Ants In My New Home Help Me Please!!!

angeleyes

:eek:
Can anybody please help
we have recently moved into our house and we have just discovered we are sharing the house with ants,
It looks like they are behind the skirting boards next to the kitchen by an interior wall-does any body know how to get rid of these pests for good :eek:

Talon_Karrde

hello!
you can buy various things to deal with ants. Liquid sprays or powders i have found work best, but none are good around small kids/ pets etc. Obviously the sprays are ok once dry, but powders are best used outside for obvious reasons.
you can also use a little yellow box where you poke through little holes in either side and place on the "ant trail" then they walk through it and it does its job!

as long as you follow them back to where they actually come from and target there, they should disappear pretty quick, although, you may get a recurrence in summer!

Mr_Warren_2

Ants can travel a long way from their nest. Putting powder down will only deal with those you see, the nest might not get affected. I would be methodical in trying to find where the nest is (removing floor boards and/or skirting boards) although being a new house it is much likely that your floor will be large chipboard pannels (not easy to lift). Once you have found the nest, poor boiling water on it/in it and that will be the end of it. Alternatively, ants do not like lemon juice so sprinkle that and see if they change their habits.

robowen

Get yourself some stuff called "nipon"
I think that's what its called. Long time since I used it. Not even sure if its still around.

Its like a gel in a small tube. You place several dots of the stuff around and cover them with small bits of glass or leaves, the ants find it, tastes like nectar to them.

They take it back to the nest and the whole nest is destroyed.

Flamethrower was my second choice !!

Jay-Jay_4

We get ants too. In the summer we are plagued and then they turn into big flying ones

I phoned the pest control chap at environmental health for some advice. As our nest is underneath a concrete path he advised against trying to dig it up as "it could be the size of a football...or the size of a car" :eek:

So we've blocked up all the entry points, around our front door and window, with silicone from B&Q. I then went around the skirting boards with Raid. I also bought some ant 'traps' from Asda (small green disks with poison nectar in).

I found that the powder didn't really work but the Raid leaves a residue on any surfaces that it touches and this residue continues to kill them for a few weeks afterwards, they also walk it back to the nest.

If I were you I would squirt LOADS of raid all around the skirting boards and inside any little holes where they could be coming in, then fill all the gaps with silicone. Then lay some of those ant traps and watch the site carefully. Keep spraying the area and watch out for them finding an alternative route in.

Good luck....I'll be in the same boat in a few weeks!

Quackers

robowen wrote:

Get yourself some stuff called "nipon"
I think that's what its called. Long time since I used it. Not even sure if its still around.

Its like a gel in a small tube. You place several dots of the stuff around and cover them with small bits of glass or leaves, the ants find it, tastes like nectar to them.

They take it back to the nest and the whole nest is destroyed.

Flamethrower was my second choice !!

This is what I was going to suggest. I haven't used it for a few years though - we moved! I remember that I got mine from woolworths. It did the trick every year for us. Like Jay Jay said once you've got them they keep on coming back - little buggers!

It was so good that I didn't have to bother with the flamethrower

Sarahsaver

Can i have some pleeeeeze?
My kids got one of those ant farms for xmas and u havent seen a single ant to capture and put in it yet!

robowen

Quackers wrote:

It was so good that I didn't have to bother with the flamethrower

Chemicals are so boring... they are like a silent assasin, and take a while to do the job and you don't see anything.

Flamethrower is much more fun... INSTANT DEATH TO ALL CREEPY CRAWLIES !!



"PLEASE REMEMBER TO USE PROTECTIVE CLOTHING WHILST USING FLAMETHROWER AND SEEK PROFESSIONAL ADVICE FROM THE MILITARY"

lol lol

Party_Animal

angeleyes wrote:

:eek:
Can anybody please help
we have recently moved into our house and we have just discovered we are sharing the house with ants,
It looks like they are behind the skirting boards next to the kitchen by an interior wall-does any body know how to get rid of these pests for good :eek:

Your lucky its just Ants and not Decs

Cullumpster

Lol

I'm sure i read somewhere that ants don't like Paprika or pepper, maybe you could try the 'non chemical' way, bless um..













If not a good old fashioned kettle of boiling water on the buggers always works for me !!!

Hannah2

My parents have/had a lot of problems with ants as the soil/ground is very sandy. They found the Nipon gel to be the best thing to use, just put dots of it on old jam jar lids in the places where you see the ants. They swarm to it and then tootle off back to the nest never to be seen again!
The other thing that seems to work well, although it sounds rather silly, is to paint around the house, where the wall of the house meets the ground (path or tarmac or whatever) with creosote (spelling?), just in a stripe about 5cm wide. Believe it or not you can actually see the ants run up to the stripe and turn around, they will not pass over it. This seemed to greatly reduce the numbers gaining entry to the house. Dont know if this is advisable if you have pets though, dont think creosote is pet friendly!