dare I say this - have just been in the kitchen and it is full of ANTS -ewwww!

[gigglewitch]

Have spread this revolting stuff called "nippon ant powder" everywhere - but any more suggestions for me? There are trails of them marching across my walls

[IlanaK]

What type of ants? Are they black or are they tiny and red in colour?

[plantsitter]

Urgh we had this once. Vacuumed them up and put a thin seal of blu-tack round where the floor and walls met, which seemed to do the trick.

[plantsitter]

(as well as the ant powder).

[BuckBuckMcFate]

Get an Ant Stop trap. I had ants coming in through the front bay window a few months ago and they were all gone (and have not returned!) within 24 hours

[gigglewitch]

Thanks for replies.

they are common ordinary (revolting) black ones - it's the vast number of the flippin things that's alarming.

right. shopping list for tomorrow : blu tack , ant stop traps, more revolting powder

[cornsilk]

I used to have them every bloody year. I blasted them with nippon and eventually they moved out. Little feckers.

[gigglewitch]

am just so at it. ewwww they are makin me feel all itchy

[lucykate]

what you need is nippon ant killer, it's a liquid. only true way of getting rid is to kill off the nest. see if you can trace where they are coming from, put a ring of ant powder down to contain them, the place the ant killer within the ring. they need to eat it and take it back to the nest.