Where to go if cockroaches appear in the entrance?

Where do cockroaches come from in an apartment?

Cockroaches may end up in your home for various reasons:

• accidentally arrive along with a parcel or an order from an online store;
• move from a cafe or store on the ground floor;
• come from neighbors who poison insects;
• move out of an apartment in which they have become cramped

If insects are coming from a neighboring apartment, they may appear from:

• kitchen hood duct;
• ventilation shaft;
• window;
• gaps between the window sill and the window;
• cracks in the wall, ceiling;
• gap between panels;
• sockets;
• sewer

The pest is able to penetrate through any opening. In a cluttered apartment, he feeds on garbage, food scraps and crumbs. Anything his paws touch can potentially become a source of infection. Plying between the dinner table and the garbage can, a cockroach endangers the health of all family members, no matter how thoroughly they wash their hands.

But even in a tidy apartment, cockroaches can settle if they have free access to food: dried fruits in a vase, crumbs on the floor, a trash can without a lid - an offer that insects cannot refuse.

What to do

When cockroaches crawl from your neighbors, special companies that professionally exterminate such parasites know what to do. But even after a full-fledged professional disinfestation has been carried out on troubled neighbors, you cannot be absolutely calm and feel completely protected.

After some time, new individuals of cockroaches may appear, which will ruin the life of more than one family.

If they flee from other apartments

In an apartment building, cockroaches from neighbors often penetrate into any apartment. It is important for residents of adjacent living spaces, and especially those who have become a breeding ground for parasites, to agree to call a special service to carry out sanitary and hygienic measures.

Until this happens, so that cockroaches do not quickly fill the apartment, it is necessary to block their access to food supplies.

You can do this as follows:

• take out the trash daily;
• remove food debris and crumbs;
• ensure that plumbing fixtures or water pipes are in good working order;
• After using the bathtub or sink, wipe it dry;
• install mosquito bars on all ventilation vents;
• seal all cracks or crevices;
• carry out a thorough cleaning of the house every week;
• use prophylactic agents to combat parasites.

Blocking direct access to the apartment is half the battle. But if at least a few individuals remain, then they will not die out on their own and you will have to fight them long and hard.

You can repel cockroaches in your apartment or destroy them using the following means:

1. Baits for cockroaches. For the best effect, it is recommended to place baits in close proximity to baseboards, in corners, under sinks, in cabinets where trash cans are stored and near water pipes. To maximize the effect, it is recommended to use 3-4 baits simultaneously over an area of ​​up to 7 square meters. They need to be changed every 3 months.
2. Among the available remedies that are found in almost every home, you can use vinegar, ammonia, essential oils of mint, lavender, orange, or a decoction of bay leaves. They are added to the water during cleaning. In addition, it is recommended to use fragrant herbs: wormwood, tansy, peppermint. They are placed in the corners of the room to repel cockroaches.
3. Egg with boric acid. To prepare the poison, dry boric acid powder is mixed with raw egg yolk. They also add a little water to form a dough-like mass. Balls are formed from it and placed in all places of greatest insect activity.

Insecticides, repellents, as well as electromagnetic plates used to combat cockroaches must be of a new generation. They remain valid for six months.

If other residents do not want to get rid of them

If cockroaches are crawling from your neighbors, and attempts to solve this problem together do not yield results, then you can bring them to justice in court. Usually only people who are not completely sane are inactive. Their behavior must be reported to the condominium association (association of co-owners of an apartment building) , the housing and communal services office, or a complaint must be made to the sanitary and epidemiological station.

The applicant must have strong evidence that the neighbors have cockroaches. And he himself must have ideal sanitary conditions at home, otherwise the SES may file a lawsuit against him.

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Cockroach invasion. where are they running from?

If the tenants kill insects, and they run to you

Adequate neighbors should warn that they will be fighting cockroaches. But most often, the invasion of inhibited insects begins unexpectedly. Not everyone knows what to do if their neighbors’ cockroaches decide to move to a new house.

