Can a egg crate be coatted ?

[RaZias]

Everybody knows that roaches love egg crates but they must be changed from time to time.

Can a egg crate be somehow coatted with something so I can clean it with water ?

Like melting plastic with a heat gun that when solidified would adapt to the shape of the egg crate ?

Or melting a plastic with acetone over the egg crate ?

Or painting the egg crate with several layers of varnish ink ?

Any other sugestions ?

 

[Twitch8604]

Most waterproof coating that i know of would make any non climbing roach have problems climbing it. also some could be toxic to the them.

 

[RaZias]

I am think on puting mouldable thermoplastic (a plastic that is mouldable during a few minutes after being on hot water) over the egg crate.

Sanding the plastic would make it easy to make roaches climb.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Friendly-Plastic-Pellets-4-4-Ounces-Ivory/dp/B0026HWG16/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1361912301&sr=8-2

 

[Twitch8604]

should work but mine seem to like to eat the carton as much as they poo on it lol. only thing i can think to the down side of it then lol. Id like to see a video or pictures of how it works

 

[MrCrackerpants]

You could buy plastic egg flats. Roaches that can climb plastic could use them.

 

[RaZias]

You could buy plastic egg flats. Roaches that can climb plastic could use them.

The problem is that is more easy to find termoplastic on sell on internet than plastic egg flats.

 

[MrCrackerpants]

I was thinking about buying some of the plastic ones since many of my cardboard ones get eaten up and/or get really dirty.

http://www.uline.com/BL_1907/Egg-Filler-Flats

 

[Briene]

I'd think anything you use would have chems in it that are horrible for the roaches. Though roaches are pretty resilient ! There is a swap close to my house....a vendor sells the egg crates cheap as hell I am so lucky.