POSTED: April 29, 2005 by jenjen
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I don't get it, we live on a farm and have a company that comes in monthly to get rid of rodents, I can not belive that restaurants do not do this....................
Yukkkkkkkkkkkkk, don't tell me this, I will not want to eat out again, and I HATE to cook.......
As a rest. manager I know first hand how hard it is but it is possible. First you have to clean clean clean then not store anything that is not sealed. But most important you have to have a pest control contract for weeekly or monthly service. if your place is clean and you have out the right controls ( sorry but you have to exterminate them) then they will go else where. We will not rid the cities but at least they won't be in your place.
up the drains...ok...i would never go pee again...lol....:D
it's just plain impossible to deal with where buildings/businesses are so close together.
Until I lived in Calif. I had never seen a roach. They drove me batty. I lived in those typical side by side units you see pictures of, no more than a couple of feet of space between buildings at most. In our building when you paid your rent you got a tin of spray and everyone was told when to spray so the little creeps didn't just run into another unit. You could watch them run out of an apt, down the stairs and outside where they would find another building to go into. If our building sprayed and the building next door didn't, well you got them back as soon as the spray died down and now they were immune to that poison. What I learned was you have to do an entire area (like the whole city block) to have any impact.
The only thing you can do is pretty much seal any hole, crevice, or entry they can come through but they seem to be able to get in anywhere. You also have to check all groceries, boxes, anything that comes in or you have a problem. You also get rid of the roach adults, and all their eggs are left behind to hatch and so it begins all over again.
I don't know how it is with rats (we don't have those in AB), but roaches are about as indistructable as a thing could be and when you have easy access from one business to another or one home to another, they are pretty hard to manage. I would imagine that although they could bring in poisons to keep the place in check, you have to be careful especially where food prep is involved. It must be a pretty tough thing to manage although I do know they can't survive if they have nothing to eat, no grease, no crumbs, etc. so a place needs to be spotless but even the cleanest places can have them.
As for really pesty problems...Someone I know used to live where there were army ants. They used to get warnings when they were coming and would pretty much welcome them. They'd seal up their foods, leave the house, and when they came back the house was spotless, no roaches, no crumbs, no pests of any kind at all. It was like having a massive cleaning crew come through. Mind you the down side of such a climate is they had to keep their toilet seats down as the rats could come up through the pipes. That to me, is a scarey as it gets. I'd take roaches anytime over that (she says after not having to deal with roaches for years thank heavens).