Exterminator?

Nothing like brushing your teeth while you watch a small cockroach climb up your bathroom wall....

Anyone out there know of a friendly thorough bug exterminator that serves the Prospect Heights Area? The one for my building sucks.

Thanks for any help...

I'd do it yourself. If you watch what an exterminator actually does it's pretty minimal. They will basically spray some stuff in the corner of your bathroom and kitchen and charge you $100 for the service.

Go to Lowes or HD or some other hardware store and get the spray yourself. For $6 you can get a gallon that will last forever.

It may not be as strong as the stuff an exterminator uses but unless you have a really bad infestation it will be more than enough.

Boric acid is also another very effective product for roach control although you will see powder wherever you put it. Not a big deal if you can get it behind cabinets and so forth but I prefer spraying since you don't see it.

i think that gel in the tube is better, less messy, safer for pets. and i've heard exterminators say it works better.

personally, i see one cockroach and buy three boxes of combat, and the gel, and pray i don't see another.

i used boric acid the last time a little critter showed up in my kitchen. haven't seen once since.

Spray and/or boric acid plus traps (plus "eggstoppers") work fine if you see a few roaches. If you have a major infestation, you've got to go with the caulk and bomb approach. Actually, caulking up any cracks is a good idea anyway. See this discussion from the PS board here:
http://brooklynian.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4121

i have seriously thought about hermetically sealing my kitchen with caulk and spray foam

i've heard when the weather gets really hot and sticky like this, one or two tend to find their way inside (i'm also on the 4th floor so i don't know if it's worse in the apts below). the few that i have seen were during this type of weather. i don't think my walls are crawling with them (shudder at the thought).