SLUGS in THE HOUSE - UUURRRGGGHH (merged threads)

determined_new_ms

That really made me laugh, I needed it today!

JoJoB

I had this problem over the last year and my kitchen is on the third floor! :eek:

Oh it's horrible. Getting up for a glass of water in the middle of the night and feeling your foot brush against something wet and slimy... bleurgh!!!!!! They would be everywhere then gone in the morning. God, it's so repellent it makes me shudder thinking about it.

I figured they must be coming up the drainpipe and through the kitchen wall somehow. There were a couple of gaps in the wall which i plugged up. I also put some new lino down on the kitchen floor cos the old stuff was a bit worn and there were places where they could have come in through the floor. They have not been back since thank goodness.

It's a case of plugging all the gaps and not leaving food out in the kitchen I guess. They love beer don't they? I bet they were after nearly empty cans of stella my OH carelessly left on the side. :mad:

libbidf

Slug pub!!!!

I use them in my garden all the time and they really work. A bit of ale in a container (i use the tops off aerosol cans as you can throw them straight in the bin rather than washing them out) and a bit of ale inside. For some reason the slugs go straight to it, take a sip and fall in (like a lot of people I know!!!).

At least they die happy!

The_Economist

libbidf wrote: »

Slug pub!!!!

I use them in my garden all the time and they really work. A bit of ale in a container (i use the tops off aerosol cans as you can throw them straight in the bin rather than washing them out) and a bit of ale inside. For some reason the slugs go straight to it, take a sip and fall in (like a lot of people I know!!!).

At least they die happy!

Cheap beer does the trick too. I had loads eating my veg in green house and put some beer in a tub, next day it was full of them. Problem solved. :T

indiegirl_2

I think I have a slug infestation in my house... but I can't work out how, why, or where they're coming from!

It started with two or three in the kitchen, where we appear to be missing some plaster off of the wall behind the stopcock under the sink. The slugs would somehow appear under the kitchen sink, yet I couldn't work out where they were coming from (the kickboards under the cupboards have no spaces around them). I can only think that they're getting in from the back garden through an airbrick into the kitchen.

They disappeared for a few weeks, but lo and behold, I've just walked upstairs onto the landing, and one was crawling along the carpet! The stairs and landing are very separate from the kitchen.

Is it possible for slugs to live in the cavity? Should I pull my carpets up to see if there are any obvious gaps? What could I do to stop more arriving??

Oblivion

Slugs in a house are not usually an 'infestation' in the way ants, cockroaches and other creepie-crawlies can be regarded.

Cavity walls and air-bricks are a possible means of access for slugs, but usually not in significant numbers, and especially not in a summer as wet as we've had this year, when the gardens are providing all the moisture they need.

Do you have pets, a dog or a cat? With so many slugs and snails in the garden this year, you will often find them attaching themselves to a pet, who then walks them into your house.

Dave.

indiegirl_2

A fair point, perhaps not an infestation as such...

We have no pets, there's just me and the OH here and neither of us have been through grass / in the garden today, and neither have been out the back of the house at all. We do appear to have quite a lot of slugs in the garden and the grass grows right up to the kitchen wall.

I found the one upstairs the most odd, if I'm honest; crawling across the landing. No windows have been open today, although the slug trail suggested that it had come from the edge of the carpet from the back wall of the house, which was what led me to question whether it had come up from downstairs, somehow (a persistent climber!)

Oblivion

Well I have witnessed slugs climbing up three or four floors in a block of flats. I think their single brain cell gets confused into thinking 'up must be good'. Strange creatures.

Just another possibility ... have you asked for a valuation of your property recently? Slugs and estate agents are often hard to tell apart. :rotfl:

Dave.

maninthestreet

Slugs are pest this time of the year - one followed me around all day last week.

MrsE_2

Salt!!!!!!!

Stuff salt in every crack & crevis you can & then fill with filler.