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[quote=Anonymous]OP, trust me, it could be worse!  Our last house was crawling with brown recluses, so I consider the occasional roach in our newer house to be a minor nuisance in comparison!  But I did become an expert non-chemical exterminator!

You just need to find the entry point(s) and the food source and cut them off.  To do so, you will need to obsess for awhile and your family will think you've lost it.  I'm sure your kitchen is clean, but somewhere, there is a food source.  Last year, when I started seeing a few roaches, I took the entire kitchen apart (ok, I guess it was more than a minor nuisance).  I emptied the cabinets, washed every dish that we don't use regularly, wiped down the inside of the cabinets, and then sprayed them with an all-natural spray.  I left all the drawers and cabinets closed for a few hours after spraying, but had them open to air out over night.  You'll probably want to open some windows.  I also cleaned the top of the cabinets because grease accumulates up there and they are attracted to it.  I cleaned behind and under the refrigerator and stove.  there was a disgusting mess under the stove and I think that was a big cause of it.

i also obsessed over filling in the cracks and holes.  Look closely around your doors.  there is probably a crack that they are getting through.  Seal up every slightest crack or hole with a spray foam.  go all around the baseboards.  Look under the sinks and see if there are any openings.  the roaches we found in the bathroom came through an opening in the wall around the pipes.  I just sealed it up with duct tape.

Make sure all of your trash cans are covered.  Our kids have wastebaskets in their rooms that are not covered, so they are not allowed to put any food or wrappers in there.  The rest of ours are covered.

We haven't used anything other than the organic spray for the roaches.  When we had the spider, we did fog twice a year, but we did not do the whole house.  We knew they were coming from the attic and storage room so we would fog those two areas, and set them off right before weekend trips so we wouldn't have to be in the house for awhile.

Glue traps are good, but be careful if you have pets or small children.  Even though we had small children when we battled the spiders, it was worth the risk to put the traps out. So I had them everywhere.  At least 1 against every single wall in the house, including each closet wall.

Good luck!
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