Of course, if you know about your neighbors’ actions in advance, you can take the following measures:

• put mosquito bars on the vents;
• set traps;
• remove food products from public access;
• lubricate the baseboards with attracting gel or other means;
• eliminate plumbing problems;
• treat all living areas with an insecticidal agent.

Such measures are sometimes not enough and you will have to carry out comprehensive disinfection using strong insecticides.

Where can I complain if my neighbors have cockroaches?

You have seen with your own eyes how cockroaches are crawling towards you from a neighboring apartment, but your neighbors categorically refuse to poison the insects at home. What should I do?

Contact:

• the prosecutor's office, having prepared a collective statement from several residents;
• city ​​administration and ask them to protect your interests;
• SES and wait for an on-site inspection at your address. Based on the results of the inspection, a conclusion on the examination will be drawn up.

An SES employee will inspect the neighbor’s apartment, document the presence of insects and issue a conclusion on the diagnostics carried out.

Before inviting a specialist, make sure that he has the right to issue an inspection report. This document will be required in court. It is possible to oblige neighbors to carry out pest control only through legal proceedings.

You can complain about your neighbors to the HOA, housing office or management company. It is important that your home is in order, there are no pipes leaking, and it is clean. Otherwise, the SES may bring claims against you in the form of a lawsuit.

When neighbors poison insects, they are obliged to warn you. Otherwise, the surviving individuals will enter your apartment and take up residence in it. When carrying out disinfestation, it is necessary to notify neighbors so that they take appropriate measures:

• cracks and cracks were filled with putty;
• repaired faulty plumbing;
• food and water were removed;
• set traps;
• they applied “protective” markings using “Mashenka” chalk;
• washed the floor with ammonia

How to protect yourself from insects poisoned by your neighbors?

Cockroaches can move en masse into neighboring premises if disinfestation has been carried out in their habitat or if active extermination measures have simply begun (baiting, poisonous baits, traps). In this case, it is necessary to carry out a number of active actions in order not to have uninvited guests.

How to scare away the coming Prussians?

You can order professional pest control - it will be most effective if your neighbors have done the same.
It is necessary if the neighbors have a lot of cockroaches and there is a massive exodus of them into neighboring rooms.

In this case, you cannot get rid of the “guests” using other methods.

If there are not very many cockroaches, you can simply prevent them from entering your apartment purely mechanically or scare them away. Plug all ventilation passages with a fine mesh, coat the cracks with sealant, close the toilet lid and drain holes in the bathtub and sink with plugs.

Ultrasonic repellers can be installed. These are modern devices that protect the apartment from the appearance of both cockroaches and ants.

A device connected to an outlet begins to emit ultrasonic waves within a radius of 10 to 50 meters.

If the repeller is powerful enough, and the walls between neighbors are thin, the cockroaches will run away from them too.

“The case is being heard” about cockroaches

When it was not possible to reach an agreement with the neighbors and the matter went to court, forced disinfestation had to be demanded. The statements of the SES and other authorities to which the requests were sent are attached to the statement of claim against the neighbors.

Claims for forced cleaning of an apartment are considered without much difficulty. But this requires at least a month. The court decision is transferred to the SES and the Bailiff Service. It becomes the basis for forced disinfestation of the neighbor’s apartment. The execution of the court decision will also take some time.

Why are they difficult to get rid of?

It is difficult to eradicate the population of cockroaches, since over thousands of years of existence, cunning insects have developed several adaptation mechanisms to poisons and climatic conditions; they don’t even care about radiation. Dinosaurs and mammoths went extinct, but cockroaches adapted.

