How can I help my boyfriend face his serious, long-term roach problem?
1. Enlist your boyfriend in helping you to clean your apartment. Ask for his help, get him involved, give him tasks to do and be his partner in the effort. This is a prelude activity, a sort of toe in the water experience. 2. Hire a cleaner on Craigslist who will be willing to help teach your boyfriend how to clean. Screen the person in advance and set their expectations. Get them on board with having discretion and a non-judgemental attitude in front of your boyfriend. 3. Pick a weekend when neither of you have any plans. Clear the calendar if you have to. Go to Target and load up on cleaning supplies. Buy durable things that he’ll be able to use for a long time to come. Get a backstock of cleansers, paper towels, rags and sponges. 4. On Saturday morning, have the cleaning person give you both a tutorial on how to clean each room properly. Be a student along with your boyfriend so he doesn’t feel like an idiot. Ask questions. 5. Once you’ve both grasped the plan for each room, start c
If he’s living in an apartment building, his own habits may be only part of the problem. Roaches often nest in places where they can find warmth and adequate water, often from minor roof or plumbing leaks, and then travel to find food. Once a nest in a multi-unit building becomes large enough, the problem is difficult to contain to a single unit. His neighbors may be supplying enough food to the colonies that, no matter how “clean” his place is made, you’d still have an apparent roach problem in his unit, due to adult roaches continuing to scrounge for food. Although there is nothing wrong with cleaning and maintaining ones living quarters, to really control a long term roach problem, you have to kill the nests. Boric acid powder is the most effective way of dealing with most species of roaches in the long term. Only very small amounts of roach powder are needed, and heavy applications are actually counterproductive, as roaches need to be able to walk through the powder to pick it up,
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