking a shower;
• Place screens on the windows to block the path of uninvited guests;
• If you have a pet in the house, keep its eating area clean;

• A beautiful and popular indoor plant, geranium, thanks to its specific aroma, can repel insects. Place a potted plant in each room;
• Some housewives wash the floor once a week with water and ammonia. Cockroaches don't like its smell. It is enough to add just 1 tsp. alcohol in a bucket of water;
• Instead of ammonia, you can use vinegar. In principle, it is enough to process only the baseboards, and do not forget about the threshold at the front door;
• Also, the threshold and baseboards can be periodically treated with a solution based on essential oils of eucalyptus, cedar, lemon, and mint. It is enough to add 2-4 drops to a bucket of water;
• Cockroaches cannot tolerate the smell of chamomile. Buy dried inflorescences at the pharmacy and place them in places where insects previously accumulated;
• Dry aromatic herbs - chamomile, laurel, wormwood, mint or wild rosemary - can also be placed in separate places. For example, near the trash can, under the sink, in corners, under furniture, in the bathroom.

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Means for repelling cockroaches from the apartment

When considering how to remove cockroaches, many owners prefer to turn to traditional methods. This could be washing floors with ammonia, hanging plants with a pungent odor on the walls, treating with acetone, turpentine, etc. But this method has a clear drawback - all substances are harmful to humans and pets. Flammable mixtures are generally dangerous and there is a high risk of fire.

As for ready-made mixtures and traps, they also do not always show 100% efficiency. Chalk, powders, and baits work selectively; eliminating pests from an apartment infested with hordes of insects is much more difficult. A cockroach repeller will help here.

An insect repeller does not destroy pests, but expels them from the apartment - a clear advantage. The owner will not have to sweep out the dead individuals, there will be none. Additional advantages of using cockroach repellers include:

1. Versatility. The devices work in any room and conditions.
2. Efficiency. When installed correctly, the insect repeller will rid the room of cockroaches and other pests. The device generates a sound-vibration wave, which causes physical discomfort to pests. They try to leave the premises as quickly as possible, which is what the owner of the apartment needs.
3. Safety. The ultrasonic cockroach repeller is safe for people and pets. It does not emit harmful vapors or compounds, and does not interact with moisture or air.

An insect repeller will help solve the problem of how to remove cockroaches, even if a mentally ill person lives next to you. There are neighbors who bring things into the apartment from trash bins. The home turns into a breeding ground for infection, cockroaches crawl out of every crack. No amount of chalk or kerosene will cope with the task, but a cockroach repeller will help even in this difficult situation. All you need to do is buy a device of sufficient power, install it in accordance with the operating rules and put it into operation.

You should not hope for a miracle - cockroaches will not disappear in a couple of hours, the cockroach repeller generates a protective field over time. This is what distinguishes reliable and high-quality devices from fakes. If they tell you that a repeller will remove all insects in a day, this is a fake. To avoid making a mistake with your choice, call us. A specialist will help you choose a device in accordance with your requirements and apartment features.