Burn it all down

Post date: 2019-11-10 05:43:38

Advise me on roach sitings and how to get rid of the *****ers. Complication: new house, a couple of innocuous bug sitings, and prior apartment had roaches but was regularly sprayed.

Since moving ~ a month ago, we have seen 4 roaches, possibly different species.
-first was in the basement, medium sized. Found and killed it.
-small one in the living room, dead in glass of water left out overnight.
-medium sized one on a bakers rack I bought on FB marketplace and had just brought inside, spotted after moving coffee machine and accessories onto it that had been on the kitchen countertops. Escaped into a hole in the rack and not spotted again.
-inside a kitchen cabinet, husband said it was larger than #3, killed. I am trying to tell myself this was the same as #3, but he doesn't think so.

After spotting #2, I bought roach motels and placed 4 in the basement. After spotting #3, I placed 2 in the kitchen.

I have also see a couple spiders around the house, a large brown beetle on the stairs, and a couple of those curly things in the basement.

Our basement is unfinished and has a sump. There's some sort of lip on that edge, perhaps in case of overflow? Not sure.

The first floor has a front and back door. Front door opens to the sidewalk/street with not much going on. Back door opens to the driveway/small patch of soil with overgrown vegetation (on our list of projects to tackle!) and the trash and recycling cans are out there.

The house is recently built, city rowhome, connected directly on both sides with a firewall. There's a coffee shop down the street but no huge dumpsters.

Our last apartment had a roach problem, stemming from the trash chute/combined vents. We got our apartment sprayed, but they didn't spray regularly. I constantly found dead baby roaches in the cabinets and it was awful. We also had a downstairs storage area that was not treated and was adjacent to the dumpster room.

We tried to take precautions when moving, and wiping down the items in cupboards.

So basically... how much do I have to worry about an infestation? What precautions should I be taking? Google is somewhere between "burn it all down" and "nbd."

To top it off, I am extremely squeamish about bugs in general, have had nightmares about giant roaches coming for me, etc. So while I have no problem setting the traps, I haven't been able to work up checking them except for a glance in their general direction.

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