After coming across one too many cockroaches in your home, you’ve finally pinpointed where they have been entering from – the in-home rubbish chute. They lay eggs in your home, emit a foul odour when killed, and spread germs and bacteria all over the house. As annoying as it can be, there is often very little one can do about the location of the rubbish chute.
However, there are some measures you can take to minimise the possibility of cockroaches climbing up the rubbish chute and entering your home. Here are some ways you can cockroach-proof your in-home rubbish chute.
1. Install an airtight door or seal
The most straightforward way to ensure cockroaches and other pests do not crawl into your home through the rubbish chute is to ensure there is no space for them to enter.
An airtight door can be bought and installed over your rubbish chute. This is usually a metal door that closes more tightly than the ones pre-installed in your home. Do take note, though: cockroaches are able to compress themselves significantly to squeeze through gaps seemingly smaller than themselves! Hence, check the door fit or acquire measurements to ensure you are buying one that fits well over your rubbish chute.
Alternatively, you can buy and install rubber seals to block off gaps within the rubbish chute doors. These come in long strips that you can measure against your chute and cut down to your liking. Although less durable due to rubber shrinking and expanding due to heat, this is a cheaper alternative than purchasing a metal airtight door.
2. Lay traps around the vicinity
For the pesky cockroach or two that still somehow get through your defences, there are a few cockroach home remedies you can consider – laying traps to kill off cockroaches entering your home is one of them.
Many traps come in the form of sticky glues and poisons meant to trap and kill cockroaches. As cockroaches often enter homes in search of food waste to eat, a trap designed to bait and poison cockroaches could take care of the problem. Such traps contain both bait and poison, causing cockroaches to eat the poisoned bait and head back to their nests. As the poison is designed not to kill immediately, this increases the chance of the cockroach dying in its habitat, which leads other cockroaches to, in turn, die from poisoning when they eventually cannibalise the first dead cockroach.
This, however, is highly discouraged if you have children or pets roaming around the house. Overly curious and nosy pets such as cats and dogs could fall ill from ingesting the bait, and you risk causing your child to fall very ill as well.
3. Engage a professional pest control service
With all other avenues exhausted, one can turn to engaging pest control services to take care of the roach problem. Pest control services have a variety of effective and proven methods to take care of most household pests, which makes them a viable solution guaranteed to clear the house of unwanted guests.
One of the most effective methods of cockroach control offered by pest control companies is fumigation. This is a process in which your rubbish chute is fogged, killing any cockroaches residing and reproducing within.
As a long-term precaution, pest control services also offer insecticide residual sprays, which can last up to several weeks and repel or kill cockroaches residing in the bin chute.
Conclusion
For those plagued by pests and at the end of their wits, consider engaging PestClinic! From industrial to commercial pest control services, we rely on a strong roster of skilled staff and NEA specialists to bring safe and effective pest control solutions to wherever you may need them!
