Preventing cockroaches can be successfully carried out with a few basic measures. When it comes to prevention and control of pests, simple things such as keeping doors and windows shut and good standards of cleaning and tidying that can make a huge difference.
Some of the ways you may use to prevent cockroach infestation include:
PROPER CLEANING PROCEDURE
As with other forms of pest prevention, one of the best ways to reduce the risk of accumulating a pest problem is keeping kitchens and food handling and storage areas clean.
Ensuring that work surfaces are clear of food debris, as well as clearing up all waste and spillage will help prevent cockroaches. Cockroaches are more active during nightfall so removing pet food, drink, and litter trays is also a good method.
In your food handling warehouses, adhering to food hygiene standards is an essential part of keeping pests such as cockroaches from damaging and contaminating food.
When it comes to offices and workplaces, keeping your office clean as well as limiting eating and storing food at your desk can help prevent cockroaches from moving in.
DECLUTTER
Removing excess clutter such as packaging, cardboard, stacks of old newspapers and magazines. This will prevent cockroach droppings accumulating by eliminating areas for them to be distributed. Removing clutter from your business or home also reduces the amount of areas where cockroaches can hide.
ELIMINATE FOOD SOURCES
- Removing liquids:
Although rodents, cockroaches can last a week or two without water as long as the moisture content in their food is high, it is still a vital part of their diet. Removing standing water from buckets and sinks will help prevent cockroaches from entering your property in search of water. It’s also worth noting that pests are attracted to moisture and love to live in damp places.
- Removing standing food:
Removing leftover food sitting on tables, kitchen counters and desks can help reduce the appeal of your home to cockroaches. Pests only need minute amounts of food for a meal, so any crumbs, powders, liquid foods spilled on floors, worktops, shelves, cupboards, food containers, packaging, etc will provide enough for a meal
- Storing food away:
Smell is an important factor in pests finding your home or business inviting. We can help reduce this attraction by storing items of food such as cereals and pet food in airtight containers
- Rinsing and removing cans, bottles, and plastic containers
Leftover residue in empty cans, bottles, and plastic containers will attract cockroaches. Even though these items are usually found in a bin, there’s nothing stopping roaches from making the transition from your garbage into your property. A good prevention tip is to rinse these containers out thoroughly before disposal
- Empty bins regularly:
Bins are a prime pest attraction. They offer cockroaches, mites and rodents a whole range of different food to consume. Emptying your bins regularly, preferably on a daily basis, will help prevent roaches from entering and breeding in your property. Commercial premises need to ensure that waste is disposed of before it builds up and overflows containers. Sanitary disposal bins used for hygiene purposes in the ladies washrooms too need to be done on a regular basis.
Although you can take the necessary procedures to limit the food accessible to cockroaches, this will not remove them 100%. Cockroaches are known to consume other forms of food that may sound strange: they eat paper, glue and even turn to cannibalism when normal forms of food are not available.
Maintenance
General building maintenance will deny pests’ routes into and around your property and access to places to hide.
Strategy 1: Pipes and Drains
As already stated, pests are quite fond of damp and moist areas. Because of this when it comes to your warehouse they can usually be found near pipes and drains. Regularly checking this area for signs of rodents, fleas, cockroaches, mites and taking the necessary procedures such as repairing damaged pipes and clearing blocked drains is a good pest prevention measure.
Strategy 2: Shelves
Wooden shelves provide a great spot for cockroaches to live on. The cracks in the grains of the wood provide a great hiding spot. A good roach prevention tip is to paint or varnish wooden shelves. This seals all these cracks and crevices reducing the places a cockroach can hide. Alternatively, you could replace your wooden shelves with ones made from plastic or metal.
Strategy 3: Seal entrances
There is a handful of pest weak spots around a property that provide pests with an easy way in. These are:
- Walls
- Skirting boards
- Electrical sockets
- Under kitchen sinks and bathroom cabinets
Our technicians will check these areas for cracks and crevices and seal them using products such as cement or expanding foam.
In schools and businesses such as hotels, go downs, warehouses, restaurants, medical clinics, hospitals in Nairobi, Kisumu, Eldoret, Kakamega Kenya adhering to food hygiene standards is an essential part of keeping pests such as cockroaches from damaging and contaminating food.
When it comes to offices and workplaces, having a long term fumigation pest control service plan with a professional company is a good bet. Also keeping your office clean as well as limiting eating and storing food at your desk can help prevent cockroaches from moving in.
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