Ants!!!!

Linz4383

dnt no if anyones mentioned it but i use raid spray and its fantastic! i tend to hoover to ants up spray round the skirtin boards in the kitchen n there gone!

cnat786

My 76 year old neighbour told me last week that she found where the ants were coming into her kitchen and she put a line of copper coins! Old remedy she said. The ants won't cross the coins. She said it worked :T

Edny

Double sided carpet tape stuck on the floor around where you think they're coming in, works for me.

Taadaa

Urgh. We get ants in our house, I have a feeling there is a nest in the front garden, and I found one out back a few weeks ago in a disused plant pot that still had earth in it :eek: I have put some ant powder down outside to try and curb the population, inside I tend to squash or drown with water, depending on where they are.

lainie3961

You can find out where they are coming in, if you are patient, and if you wait till dark and use a torch to see them. You can trace their 'line' back to where they are. Once you find their 'entrance' you can block with transparent wood glue?, filler?, sealant?

I personally used traps - but when they were first in my kitchen and coming in from the floor upto the worktops - I used powder around the skirtings to stop them dead. I couldnt bear them on the worktops or in the cupboards!!!! :eek: When I had got over the shock of having them I put the traps down and so far this seems to have worked. The traps, I am told, kill the nest - but I never did see any ants in the traps or go to the traps!!??? I did, and still do, try to make sure that anything which may attract them is cleaned or put away.

Eenymeeny

We seem to have loads of ants in our garden, particularly on a gravelled sunny area. Is it really a problem as long as they don't come into the house? I'm wondering if I should be trying to get rid of them or live and let live...?

Reckon they'll all be drowned after last nights flooding...

suzeesu2000

Try an ordinary cheap lemon, cut into four and squeeze the juice, ants can't bear it and will vanish. Lemon is cheap, non chemical so it won't harm anything which feeds off the ants (birds), won't harm kids who get inquisitive and smells nice too!
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SpikyHedgehog

If you get so frustrated with ants in your carpeted hallway & resort to putting lots of talcum powder down as its Sunday afternoon & that's all you've got, & then your Errant Husband phones to say he's bringing the children back earlier than he'd said, DON'T use a dust-buster to try to vacuum up the talc... Take it from me ;-)

I used boiling water & tea tree oil last year (after the talc & its propellant over the house from the back of the dust buster...). My ants live under the house, & come up through the plastic drainage grill just outside the front door, though they seem to be coming straight into the sitting room this year, so I need to bung some polyfilla in any cracks I can find.

But last year, i liberally dripped tea tree oil over the grille, then poured a kettle full of boiling water over it. Effective, though I felt awful about it.

Edinburghlass_2

WD40 sprayed along the door step works

debbym

Actually mine are under the garden path right next to the only place where the outside table and chairs can go.:mad: Don't want to spend any extra money and don't like the thought of lots of ant killer powder down whilst the kids are on holiday but they swarm out and crawl all over your legs and feet the second your bum hits the seat. I am going to try borax mixed with sugar in the hope they will carry it back to the nest. :idea: whats the worst that can happen...