I have a slug problem (diagram included)

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Please help me! I am being outsmarted by a slug, or worse and probably more likely, slugs.

I keep waking up to trails on the living room carpet, hallway carpet, on the kitchen bin and even half way up the living room WALL which is above the corner sofa!!! It's gross. Can't work out whether they're coming from the kitchen or hallway.

Reluctant to use salt as I don't want the gew on my carpet if they slither into it, and also it seems abit mean, dissolving them. However if this is the only way then I'll try it.

What time do slugs come out? Tempted to set an alarm in the night to catch them.

I know that finding out where they're coming in is vital BUT, when you find a trail, you don't know if they were going forwards or backwards!? Diagram included to show possible entrances.

Please give me your wisdom - how do I stop this

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@Hawkmoth

Sorry to say, but a childhood friend had them living inside their couch (draughty victorian house).

Are you mental? It's bedtime and you throw that shit out? Ffs I'm creeping already

We get them too. All over the living room rug where DC play 🤢 so I'm hoovering & scribing every morning. Can't find the source at all and like you I don't want to use salt to make a slug puddle 🤢🤢🤢

They went away for a few weeks when the weather got colder but was warmer last night and the trails were back 🤦🏻‍♀️

My husband managed to catch one at 5am a few weeks ago so that's the time they visit us

I used to always get at least one bold ass slug head through the kitchen very late at night. I used to do the salt trick. Then I got sick of that so I powered hosed all around the outside of my home full blast. Then I bleached around, beside and about my back door. After a weeks holiday the back garden grass looks like a slug farm. I cut the grass and then sprinkled 2 whole tubs of slug pellets. That seemed to completely do the trick.

We had them climbing up the outside waste pipe into the sink - horrible horrible things - salt eventually got the buggers !

I’m so relieved I am not the only one who has this problem.

I think they maybe come in on the crocs I wear to put the bin out.

Going to try some of these methods to get rid. How long can they hide inside before dying of hunger / thirst? Or is it new ones all the time? Awful thought as I really hate them. And I am not normally bothered about creepy crawlies things, just horrible slimy slugs.

Aw Jesus. A nest? INDOORS? Bugger off...

The slugs own your house now. Burn it. Burn it all.

I swear the buggers talk to each other and organise a party in my living room. Slug pellets sprinkled down the edge of the carpet (on the wall of the bay window) got rid of them after a few days. I've had a few climbing up the pipe of the kitchen sink recently. More difficult to stop.

Right! I've set an alarm for 4am. I just need to clap eyes on them. I want to know how many and where abouts they're going.

I read on here once that no damp = no slug.

So track down and eliminate any potential humidity and leaks.

They stay INSIDE the house during the day?!?!?!? This is life altering Information.

Is there a fireplace in the living room you haven't put on your diagram? Could they be coming from that?

in my experience they will be hiding in a dampish spot during the day perhaps behind skirting, and come out at night. They will be a different colour to the garden slugs - light brown.

I never kill anything. OK that's a lie. I kill mosquitos because they attack me but slugs ? No. Catch him and put him out. He means no harm.

I have the same problem luckily only in the kitchen! We're trying to damp proof the kitchen extension now. Once they climbed into the lower cupboard and chew a hole in my porridge carton box! Now I store everything in tight sealed containers. The other time I saw one on our clean dishes that I didn't put away for the night! Will try Nematod! Bleach seems to help but only for a day.. it's absolutely awful! Old house I guess....

I put salt around the door frames and killed 3 in one night. But now feel horrible about myself causing them to die in pain, apart from leaving a bit of slime they don't actually bother me enough to kill them

Could you get one of those fox cameras?

We had a leak on the service pipe under the house just before the internal stop tap. There was a loose floorboard in the cupboard under the stairs to make accessing the tap easier. If you didn't put the board back properly they'd climb up the outside of the pipe. One night I left the oven door slightly ajar and found one inside. Not nice!
Got the leak repaired and never saw another one m

Bowl of beer and the fuckers will come out.
They climb inside and drown, at least they go happy.

Copper did nothing to stop my slugs, as they would slime up the copper radiator pipes, from under the floorboards.

It's amazing how flat they can make themselves: I watched mine with fascinated horror as they squish themselves Tooms-stylee to get in under the door.

I don't live there now. Moving works.

How did the 4am wake up go OP?

For a beer trap try this one:
amazon.co.uk/Garland-GAL13ST-Slug-Trap-Green/dp/B000TAQSWA/ref=sr_1_6?dchild=1&keywords=slug+trap&qid=1599982943&sr=8-6]]

We use it outside the front door to try to catch them before reaching the door. Are your doors draught-proofed? If not, they need to be.

I never tried the copper tape, it has mixed reviews. I think you need quite wide tape.
Good luck

You need a teenager who stays up late. Although they may provide you with information like there were two on top of each other last night and one watching.....that was a bit weird and you will never get that out of your brain.

Salt by the washing machine gap seems to have worked though. Fingers crossed.

In a couch😩 oh my days......

Once was rushing to go to work. Didn’t look where l was going and trod on one in bare feet.

After being sick and sitting in a bath of bleach, l crept into work very late. The bastards there all found it hilarious. The horror is still with me years later

We had them coming in through gaps around our patio doors - the last house owners took the beading up from around the edges (because they were deranged, I think) and it basically just let the bastards in. I put slug pellets down in the little gap around the edge of the floor and we got no more slugs.

Which is good, because they slimed my frog and that is unforgivable