First I tried roach bait. Next I tried boric acid. Next I tried those 4 hour foggers.
I have 3 bedrooms upstairs and a 3/4 sized basement with a bedroom/bath down there. I called the exterminator. He wanted 85 bucks for the first visit and 40 bucks for follow up. It has been three days since the first treatment and the kitchen still has lots of roaches. The exterminator said to wait a month and he will come back and spray again. I think waiting a month will only give them a chance to grow. I think I will call him again Monday.
I hope the guy was using poison and not water in that sprayer of his. I don't feel like I am going to get rid of them by the amount of roaches I still have left. I guess I need to ask what kind of guaranty I can get. A unscrupulous exterminator could milk a customer for quite a while.
He wanted us to get everything out of the kitchen counters. (we should have done that before we did the foggers. It would have saved us from having to clean all the dishes) In the bedrooms we took out all the drawers and he sprayed the sides of the drawers and inside the furniture. He sprayed the closets and windows inside and out.