Slimey little feckers coming in the house! (Sl*** #vomit)

[ShelaghTurner]

I can't even type the word....vomit.... Slimey revolting brown things, homeless snails... We know they're coming in under the front door. We've put down copper tape and pellets under the doorstep but the little bastards are still coming in shoes etc covered in trails, ugh ugh ugh.

Anyone know how to get rid of them? Before we have to move house!

Salt and bi carb layer 1" thick

Fit a draft excluder to the bottom of the door to stop them getting in. Give your doorstep and surrounding area a really good scrub - slugs are like ants - they follow the trails...

Pretty well every house has slugs - as more or less every house has rats in nearby sewers/gardens/etc etc.

(Not helped by people bringing in pots of plants without checking the source and extra slug species establishing: I found some great big (8 inches) red and black things in the front garden last year. Next door is given to bringing in pretty flowers in pots to go on top of their existing shambles and then flinging a handful of slug pellets down occasionally as some sort of sop to their conscience.)

You just deal with them to keep them in check. My own garden has very few left and the beer traps are actually rather good at catching the real small ones. Oh - and watch what you plant in the garden. Slugs have strong likes and dislikes for types of plants.

See if you can convince a hedgehog to hibernate in your garden. They'll disappear like no tomorrow then.

My parents had one decide to hibernate in their garage, so they vanished from the front garden (the shits were coming in through a gap in the door).
They relocated it to down near the greenhouse when it was warmer and pretty much lived down there for a few years. Had a great meal out of them.

I never use slug pellets because I worry about poisoning anything that might eat the slugs but I do use beer traps in the garden and they seem to work well. I tried grit and egg shells but they just crawled straight through - this is Yorkshire though, we may have particularly hardy slugs

Beer trays outside, a layer of salt around the house and just inside the door.
DH laughed the first time I did it and asked if I had watched the spiderwick chronicles too many times. It worked though, never had them inside since.

PS - and buy cheap beer. I don't think slugs are that particular about the brand but they do like it fresh. (Or if you have a nearby hostelry that you're on good terms with, a jug of the slops from their beer trays should do fine. (And might be free, even.))

My in-laws have this problem in their kitchen (which is unfinished and has been that way for years.) They come up between the gap in backsplash and the wall by the sink and I assume must be hanging out in the cupboard under the sink. I have mastered the art of being the first in the shower in the morning on work days, so that by the time I get out my FIL has woken up and gone downstairs, so if there are any he deals with them. I hate slugs, they make me want to puke. (And they never used to bother me until I lived here, funny that!) There are always slug trails everywhere (including over the George Foreman grill. shudder)

We've got them too, but I worry about using slug pellets or salt because of the cats. We could get rid of some of the clutter wsiting to go to the tip by the back door, but unfortunately our bibs and our log store are all in fairly close proximity. I've got a short section of guttering, I might put pellets under that outside the back door and weigh it down with slabs I think.

bins not bibs!