How to Control Cockroaches With Borax

Controlling cockroaches with borax is one of the easiest, most inexpensive ways to keep roaches out of your home. Use borax, a jar lid and some sugar to immediately start seeing a reduction in active cockroaches around your home.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

1. Find an old, plastic jar lid.

2. Wash and dry the jar lid with soap and water.

3. Get a box of borax. Pour some borax into the jar lid.

4. Sprinkle the same amount of powdered or regular sugar on top of the borax.

5. Mix sugar and the borax together with a clean toothpick.

6. Group the mixed borax and sugar into a small pile at the center of the jar lid.

7. Place the jar lid in an area where you've seen cockroaches crawl. Put the borax mixture in places where small children and pets can't reach it.

8. Repeat the process and put more jar lids around you home where cockroaches roam.

9. Clean your hands thoroughly with soap and water.

10. Check the borax piles daily. Scattered borax piles mean that the roaches have taken the bait and have been consuming the borax and sugar mixture. If the piles remain undisturbed, sprinkle more sugar onto your borax piles and mix with a toothpick again.

11. Vacuum your carpet. Sprinkle borax on it. Use a broom to sweep it into the carpet evenly. Let the borax sink into the carpet for a week. Vacuum the carpet after 7 days to remove the borax, dead bugs and their eggs.

Tips & Warnings

• The borax mixture should keep cockroaches at bay for up to a year.
• Treat all areas of the carpet when sprinkling borax.
• Handling borax with your bare hands is not recommended.
• Do not touch or rub your face if you get borax on your hands.
• Do not walk barefoot on treated carpets.

[yellowstar2000]

on 10/27/2009 Great ideas and tips for controlling roaches with borax! I love finding new ways to use it! 5*****