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[quote=Anonymous]You are getting terrible advice. First off, they are roaches - American roaches, and it is true they live outside for the most part. They also do fly and are the same ones you see in Florida - palmetto bugs, water bugs, they’re all just an American cockroach. Unfortunately, they can and do breed inside mostly between walls in wet/damp areas and they’re completely unrelated to cleanliness. It’s also very very unlikely they’re coming from your attic as your attic is usually the driest area in the house. They’re usually coming from basements or through drain holes in the wall (not the actual pipes, they crawl outside of the pipe and into your house via the holes made to hose the pipes through). In your case, if you made any cuts to your drywall to install a new toilet perhaps you didn’t seal it completely completely and they’re coming in that way. That would be where I start. That said, you have cockroaches behind your walls, and three in a month means they’re more than 50% likely to be breeding somewhere back there.

The person who mentioned sealing all of your entry points would be correct, but that will be impossible as you’re in a townhouse and can do nothing about your neighbors points of entry. Let’s just say I lived my actual hell in a former townhouse, sold because of cockroaches I could never get rid of, and will never share walls again. Godspeed. [/quote]

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