Cockroach Control in Pune & PCMC

Signs you are dealing with this

• Live cockroaches when you switch on the kitchen light at night
• Dark droppings like coarse pepper along shelf edges, hinges and drawer runners
• Shed skins or pale egg cases wedged into cracks and behind appliances
• A stale, oily smell near the sink, platform or behind the fridge
• Insects coming up through the sink waste pipe or floor trap

Cockroaches mostly hide in narrow gaps near water and food — behind the platform, under the sink, inside appliance housings, in drawer runners, around drain mouths and in the service duct. Fogging a room does very little against them because it never reaches those spaces. The work has to be placed where the insects actually sit.

Gel baiting

For kitchens and food areas, gel baiting is usually the main method. Small dots of bait are placed inside the hinges, joints, corners and voids the cockroaches run through. They feed on it and carry it back, which reaches the ones you never see. Gel is applied in enclosed spots rather than sprayed in the open, so you can normally keep using the kitchen with very little disruption.

Crack and crevice spraying

Where there is a heavy population, or in drains, ducts, basements, garbage areas and storage, we use a targeted residual spray directed into cracks, gaps and entry lines rather than across open surfaces. This is the work you can see in our photographs — a technician on the floor directing spray into the gap under a sink unit or along a cabinet base, not misting a room.

Where it keeps coming back

In flats, cockroaches travel between units through shared plumbing shafts and chute lines. If your neighbours have the same problem, treating one flat will often give you a few clean weeks and then a return. In that situation it is worth asking your society about treating the affected stack together. We are happy to quote for a wing or a full building.

Preparing for the visit

• Clear the kitchen platform, open shelves and the area under the sink.
• Move food, utensils and crockery out of the treatment area or seal them.
• Do not wash down or scrub the treated gaps afterwards — that removes the gel and the residual film.
• Expect to see more cockroaches out in the open for a few days. That is the bait working, not a failure.