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Try what’s app Paco +34 616 906 064. He fumigates so you don’t get any live ones. They die if they do come in. You can’t enter your house for 24 hours afterwards but he guarantees his work for a year. 80€ for a 2 bed house

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Margo

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cheers will do

You can buy these cans in any supermarket and the Chinos. The spray does stink though, so lesser of two evils maybe. Roaches I'm afraid are part of Mediterranean life and you have to get used to them. The authorities do a great job in fumigating all the sewers for Roaches and rats, but these things are survivors....all you can do is to try and get the ones that enter the house....if you can catch them.

Going off thread. If you have a Gecko in the house, leave it alone. They are great at eating insects etc but I'm not sure if Roaches are on their menu, maybe small ones.

We spray about once a month around the door frame only about 6 inches up though, onl ever had one in the house and one in the back yard.

Apparently don't stamp on them as it won't kill any eggs they are carrying, also best way to kill them is put them on their back, they will just die ( so we've been told)!!!

Attached photo of the spray, from Chinese shop by Lidl, 2.65

The can of spray I linked to at Leroy's is a long lasting spray. I reckons to last a year !!

NOT just a one off killer like the cheap Chino one's.

If you stamp on a female you could spread hundreds of eggs, and they seem to survive almost anything.

The long lasting spray for around window and door frames is called "ZUM".its in a red can.

You can buy something to spray from garden centre

Hi Ray

I had the same problem when we moved in to our house. Unfortunately, the recommended pest controller did NOT manage to solve the problem and we were 50€ worse off.

Eventually, I noticed droppings, which are like black pin heads and they had a nest in the bathroom pipework cavity - you know the bit on the wall where they put on metal covers. These were not fixed in place. My husband treated the area with insecticide spray which had a very small nozzle attachment so that he could squirt it in the cavity. It was pretty gruesome as a couple crawled out and dropped dead. He sprayed it a few times to be sure and then sealed it with silicone.

Photos attached.

The best spray we have used is LACA: we put it around the floor edge of each room once a year. There is another spray that is a barrier that lasts for 3 months which we spray around the outside of the house.

We buy these products from Leroy Merlin.

In my experience the cockroaches do not travel too far from their nest, so the area you see them most is probably where they are coming from. They have even been know to get in via plug sockets!

Good luck.

hi

big thanks for the advice

these things are huge and move like lightening too

cheers

ray18