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You’re a good housekeeper, but roaches have taken over your home. They’ve invaded your walls, your rooms and even your ceiling. No matter where you go, you find these insects feeding, multiplying and causing trouble.

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If you can’t or won’t go that route, you can purchase sprays from hardware and home-improvement stores. These chemicals are not as strong, but many will take care of your problem. Read the labels before you buy and be sure to follow all of the directions.

The best places to spray include cabinets (provided that you seal all of your food first), near sinks and any other place where roaches congregate. Look for the most common hangouts and spray these areas first.

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Like most other living things, roaches need food and water to survive. They’ll go to convenient sources before they’ll make serious efforts to find what they need. If you make food and water difficult enough to reach, they’ll look elsewhere.

Put all of your food into sealed containers: preferably thick plastic, which roaches can’t penetrate. If you own a vacuum sealer (such as a Food Saver), use it to reseal bags of chips and other such foods.

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You’ll also need to eliminate water supplies. Fix leaking faucets. Pull the plug on the sink as soon as you finished washing dishes. Search your home for any other water source and eliminate or treat the problem.

If you’re on well water, or if your city does not add enough chlorine to deter roaches, add a few drops of household bleach to any source of water. You can add a couple of drops per gallon of your pet’s water, but no more. Toilet tanks and other water supplies that aren’t for anybody’s consumption can have more. Roaches detest bleach and won’t often try to drink this water.

Steel wool in cracks and other openings discourages roaches. You can find balls of this highly-abrasive stuff at your local hardware store. The roaches hate crossing these things, so they’ll stay out of your space if all of their usual entrances are stuffed.

Your library is another hot spot for roaches. They love book bindings, mostly for the glue. You can buy roach baits to put on the shelves: the roaches often go for these poisoned morsels instead of your precious fiction collection.

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Small appliances can be wrapped in plastic bags and thrown into the freezer for half an hour to forty-five minutes. This will kill the roaches that have worked their way into, say, your toaster.

Surprisingly, one of the best ways to eliminate roaches that you still see crawling around is to hook up your vacuum cleaner’s suction hose and go to work. You can suck up hundreds, if not thousands, of roaches with your vacuum. Before you begin, sprinkle boric acid in the bag or canister. This will kill most of the roaches shortly after you suck them up. An empty vacuum bag can go into a plastic bag and then to a remote trash dump. You can dump a canister into a plastic bag, too.

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All of these solutions will take time to work. You might even see more roaches than usual at first. This isn’t because you’re doing something wrong: as you reduce food and water supplies, the pests will become more prevalent and bold. More will emerge in search of the now-lessened food supply, but be patient. You should see better results in a few weeks.

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