Re:- Slugs in house, yuk!

Abbafan1972

Do any of you have any experience of slugs coming into the house?

We have 2 airbricks outside the lounge and think they are coming in through there, when we come down of a morning we can see the trail on the carpet. It only seems to happen during the night and then they go into hiding during the day, we have moved the furniture to see if any are hiding under there but nothing.

Very rarely I see one in the house in the daytime (small baby ones) and I immediately get rid of it.

Is there anything I can do about this please?

katy54

I had this -put slug pellets inside the airbricks -or salt on the floor immediately underneath the airbricks .

jc808

used to get this in my bathroom it was a bodged soil pipe exit

theyll be getting in somehow - try putting cctv on overnight with motion sensors*

*OPTIMISTIC

damperman

Make sure all the gaps in the skirting boards to wall and floor are filled.

Frogletina

Abbafan1972 wrote: »

Do any of you have any experience of slugs coming into the house?

Is there anything I can do about this please?

One piece of advice - don't walk about in bare feet :eek:

jackomdj

We lived in an old house and started getting slugs in the kitchen. We had an old dirt cellar, eventually we discovered a leak in a pipe which meant the cellar had flooded (it wasn't particularly accessible) which made it ideal slug conditions. Once the leak was sorted and the water sorted our slug problem went.

DRP

Frogletina wrote: »

One piece of advice - don't walk about in bare feet :eek:

Yes I screamed like a 5 year old when i stepped on a slug barefoot in a dark kitchen.

Basically our solution (*touches wood*, was:
1) Added extra ventilation under the floor - also ensure there is fine mesh on our air bricks.
2) remove the damp environment from under our floorboards - this took a year of lifting every floorboard, digging out and removing all the damp rubble debris, organic matter (rotten wood) and soil.

Fingers crossed this has solved the issue (and is good for preventing damp in the house in general). We haven't seen a slug this year, whereas last year I saw them all over the kitchen - diner floor, on the worktops and climbing up the walls and over our coats which were hung up on hooks !!

The previous owners lived here for 15 years with their 2 babies/kids, and apparently did nothing about the damp, slugs and smell .... some people.

beaker141

damperman wrote: »

Make sure all the gaps in the skirting boards to wall and floor are filled.

I would never believe the size of gap these slimeballs can get through, had I not seen it with my own eyes.


I caught one halfway through the 45 deg mitre joint around a bay window - there was barely any gap at all 1-2mm at the absolute maximum.


I also caught one sliding out from the kitchen plinth that was sitting on the floor, so again, barely any gap at all.

TBagpuss

If you can work out where they are coming in then put salt down.

They also don't like crossing copper - you can buy copper tape (usually sold to put round plant pots) and use this as a barrier. Perhaps along all sides of the airbrick would work in your case

davholla

TBagpuss wrote: »

If you can work out where they are coming in then put salt down.

They also don't like crossing copper - you can buy copper tape (usually sold to put round plant pots) and use this as a barrier. Perhaps along all sides of the airbrick would work in your case

You have to keep it clean.