Slaters in the lounge!

[Lagoonablue]

How do I get rid! Only noticed them since new carpet fitted. Only 1 or 2 but still horrid. Obviously they are coming in under the skirting or somewhere bit can't see where. What can I do?

Slaters?

Woodlice :-)

Doesn't everyone call them Slaters??????

I've never heard of slaters. Thought it was an autocorrect mistake.

No advice sorry just admiring the colloquialism.

Baby armadillos?

No advice either, except that they like damp places and are harmless.

I was hoping handsome builders......
Seriously, don't think they are a problem. You probably won't get anymore. Though make sure you don't have damp areas.

they eat damp and rotten wood. Outside the kitchen and bathroom, where there might be plumbing leaks, if you do not have a stock of logs for a woodburner, look for leaks around doors, windows and radiators. Examine airbricks to see that the underfloor void is well ventilated, and water is not running towards the house from wrongly-sloping paving or shed roofs.

Thanks all

I remember seeing lots of slaters indoors around our rotting wooden window frames when I was a kid. Certainly harmless in themselves, but a red flag about something possibly serious.

No the windows are fine. Will investigate round the front of house. May be coming in through an airbrick?

I thought this was a not so stealth boast about Nigel Slater coming for lunch .

They're called slaters in Oz. Didn't know they were called slaters anywhere in the UK.

Crabb - oh yes