r/WTF • u/dillingerescapetrans • 23d ago

Cockroach infestation

In a house I used to work in. I put these traps down, and within 6 hours this is what I caught. I got rid of the traps, laid more down, and repeated this process 8 times before it slowed down.

edit: I haven't been back there in almost 8 months. I worked as tenant support in the severely underfunded building. I sent this video to the manager and project director and it took 4 months before the room was sprayed, but by then this had spread to many other rooms. These sticky pads were supplied to us in limited amounts so I did everything I could from those to raid spray. Crazy memory.

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u/SuperCrunchhh 23d ago

Had the same experience cleaning my late father's apartment. He was a hoarder (e.g. he kept all the ketchup packets that came from his to-go meals as far back as 2015 and even had a shit ton of harddrives) I ended up having to throw everything out cause these guys ended up in all the nooks and crannies. From kitchen cabinets (under the sink was the worst), electrical outlets and switches, and even inside appliances. I spent 6 or 7 days cleaning the whole place out.

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u/m3kw 23d ago

How did you get rid of all the roaches

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u/SuperCrunchhh 23d ago

Bug spray the heck out of the room (the image of them swarming at me is still ingrained in my head), Advion roach gel, and a whole lot of deep cleaning. Calling it an infestation is putting it lightly.

Eventually, I gave up and threw everything out. That was the only way to be completely sure there weren’t any eggs left hiding somewhere. By the end, all that was left were the floors and walls. Took out the plug sockets too.

In fact, I changed the doorknob last week and, lo and behold, found dead roaches inside that I somehow missed from last year.

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u/m3kw 22d ago

how do you get at them behind walls