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In the beginning, there were no roaches. My wife and I are fastidious cleaners. We're tidy people We enjoy cleaning. We had friends over one night and a roach crawled out of their backpack. He got away before we could smash him. That roach, that single, solitary ruiner of domestic bliss, who came intent on starting an empire, turned our world upside down. He was like Genghis Khan. We didn't know what to do...we tried everything. We fought MANY battles in vain before discovering DE. For about 6 months. 6 months of emptying our kitchen and putting things back...6 months of repetitious frustration...6 months of thinking we've finally won, and having the roaches resurge. I got two words for you...diatomaceous earth. There are irrefutable reasons DE works. Indestructible reasons. As with everything else in this life/world, you need a plan, a strategy, a curiosity, a desire to beat your opponent, a need to finish the victor, so your insanity becomes a blossom of accomplishment with the utter and final elimination OF ROACHES. Can you tell that we suffered?! Lol. Diatomaceous earth. Anyone who says it doesn't work didn't use it intelligently. I mean, ANYBODY can use something poorly, without strategy or common sense, and find fault. Some things just never work for people because they give up after the first try. These are the same people who complain incessantly but never get their hands dirty. Or they don't get their hands dirty LONG ENOUGH. To eliminate a roach infestation, you're going to get your hands dirty (or dusty). Otherwise, you're the family on the block with a tent around your house while you're in a hotel for ? # days. My wife and were not going that route...we were gonna win. How can I be so uncompromisingly confident? Roaches can't survive DE. It cuts them up inside and out. If they make contact with the dust, they can't survive. If you dust in their hiding places, they won't have a place to nest, so they run. They try to escape with dust on them. They cannot/will not survive that. To clear up a common misconception... some people say DE doesn't work because after using it, they see increased bug activity. An uptick. Hello, McFly, any ideas why that might happen? Anybody home McFly??? If my puns are lost on you, at least borrow some common sense. You've disturbed them from their hiding places. They are looking for new places... they're panicking, on the run! You will have to deal with them as they emerge. Have a fly swatter or flip flop ready. Practice your aim and repeat strike speed. You think this is a game people?! Lol. This is war. A few PRO tips (yes, we're pros. No certifications, just an average American couple who eliminated a full infestation without any professional help OH YEAH! I got four letter words for those motherfornicators. Can I say that?) So a few pro tips... Dust heavily with included duster behind/under/around the fridge, stove, dishwasher and sink, gaps between cabinets and walls. Use sink plugs and wipe out your sink at night. They follow water and the more desperate they are for it, the more they target your sink. Stop leaving food, water or dirty dishes in the sink. It makes a huge difference. Make a shot spray: In a large spray bottle, mix 5-10 drops each of Peppermint oil, Rosemary oil, Orange oil and Cedarwood oil. Squeeze in a big glob of castille soap as a bonding agent for the oils. This spray will kill any roach within 10 seconds of contact. This our homemade recipe. Roaches hate peppermint and rosemary. Orange oil dissolves their soft tissue. Cedarwood oil attacks their central nervous system. Keep this spray in a black bottle or store under sink. Light will destroy the efficacy of the spray in only a day or two. Spray stored away from light can maintain efficacy indefinitely. As a comparison, we tested Ortho Home Defense against our spray. With the Ortho, we had to spray the roaches repeatedly because after about 30 seconds they started moving again. Our spray kills them in 10 seconds flat. But OHD does have some good qualities, which is the next paragraph. Spray around cabinets and baseboards with Ortho Home Defense. This is a poison. It leaves a film. Roaches eat it and die. This will not eradicate an infestation. It says so on the bottle. It's great used in tandem with DE, which is best used (heavily) in hidden areas ..out of sight areas. DE works best dry. We tried doing the spray but the sprayer gets clogged. After multiple mixtures we gave up. If you only use it behind and around your appliances, sink and cabinetry gaps, roaches won't have a nesting place in your kitchen. If they don't have access to your kitchen, they'll leave your house. DE will kill most and render escape difficult for the survivors. Another approach is the plugin frequency emitters. They have improved in the last few years. Use these in conjunction with the DE and our spray. This eliminates the need for spraying the insecticides. Roaches need water. They survived the dinosaurs, but they'll die after a few days without water. It was amazing watching dust covered roaches, so desperate for water, because the DE was drying them out. Leave an angular glass of water out and if that's the only water available to them, they'll climb in and drown. Roaches need warmth. They love to enter the vents of dishwashers and coffee makers and they will nest there. In our dishwasher, we found a nest under the circuit board (inside the button module). I had to remove and disassemble the entire front panel to clean it out. Make a thick slurry with DE and apply with q-tips in these places. You can't dust and spray is hard to control. A slurry will harden and turn into razor blades for roaches. They will leave your dishwasher. Coffee makers are tricky. They vent on the bottom for easy access and are convenient for roaches. Coffee makers always have moisture inside. It may be best to use a french press until you stop seeing roaches. The frequency emitters are great deterrents after doing a scorched earth campaign with the DE. DE made the difference. We won the war because of it. About a month after dusting, with a couple repeat applications, the last few survivors either left, were smashed or died of dehydration. Other approaches help in unison, but only DE is 100% effective. Read about the White House. That's what inspired us. We were so beyond fed up and we're so grateful to DE and the Harris company for their product. They made our home a home again. Copy/paste and utilize this information. Win the war!!!