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Originally posted by kizkucuk
You will get cockraoches anywhere warm and moist. There are all sorts of sprays, Make sure there is no food left out and bleach down all the drain holes in the bathroom etc......... I've only ever had one in my apartment and I was terrified - they are really strong - I ended up hitting it over the head with a mop until it was stunned and then tossing it over the balcony - you are very brave if I had been faced with 300 I would have booked into a hotel and put the apartment on the market :-)
That's exactly how I felt!!!
I love our little place in the sun, but arriving with our two teenagers, plus a friend's 19 year old (who has never been to the area before!) and finding our house covered in dying or dead cockroaches was horrendous. I tried to put on a brave face, as did hubby, who's also not too keen on them! (He was fine, till he saw one half way up the curtain, so sprayed Raid at it, and it flew at his face!
:([^] He looked as mortified as I felt! )
We really have to get this problem sorted - I can't face this every time we come over. I'm more concerned that we appear to be the only ones on the complex with the problem. We never leave food in the apartment when we come home (apart from the usual coffee, teabags, etc). We used to have lots of tiny dead flies around the sliding french doors but none this time as the cockroaches had obviously eaten them all - an even more disgusting thought! [|)]
(I've spent all morning looking for remedies on the internet - will take a suitcase of killer stuff with us on our next visit!
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