I keep getting cockroaches in my coffee maker!!! How do i stop this?

Question

I keep getting cockroaches in my coffee maker!!! How do i stop this?

Answer 1

You have a roach problem, not a coffee maker problem.

Open up the cabinet under the kitchen sink.

You need to set off a bug bomb in the area under the floor of the area under your kitchen sink.

Pull out all the drawers under the kitchen counter. Spray the framework and floor heavily with roach and ant insecticide spray.

Clear your counter top and spray a band around that too.

You will have roaches all over the place.

If there are holes in the wall, you need to spray in there, and get the bathroom too.

Yes, this will only be a temporary fix unless you get a professional exterminator, but it will be a much longer temporary fix.

Protect anything you eat with from getting sprayed or dripped on. Follow safety precautions and open the windows. You will have a lot of dead roaches.

Answer 2

Cockroach Coffee

Answer 3

I've had my Cuisinart about eight years, I bought it when I quit drinking. I broke a couple of carafes so I bought a stainless steel one that matches the coffee maker. I think there about a $125 new but I got mine on eBay, new for $50. I have an old, like from collage old, stainless steel French press (actually made in Germany by Krup) I put into service when the power goes out, which is often around here. RScott

Answer 4

If I were you put your cofeee maker inside your cupboards that what I do!!

Answer 5

What a nuisance. I would keep the coffee maker in an appropriately sized container with a lid that fits tightly. Call an exterminator, because if you see a few in a coffee maker, you've got a problem.

Answer 6

If it were winter I would tell you to put it outside. But the weather being warmer you need to clean it out and store anything they like in a large rubbermaid when not in use. They love both the coffee and the water.



If your apartment is one of many in the same building and the entire building isn't fumigated simultaneously, any measure you take alone will be only temporarily successful, at best. They'll just move next door until you're done with anything you try alone. Call up your local Department of Sanitation/Environment and complain that you have an infestation problem that is not being addresses by your landlord. Give them your landlord's name, address and phone number.



If this is a single dwelling then you can fumigate the house. Isolating the coffee and any open things will only keep those items safe...a cockroach can live off of the nutrients in the glue off a postage stamp for a month.



If you saw 6 multiply that times 1000. You need to get the building clean with the proper amount of bomb... 1/2 strength attempts only make stronger roaches.

Answer 7

rub lemon juice on the end of it and they wont go near it

Answer 8

Buy some cockroach powder and sprinkle in a circle around the coffee maker and that should work.

Answer 9

Oh my god. I don't have any advice, but reading that made a chill go up my spine. Wow...I would have to move out.

Answer 10

How disgusting! I am so sorry, I love coffee and has a very visceral reaction to this! I also had cockroaches when I lived in an apt bldg, and the extermination worked. I was lucky to have them only in cupboards and my garbage disposal (which of course I turned on). Since then, I have been terrified of having them come back. If you have them recurring so quickly in the coffee pot, I bet you have an infestation though, but just don't realize it.



I put boric acid around the floor in all my cupboards. Boric acid gets in the joints and somehow kills insects, I think it makes them suffocate. Sometimes it can be hard to find. I used to get it at these dime-store like places in the city, many run by immigrants, and it often looked like it was imported from third world countries The powder was white and not too obvious around the back of the cupboards and along baseboards and by all the cracks under the sink. Now I live in the suburbs and I think I found some at Home Depot but it was dyed light blue (American safety feature), which makes my kitchen look sloppier as the blue is much more obvious than the white powder. Boric acid only harms insects, not people, pets, although it probably wouldn't be good to eat too much of it, which I wouldn't put past a puppy.



If they are getting in the coffee pot via the cord hole, you might consider sticking steel wool in there. I have heard that steel wool is good for putting into little cracks and prevent rodents from getting in. If they are getting into your coffee pot though, they might even be just crawling up the side. I think it is the water that they are attracted to, but worms can eat coffee grounds, so maybe roaches can too. You might put your coffee pot on a tray and line the periphery of the tray with boric acid, although if you keep the coffee maker plugged in, they might just crawl down the cord to avoid the boric acid. Do not leave any unwashed dishes in the sink. I don't know if that means you might have to stop using your dishwasher for a while too, seems like they could crawl up some fittings to get in there and eat the food there too.



I would also recommend getting rid of any clutter. Roaches can hide in the tiniest spaces. I saw a roach hide in a fold in a paper bag once, unbelievable. I have heard they can come into the house in the folds of paper shopping bags and be shipped in boxes. When I had them, I bought plastic tubs with lids to put my under the sink cleaning supplies in and got rid of any secret little spaces they can hide. Then if I saw one under the sink, I could quickly pull out the tub and smash it before it escaped down the crack. After they were exterminated twice, I did not have a problem. If you are renting and your landlord is not addressing this problem, you may be entitled to withhold your rent until the problem is resolved.