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The kids have messaged me, "Mum there's a cockroach in Nan's!" What are your tried and true cockroach problem solvers?
Chemical Warfare
Smeg once posted about baits of mixed Borax and icing sugar. I put it in small tinfoil bowls where the cat can't get to them and it seems to be working quite well
cats are pretty good cockroach catchers but they will kiss you with that mouth an hour later
Sticky traps.
Chemicals just get you roaches with extra and curly wings
Shriek and get someone else to deal with it
If that fails, Iโve heard that borax and sugar traps work well