LOS ANGELES - Cockroaches seem to be everywhere. Even when you clean and disinfect the entire kitchen and bathroom, some how, somewhere, cockroaches have entered your home.To make things worstroaches are extremely fast and not to mention ‘disgusting’ insects that get into almost everything.

My First Interaction With The Insects That Are Taking Over My House

When I was in my early 30’s I purchased my first house, the house was located near a lake in northern California. Let’s be honest, purchasing a home in 2016 is extremely difficult, banks and brokers require a credit score of 700 or higher with a minimum of 5-10% down payment of the price of the house. The majority of mid-age Americans don’t have a 700 credit score; low credit scores seem to be more common these days. The 5-10% down payment was the worst.I had to work 2 jobs while buying the cheapest products at the grocery store for 4 years.

When I finally got the keys it was the proudest moment of my life.Even though the house needed work I was still excided to move in. I started with a fresh paint job that brought out the home-sweet-home feeling, while at the same time bringing out the brown color in the wooden floors.

One night I came out to the kitchen from my bedroom and turned on the lights and the entire kitchen was infested with cockroaches. There were cockroaches on the counter, microwave, dishes, ground, walls and sink. I thought I was dreamingit was a nightmare. I never felt so dirty, I grabbed the broom and started smashing as many roaches I could possible hit.

The next day I couldn’t believe I what I had witnessed. My house was infested with cockroaches! I decided to go to the nearest hardware store and purchase a pack of cockroach traps, gels, sprays, baits and everything I could get my hands on. I went home and went straight to work. I put the entire tube of poison gel all across the sink and bathroom, I also scattered traps all across the house. The waiting game begins. That night I was woken up by something crawling on my arm, I turned the light and my bed was covered with cockroaches and cockroach eggs. I grabbed the comforter, took it outside and started togive it a good shake. When I went back into the roomI decided I had ‘enough’. I go the vacuum and started sucking them into the vacuum.

I Decided to Take My House Back Once and For All

Being restless and annoyed I had decided to call a professional exterminator the next day. When the exterminatorstarted to inspect my house he noticed that the walls had a lot of gaps and cracks along the edges. Garry Bridges the exterminators says:

“Your house is infested with insects because you have gaps, cracks and holes along the edges of your walls, the counters in the kitchen are not properly installed they have an inch gap that give insects and rodents a safe way to enter whenever they please, you’re going to need to hire a professional inspector to inspect your house thoroughly”

Not only were cockroaches infesting my home I might have a rodent infestation too. It gets worst and worst by the day.

Hiring an Inspector

When I found a local inspector he went right to work. He inspected the entire house and the results shocked me. He gave me a list of the things that raised a concern. Here is the list:

• The counter tops weren’t installed properly
• The bathroom had mold from the water sipping on to the walls
• The old heater connected directly to the walls had created so much heat over the years that it burned a hole exposing thecrawlspace
• The water heater was so old it was leaking water onto the floor boards
• The windows needed to be updated because the window sealer was rotten
• And the list goes on and on

When the inspector handed me the list my mouth dropped to the ground. I decided to inspect my house even more, remembering an interesting article I read online by a company in southern California called Local Records Office, they talked about “Home inspection red flags” I put two and two together. To read the entire article click here. Knowing that my property needs work I was surprised I needed this much, cockroaches were investing the housebecause the property had so many problemsthat needed work ASAP.

Cockroaches Are One of the Oldest Insects in the World

Cockroaches are insects of the Blattodea family; part ofthisfamily also includes termites.Cockroaches date back to 320 million years ago surviving harsh conditions and excruciating weather.These in insects typically stand 12 millimeters tall and can squeeze through holes of 3 millimeters wide- the height of the average rice grain.

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