I used the borax / boric acid. You can buy them in "tablet" form for $4 or $5. Put them under your appliances, around the toilets and inside the sink cabinets. They have something in the tablets to attract the bugs and then they crawl on them and burn themselves and or ingest it and then take it back to the nest and share it their nest mates. All I see now is occasional dead roach bodies. Paul Harvey used to advertise "Roach Proof" powder............. boric acid. Been around for a long while because it works !

Since I started spraying around our foundation every 6 months with Talstar P about 2 years ago from someone here on this forum suggestion haven't had one of those big ugly bugs in the house ,).

I have noticed a couple. In the garage, and tub after heavy rains. I squish them with gusto. I also close the tub drain. I hate when they fly🤨

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I had left a bucket in the garage for a week with a mixture of Mr Clean and water. When I looked in a few days ago I saw 6(six) dead palmetto bugs floating. Let it one more day and there were 2 more. Cleaned that out and reloaded my new palmetto bug killer.

If you live in Florida ( The Village’s ) and say that you haven’t ever had a roach in the house, you are not telling the truth!!!!!

If you have palm trees in your yard, you will have roaches. They live in the trees under the friend!

When my buddy was having a house built in TN, we sprinkled boric acid (about $55 for a 7 gallon bucket) around the base foundation, and in between all the studs of every room before the contractor installed drywall. Never seen a bug in his house.

Absolutely, they just don’t see them! And , yes, they do come in through the drains. They also just plain crawl in especially if you have your garage door open or the lanai is also a place they can crawl into as if there is a minuscule space, they will come in. The big roaches are palmetto bugs and they fly!
The scarier bug for me is the wood spider. The size of it is the size of your palm. If you see one of those, you will never forget it!!! I have not seen wood spiders since living here, but if you are near lots of trees or wooded area, they are there. I’ve lived in Florida for 34 years and have seen it all.

This would be the main reason we tape all the drains when we are not in Florida.

How can I contact your "one man band"?

Shooting cockroaches? Either a good shot or unlucky cockroach. I'm not anti gun but BBs tend to bounce, ricochet. Mine will likely break floor tiles. The line, your gonna shoot your eye fits, Just step on the darn thing. Florida solution to cockroaches is to call them Palmetto bugs. Everything may be bigger in Texas but a New York cockroach makes a Texas cockroach into a Palmetto bug.

We’ve had roaches off and on. Stuck steel wool around pipes where there is space between pipes and wall. Our Roomba-type sweeper picked up two; on alive and one dead. We’ve closed tub drains and sprayed inside. Also have those sticky traps all over.

Based on what I’ve read here, I think I’ll try Borax, also.

Cannot stand them. They crunch when I step on them. Sometimes they fly. And they’re fast! I’d rather find an anole or black snake than a roach! Roaches make me shudder.

P.S. oh, I also kept clean towels under the bathroom sink. I pulled all of them out and found roaches and roach poop. I guess they were nesting? Blech! Did find in the dishwasher, too. How do they get in there?! Drives me nuts!

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I have a similar problem. They seem to come out of the shower area. I also suspect the drain. They appear more often after a good rain. I've been in the house 14 years, never had the problem until this past year and I'm still trying to find a solution. I will keep in touch if I find a solution.