1. They know how to pretend to be dead, or rather, to lose consciousness from poison. By sweeping the corpses of cockroaches into a dustpan and throwing them into the garbage chute, a person helps them survive. Having recovered from the effects of the poison in the trash heap, the parasite will soon continue its earthly path. Therefore, poisoned cockroaches can only be disposed of down the drain.
2. They learned to live up to a month without food and even without a head. It’s only difficult for them without water, so they are more often stationed in the kitchen and bathroom. Therefore, it is so important that the plumbing in the house does not leak and the sinks are dry.
3. They are able to regulate population numbers and reduce birth rates under unfavorable conditions - especially when they are poisoned.
   Residents, while persecuting them, notice that the number of insects has decreased and calm down: they say that the remaining ones will soon die out on their own. No, they won't die out! The breeding cycle of cockroaches is two months. During baiting, females do not reproduce as actively, but they still reproduce. If the owners fold their arms at this stage of the struggle, the queen cockroaches will increase their efforts tenfold. Therefore, you can exhale carefully only if three months have passed and not a single running Prussian has been noticed in the house.

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Who should poison cockroaches?

The management company is responsible for the sanitary condition of the house and surrounding area. If cockroaches enter an apartment from the basement, entrance or garbage chute, according to Article 161 of the Housing Code of the Russian Federation, the management company is obliged to urgently carry out disinfestation.

Planned extermination of insects is carried out once a year. Unscheduled - at the request of residents. The management company must pay for calling an exterminator on its own. Pest control costs are already included in the rent.

If the management company refuses to fight insects, residents have the right to complain to the prosecutor's office. To do this, it is necessary to collect signatures from at least 80% of the residents of the house or entrance.

In the case where children live in an apartment with unfavorable sanitary conditions, neighbors can write a collective appeal to the guardianship authorities. Guardianship will sort out the situation as quickly as possible.

Will we get treatment or breed animals?

“Friends” also meet in hospital wards. Cockroaches in the hospital, who should I complain to? To the senior in rank - to the chief physician, because he must monitor everything that happens in his diocese, including sanitation. If his reaction does not produce results, then contact the sanitary and epidemiological service. In small towns the situation is different and not everyone knows where to complain about cockroaches in a hospital. Local officials, mayors, and deputies have particular influence in towns, so it’s worth contacting them.

Review

“I bought a new apartment, in a high-rise building, but the Stasiks were already waiting there.” I didn’t know where to complain about cockroaches in the apartment, I turned to a lawyer because the neighbors did not want to work together to kill the insects. Then there was the collection of signatures and a trial, as a result the company managing the house carried out persecution at its own expense, and everyone was satisfied. Sorry, it took 2 months. Elena."

What do cockroaches do while the trial is going on?

During its life, one insect lays from 20 to 90 clutches, each of which contains from 15 to 60 eggs. Cockroaches lay eggs in a special protective capsule called an ooteca. The durable pouch protects the larvae for several weeks from poisons, moisture and temperature changes.

The female lays eggs in a dark, inaccessible place. And when they hatch, everything starts again. For this reason alone, the fight against insects should not be left to chance and should not be given time to settle down. The longer cockroaches live in a house, the more of them there are.

Courts are good for cockroaches. Therefore, if you were unable to reach an agreement with your neighbors, do not hesitate and contact an exterminator. Our specialists will destroy cockroaches at any time and on any day.

If you need a guaranteed result, call us or fill out the feedback form. A company employee will advise you on the exact cost of the service and book an exterminator visit on a date and time convenient for you.

Where are they crawling from?

The reason cockroaches appear where there were none before is their natural migration:

• having multiplied, they felt crowded in their neighbors’ territory, and they flocked to you;
• the neighbors declared war on the uninvited guests, and the surviving part of the population urgently moved through the ventilation ducts and cracks in the floor to new places;
• the scout is hiding in purchases brought from the supermarket, and if it is a female, then a brood of parasites is inevitable;
• someone received a package from an online store located in a distant, hot country, where everything is very cheap, but sanitation is not so good;
• someone likes to travel and stay in inexpensive (!) hotels, hostels, etc. and leaves the house full of things brought from the trip unattended for a long time;
• someone lent someone an item that they took on a voyage and returned without washing it, and with it the female parasite.

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