Roaches

We have had a cockroach infestation in our house ever since we moved into this house from our previous house in 2002. My step-father was not a very neat or organized person when it came to cleaning house, although his house was the type of house that was great for breeding cockroaches. The roaches had managed to completely overrun his house by the time we were forced to move out. Needless to say in the process of moving from that house to this house the cockroaches were transplanted as well. Which means we have been trying to eliminate them from this house ever since. We have tried every method there is under the sun to try to get rid of them and have been unable to do so. Well a couple of months ago we began receiving services from Terminex pest control. They have been out to our house about every 2 weeks since they started spraying different chemicals and laying bait traps to attempt to eliminate the roaches. We have cleaned the house of dead roaches and residue several times in the past month or so. We had a scheduled appointment for treatment today to continue to eliminate the roaches. I had noticed in the past week or two that my file cabinet that I have in my room had a good amount of roach activity lately. When the Terminex worker looked at my cabinet he said my cabinet was a nest for the roaches. I was so thrilled to learn this information when he told me. Needless to say we took that cabinet outside and pulled out the drawers and every file and sprayed down the entire cabinet with contact spray for the roaches we saw. Afterwards he told me I would need to clean the entire cabinet with bleach water to get rid off all the dead roaches and feces residue that was still there so that other roaches would not feed on that. He told me I would have to replace every file folder and hanging file folder in my cabinet as well. So I had to go to wal-mart and buy new hanging file folders since I already had new file folders. I cleaned all the dead roaches and residue out of the files and threw away the hanging folders and now those files are sitting in a stack in my room waiting for me to transfer all my files over to the new file folders tomorrow. So all in all I had a really really fun day today after learning that I had been harboring a roach nest in my file cabinet. I just hope that all the cleaning I did today will help eliminate the roaches in the future though. Only time will tell.