Cut off the water, cut off the food, then get it treated properly. And do not reach for a spray — with cockroaches it frequently makes the problem harder to solve.
Remove the moisture and food that sustain them, avoid over-the-counter sprays, and have the kitchen professionally treated. Treatment is £190 for a flat and £240 for a house.
The part most people get wrong: spraying makes cockroaches harder to treat, because it scatters them into new harbourage rather than removing them.
Cockroaches need three things: warmth, moisture and food. Of the three, moisture matters most — a cockroach can survive a surprisingly long time without food and a much shorter time without water.
That single fact reorders everything people normally do. Most householders start with the food. Starting with the water is more effective.
If there is an actual leak, that needs a plumber. No treatment holds against a permanent water source.
This is the counterintuitive one and it matters more with cockroaches than with any other household pest.
Over-the-counter sprays kill the cockroaches you hit and scatter the ones you don't. A population that was concentrated behind the fridge ends up distributed through the kitchen, the wall voids and sometimes the next room.
Modern professional treatment for cockroaches often relies on the insects moving normally and interacting with the treatment. Spraying repellent products beforehand disrupts exactly that behaviour, which can make the job that follows slower and harder.
If you have already sprayed, say so when you book. It is not a disaster and it is genuinely useful for us to know.
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Ask about preparation when you book. What helps varies with the kitchen, and a specific answer beats a generic checklist.
You may see cockroach activity for a period after treatment, and this is not automatically a sign of failure — treatment can increase visible movement before numbers fall. Ask us what is normal for your situation so you know what you are looking at.
Keep the moisture and food controls going afterwards. They are what stops it coming back.
Treat your property, but also tell the landlord or managing agent. Cockroaches move between units through service voids and pipework, and a block-wide problem treated one flat at a time is a problem that keeps returning.
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Remove moisture and food sources, avoid over-the-counter sprays, and have the property professionally treated.
Repellent sprays scatter cockroaches into new harbourage and can disrupt professional treatment that relies on them moving normally.
Poorly for cockroaches. They rarely reach harbourage and tend to spread the population.
Water. Cockroaches survive far longer without food than without moisture, so fixing leaks and drying the kitchen at night is the first move.
£190 for a flat and £240 for a house.
Possibly for a period — that is not automatically failure. Ask us what is normal for your situation.
Tell us when you book. It is not a disaster, but it is useful for us to know.
Often not. Cockroaches move between units, so it is worth telling the landlord or managing agent as well.
Published prices, and honest advice — including telling you to stop spraying before we arrive.
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