Slugs ,slugs everywhere!

Bubbles_0412

Sorry if this is in the wrong place but please can anyone help me stop the slugs invasion I'm experiencing. I absolutely hate them so much and can't get them out of my house. On a daily basis they are in my downstairs shower room - this is an extension within my kitchen extension - I find them crawling up the tiles inside my shower cubicle 🤢 all over the floor between the back door and the shower room, and I've now just discovered one when I took the kick panel off the tumble dryer to empty the water tank - the tumble dryer is also near the back door and shower room. 
Why are they in my house 😭 I've tried salt at the door frames outside, they just congregate outside my back door and my front door, they make me feel sick.
I private rent, is there something wrong with my door frames or something? Anything that can fix this please because I feel like they are taking over my home 😭

Keep_pedalling

I think the problem is your home has a damp problem and this results in fungal growth (even if you can’t see it) which in turn provides a food source for the slugs.

You really need to complain to your landlord.

Annemos

Horrible problem. Makes one afraid to open the door and one is always on alert. 

In my case, I started noticing the problem after my bungalow subsided (Tree Roots). The 1980 thick concrete path then moved away from the kitchen wall by a few millimetres. 

The slugs started coming into the kitchen and I used to go in there at about 11 at night and there they were. (Never had slugs before.)  I could see slug trails with a torch on the back wall near the ground behind the cooker, on that same wall where the path had moved away. 

But what finally solved the problem is this.... brother-in-law did a bit of digging down there and we soon came across the fact that half a brick was missing just below the ground. And there was also a black pipe. 

An owner in the past had removed the brick and put a black alkathene pipe in there, to run an electric cable. The obsolete cable was still in there and presumably was run out from the kitchen to an old shed that used to be in the garden.  

As soon as we removed that pipe and replaced the missing brick, the problem was over. 

So apart from damp, I would also say there might be a gap somewhere in the structure. 

twopenny

I agree, you must have some holes somewhere.

Pipes going through the wall are one possibility. If you have gravel around the walls scrape out to see if there's anything there and if it's damp. 

Air bricks could be. I had a case of ants going in the air brick and eating their way through the concrete floor around the patio doors when I bought this house and invading my living room. But they'd also destroyed the mortar where it was damp under the door frame and gravel drain.

It was a horrible job getting to the problem and remortaring but not difficult.

Grenage

I guarantee the slugs don't want to be there any more than you. 

All you can really do is plug gaps (or ask the landlord to do so).

chrisw

Annemos said:

Horrible problem. Makes one afraid to open the door and one is always on alert. 

Yeah, vicious little things. They sneak up on you then leap for the jugular.

Annemos

Can't stand slugs, spiders, ants, flies...... but love bees.  I used to live in South India. Cockroaches in the flats. 

On balance, snails are nicer than fast-moving cockroaches. 

NorthernKitty

It might not help in your case depending how far they travel each night, but in the last place I rented I had to put those long rubber draft excluder strips right along the bottom of the internal doors, which made the kitchen door a bit hard to open but stopped the slugs getting to my hallway and bedroom. Think they came through from behind the washing machine in that room. My flat also had a drain outside very close to the front door (no steps) and they came out of there and under the front door into the living room, round and round the sofa and out again. I had bright blue slug pellets under my sofa for years, slugs ignored them but it helped me psychologically...

MouldyOldDough

What does the forum think about using Nematodes - not only in situations like this, but generally to reduce the numbers of the slippery things in the garden ?

I used them once, about 15 years ago in the garden and definitely worked for a year (the numbers were greatly reduced for a couple of years)

the_lunatic_is_in_my_head

Annemos said:

 Makes one afraid to open the door and one is always on alert. 

Despite their 27,000 teeth, they won't bite!

Try beer traps OP (some beer in a pot or what have you, preferably tucked in the ground so the rim is at ground level), they do work for catching them.

Baldytyke88

Turn your heating on so that the house drys out and makes it unlivable for slugs.