Slugs in the house

[ettiketti]

How the hell are they getting in, why just the utility room, why only in the night and why have they started bringing their mates along?!
Assume I can put something down to kill deter the slimy beasts?!

Yuck! Same here too but tends to be really wet nights. I got a roll of copper tape from eBay that I put I the floor where I thought they were getting in. It worked a treat and better than having to clean up salt. The tape doesn't last but once I took it up the blighters seemed to have got the message.

Water leak probably, might be behind the sink or under the floor. You can scatter slug pellets under kitchen units and around airbricks.

I used to live in a house with a downstairs bathroom, and whenever it rained, there would be slugs all over the bathroom floor. God, that was depressing.

I assume your utility room is by the back door? Those buggers can squeeze through the unlikeliest gaps. Not sure why they're only in your utility room, unless you have metallic floor trim at your internal doorways. They're nocturnal animals really, that's why they show up at night.

Copper tape sounds like the answer to me, too. Or maybe a tame hedgehog to act as a bouncer.

They do not like to go into dry places, so find out why it is damp. They will get through gaps in walls where pipes have been badly fitted.

Thank you!
Olllld house and the main water pipe comes in/out behind the sink, so although not visibly damp, could easily be gaps and moisture. Not heard of copper tape but will get that and pellets! Cheers!

I'm in a maisonette with a flat underneath me and had awful trouble with them for awhile. Salt got rid of them, fortunately though they were coming in through the communal access panel into my boiler cupboard so carpeting it with salt with the gaps under the kitchen kickboards filled was enough to get rid of them.