Pests can be found literally everywhere. Sydney is a large city with millions of people. Our city is particularly prone to various German Cockroach and bug infestations, an ideal place for these creatures to live in.

If you require cockroach pest control services, one of the best providers in the city is the Master’s Pest Control Sydney. Our team is always ready to give you free advice when it comes to getting rid of these nasty cockroaches. Contact us to request a free quote.

Without proper pest control, your property can become an ideal breeding ground for cockroaches. This common pest in Australian homes can enter your property through the tiniest cracks and crevices as well as through pipes and plumbing. No one wants cockroaches on their property. Here are ways you can prevent a cockroach infestation.

How can you prevent German cockroaches from infesting your home?

Eliminate food sources

Cockroaches are scavengers. They scour your kitchen for food at night to survive. To discourage this, you need to eliminate their food source—store food in tightly sealed containers or plastic bags. Do not leave food sitting unattended on your kitchen counters. Always empty the sink and clean the dishes every night.

Clean your kitchen appliances, especially your fridge, microwave ovens and toasters, for crumbs and other food particles. Kitchen cabinets and the area under your sink can also have food spills. Always clean your kitchen counter with disinfectant to deter them from walking over them and eliminate their pheromones. Finally, use a tightly lidded trash can and empty it every night.

Eliminate entry points and hiding spots

As we’ve mentioned, cockroaches can enter your home through cracks and plumbing. As for their hiding places, cockroaches prefer tight cracks and dark empty spaces to hide during the day. Eliminating these can help you prevent a cockroach infestation—seal cracks and crevices as well as holes in your roofs or crawlspaces. Avoid clutter, especially in your cupboards and your floors. Doors and windows should fit within their frame to avoid cockroach entry—varnish wooden shelves and cabinets to seal them.

(Related: How to get rid of cockroaches)

Book cockroach exterminators to completely remove cockroaches

If you see signs of infestation or would like to prevent it from happening in the first place, the best step you can take is to talk to cockroach pest control experts. These experts have extensive knowledge of the behaviour of each species of cockroach that plagues your property. They also know the best way on how to deal with them, including the proper pest control treatment to use against the specific type of roach you are dealing with.

Like every uninvited guest, cockroaches are never welcomed in households or any kinds of facilities for their potential risks to our health. To the extent when infestation goes beyond control and over-the-counter measures prove useless, pest control comes into play to eliminate them effectively. Before taking these measures, you may develop several questions about the effectiveness of these treatments, especially those target cockroaches, the culprit of some most common pest problems and one of the most stubborn, hard-to-kill pests. Here, you may find answers to some questions regarding cockroaches extermination and find, or adjust to, the appropriate levels of expectations from them.

Complete German Cockroach Control

One of the most common questions is how long it might take for cockroaches to die off completely after professional pest control. The answer is, it varies, depending on the size of the infestation, the treatment, and the formulations used. There are cases when infestations are so severe that one treatment may not be sufficient and requires several follow-up visits. The same applies to questions regarding the times of treatments needed to make your facilities “cockroach-free”.

For German cockroaches, you can expect a 70-80% reduction in their population in the first week and five more weeks to get rid of them completely, which makes the total of six weeks. However, if your infestation was severe, you may need a few more treatments.

But the most exact answer still depends on the situation. You can ask the pest control agency how long they feel your particular infestation will die off and when you may need another treatment to enjoy the pest-free state. A professional pest control company will be able to give you such information in detail.

(Read: How to get rid of cockroaches)

First Pesticide Spray

For a few days or weeks after cockroach control, you will even see more roaches than ever. But don’t get stressed because they do not all die instantly, but it will rather take them a week or two to die out. The terrifying number of roaches you see also means they are coming out of their hiding places to die.

For example, if your house is treated with exterminator spray, the substance will need some time to reach the pest and kill them because cockroaches die of exposure to the insecticide in the spray, not its smell. During the one or two-week time, the poison is still working, and your problem should disappear with time.

You may also be concerned about seeing baby roaches, but that should not make you worried. Those baby roaches come from eggs that hatched after treatment. Most professional exterminator sprays contain chemicals that prevent baby roaches from maturing and breeding so that there would be no more descendants to take their place after they die.

After the first cockroach control treatment

After your home is treated for bugs, you may want to do a few things as below:

• Keep your home clean: The first thing is to keep your house free from clutter, as you would not want to give those roaches places to hide. You should often clean and store sources like food, water spills, drains, dishwashers, trash cans properly. Also, keep an eye for leaks in faucets or pipes and fix them immediately.

• Block their entry: Another important step is determining the source or entry point for the cockroaches so that your house will not suffer from their infestation again. For instance, German cockroaches are one of the most common pests carried into the home. So, before bringing any used items home, homeowners should inspect those items for cockroaches. You may also want to seal up places such as or window cracks because Cockroaches may make their way into houses under doors and through open windows.
• Combine other treatments: You can ask pest control professionals to use traps like glue boards in areas where cockroaches may exist, travel through, or do it yourself. Another tool you can use is baits and residuals to get the remaining roaches out of their hiding places. You can use gel baits or food bait stations, in which tasty treats are mixed with the deadly insecticide, or a homemade version with three parts boric acid to one part powdered sugar. However, those should be out of children’s or pet’s reach because they may get sick from chemicals inside the bait. Remember not to spray your baits with bug sprays, as that will make the bait less attractive to cockroaches.
• Treat dying bugs: If you don’t know how to cope with dying roaches after the professionals have left, you can vacuum them up. Because high temperatures can kill roach adults, babies, and eggs, vacuuming may also kill roaches to a certain extent.