Yuck!

[Ihateslugs]

Woke up to see this on my bedroom ceiling! I live in a bungalow so it’s downstairs.

Just as I was wondering how to get it down, it fell off and fortunately landed on the floor rather than my bed! So I was able to scoop it up with some cardboard and chuck it out the back door.

No need to ask why I use this user name! I’ve had a problem of slugs in my bedroom for the past two to three years but this was the first this year - just when I thought the egg shells and copper wire at the edge of my carpet had sorted out the problem!

I think you have to wait to see the photos.

Oh how horrible OP.

I had an problem in a previous home with slugs coming in the back door into the kitchen. And one made it through to the living room once. I more or less sorted the issue by keeping a line of salt along the outside of the threshold to the back door. But I had to be vigilant and keep the salt topped up.

They are disgusting creatures.

I had a few in the kitchen quite a number of years ago and like you, put a line of salt on the threshold. However, I left the salt down too long and it caused the screws in the upvc under the door to go rusty and damaged the wooden skirting board where it touched it! I didn’t realise how caustic salt was over time! I also put some on the floor in front of the fridge and sink as I was not sure where they were coming from. I still get the odd one in the kitchen but I’m not as bothered by them in there, hate them in my bedroom though!

My house is built on old marshy low lying farmland and the water table is quite high so our gardens get very soggy, ideal breeding ground for slugs!

Yes the house where I had the problem was built on an area with , I think, underwater streams or something similar. I know that when I left they were devising plans to improve the land drainage of the area.
My garden was very soggy for quite a lot of the year and was absolutely over run with slugs.

I had no idea that salt could cause damage in the way you describe.

I'm just glad I sold the place, although tbh the problems the slugs caused weren't half as bad as the problems my neighbour caused. He wasn't given the epithet " mad" by a lot of the local residents for nothing.

But I really do sympathise with you finding the horrible things in your bedroom.