We have been living in our current rental house for 2 and a half years. During this time we have not had the house professionally bug sprayed.
We are having a bug problem at the moment with some massive ****roaches and other beetles and spiders. I do keep the house quite clean so they are not in the house because its dirty.
I have put down ****roach baits and got one of those mortein indoor 3month bug killer sprays and went and did all the skirting boards, window frames and doors (I did this about 6 weeks ago), however we are still getting them (and I mean absolutely massive ****roaches).
Do the owners have to pay for the house to be professionally sprayed or is that up to us to do? I dont know what else to do to get rid of them. I feel like under the house needs to be done as well as the outside of the house as I see them outside. I have also seen mouse droppings under the sink in the kitchen and back in Winter time, I thought I heard possums or something in the roof.
I dont even know how much it costs to get a big 3 bedroom house sprayed.
Maybe if anyone else has any other solutions that work, they can let me know.
It makes me want to move but we are paying such good rent considering how expensive rentals are these days and how hard they are to get, that getting the problem fixed would be better.
To be honest hon, there's not too much more you can do. The big roaches are bush roaches - they're roamers and don't tend to infest (as the small roaches do). They are highly prevalent in Sydney anyway (especially the inner suburbs), and wander in to houses looking for food. And usually go elsewhere if they find nothing. Surface sprays and bombs will deter them, but are less effective because they are transient anyway.
They are generally more active in warmer weather, so this time of year they are everywhere. The only solution is not having any access points for them, which is hard in a rental. Screens on doors and windows, and making sure that skirtings are sealed will help.
As for the spiders, are they huntsman spiders? If you have any large trees close to the house which can be trimmed back, this may help to stop them from coming inside.
Im in a rental and im pretty sure you have to pay for pest control yourself, you can call your agents and ask, we are lucky and have good agents that manage to get owners to fix everything within 24 hrs of reporting it and are willing to go halves in an air con, maybe u can ask if owners will go halves in pest control? I think its a hundred or two for a normal sized house, lasts way longer than anything you can buy at supermarket/bunnings too.
We get the huge ****roaches too over here in Perth, they are gross but luckily they are not after food unlike the small black ones and tend to be loners and not infest.
We found some good spray at supermarket, its mortein lure n kill surface spray, it smells like orange which is slightly better than that horrible fly spray smell, it does lure the ****roaches but its very potent and we find them dead within 30cm of walking over where we've sprayed. So that could be a quick fix for a while, good luck!
Arrrrh! Pests and bugs in our rental!
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