slugs in the house!!!!

Teria

I don't normally have a problem with live slugs, but the other day there was one slithering up the window, and it had hundreds of minute THINGS crawling all over it. That made me feel really sick!
We have hundreds in our porch. I don't mind them though, because it attracts hedgehogs, two or three turn up every night for their supper. They also finish whatever food the cats haven't eaten during the day. They're lovely to watch!

Money_saving_Diva_2

I love hedgehogs but haven't seen one round here for a long time. I would willingly leave my slugs alone if they were feeding a cute hedgehog!!

lhd4

It got so bad in our house at one point that i used to wake up in the middle of the night, wake my husband (he didn't thank me) and go into the kitchen to collect the slugs and throw them out. I couldn't do it because they scare me ( i once Thought that someone threw a slug at me, turned out to be a chip but it was still scary!!) i even started dreaming about them for a short time, i also squished one with my little toe in the middle of the night as i didn't see it which is when i think i became a little obsessional. ; )

mummybunny_2

We had slugs in our lounge just after we moved into out house. It wasnt until my son decided to flood our downstairs (downstairs bathroom!) that we discovered we had wet rot in our lounge. Turned out it was really bad and we were lucky that the floor hadnt collapsed! They removed the slugs before replacing the floor boards but still get the odd few the more we get rid of the less we see them. Horrible things lol

maypole

Andie2308 wrote: »

My gosh that is really awful. We moved into our house in February this year and i've never seen them inside but our fairly small garden is completely overun with them I have battled on with slug and snail killer all spring and summer and pick lots of dead ones out of the garden daily but more still come. I've even ripped up big bushes in the garden to they can't hide underneath. We've had them climbing up the side of the house and hiding in the door lock I really hope this isn't the next thing we'll have or else I think we'll have to move although to be bullied out of your house by slugs seems a bit OTT I hate them!!!

They are so good at hiding. When I emptied some pots to refill with new compost, there were a few on the inside bottom of the pot, they must sneak out at night then back to hide during the day. I sometimes go out at night with my rubber gloves on and catch them! Never had them inside though.

Imani

I live ina privately rented house, it suffers from damp. enviromental health claimed it was condensation. we cook with the kitchen door open and the window otherwise the walls sweat. you can smell damp. throughout the kitchen and throughout the house. the rent is even going up

i went to warm a baby bottle to find slugs in my kitchen. it was sooooo big. i sprinkled salt around the edges to stop them going elsewhere. I wonder if my landlord can do something. I noticed that the wall at the back where the sink and washer is I can see what looks like dirt or well its just not sealed at all

i mopped the floor and went out today and came back kitchen floor still wet. looks like it has been sweating.

have seen slugs in kitchen on and off.

if slug pellets dont work not sure what will

slug pellets and salt

waggys

We had them in a previous house. Kept finding slug trails when we came downstairs each morning; then we had a baby and were having to get up in the night to get a bottle and would find 5 or 6 huge fat slugs rampaging through the kitchen each night - throwing salt on them was immensly satisfying at the time!

We then discovered when we refitted the kitchen that they were coming in through a gap in the floor under the sink where the water pipe was. New concrete around the pipe sorted the little sh1ts out!

Ria8

OH NO!!! I've made the awful mistake of putting down pellets in my house ( They've been coming up through the floorboards so I assumed putting pellets down between them would deter them....looks like it's going to be slug party at my house tonight!:mad:

taffygirl

I have (of hopefully had) a real problem with slugs in the house at night in the damp weather, which we are getting a lot of!

somebody gave me the tip that, for some reason i don't understand, they can't slime their way over WD40, so a quick squirt of that around the outside of my house and all other suspected entry points and, touch wood, it seems to have worked. such a relief, but still make sure i wear shoes around my house in the middle of the night just in case!!

and unlike salt, WD40 doesn't wash away in the rain.

a border of wd40 is supposed to keep the blighters away from plant pots and borders in the garden as well.

very handy stuff that WD40 :j

taffygirl

also, oldham council have a very handy fact sheet on slugs in the house. must be a particular problem there!

http://www.oldham.gov.uk/ocfs-env-epeh60s.pdf

good to know that slugs can't survive indoors, so once you find a way to stop them getting in, they're gone.