Slugs Indoors

[Topsyturvy1]

Does anyone know how to stop slugs from coming indoors. I cant find where they are coming in but they seem to love my kitchen and it’s driving me insane. Do the plug in repellent devices work on slugs? Any suggestions welcome
thanks

You’ve fundamentally got a damp problem

We’ve done (in no particular order):

• wall plates, floor boards replaced (twice)
• all holes sealed
• air bricks cleared
• dpc injected
• dehumidifiers
• mechanical under floor ventilation

We STILL get occasional slugs in wet weather

Beer traps etc can help, but there always seem to be more waiting to come in

Only other suggestion is to get a pond and encourage frogs in 🤷🏻‍♀️

Runner Ducks are great slug destroyers, but might not be for everyone. Table salt also works well although it is quite revolting.

I find slugs get in if I leave the back door open of an evening, which I like to do in the summer. Then the gits have parties in the kitchen at night and go all over the cat food bowls. Setting an alarm and coming down at say 2am then surprising them (they party at night) and chucking them out is an annoying process but does work - if anyone has suggestions of how to discourage them from coming in that would be good!

Copper tape. Literally a barrier of it, all the way around the door. It's not tremendously pretty, & it took 2 or 3 days for all the slugs to leave (I can only assume they hide in the house overnight ) but we no longer get slugs, or any evidence of them - occasionally they try their luck & come up the door but can't get any further, & go away. I have a proper fucking horror of them, evil slimy bastards.

Slug tape

I've had this problem for years as live in a very old damp house. I spent so much money on sprays and copper tape etc but actually the best tip ever given to me, that really works, is to fill a spray bottle with salt diluted in water and just liberally spray all around doorways, gaps, cracks, skirting boards etc. Really worked for me. Never saw any shrivelled up slugs so assume it worked enough as a repellent rather than killing them.

Every so often now when I spot a new trail I just spray round again with the salt solution and job done!

I don't have a damp problem, but occasionally get slugs in the kitchen. They can squeeze in the patio doors - pvc, no droughts not a dodgy wooden frame.
After treading on one recently, and catching another in the act of squeezing in, I've put a line of salt on the bottom of the door frame, no more attempts yet afaik.

As you can see by my user name, I’m not a fan of slugs in houses! I’ve had them in my kitchen and also in my downstairs bedroom ( bungalow) and had to treat them differently.

I consider myself an expert in the different methods! Some advice;

Do not leave salt lines touching your skirting boards for several weeks, the salt reacts with them and causes the paint to bubble and eventually ruins the wood! I had to have the skirting boards replaced.

Do not put salt on the bottom of the doorframe, it rusts the metal fixings!

Copper tape does not stop slugs, I have seen them nonchalantly marching over it! Very finely crushed egg shells are better but make sure you clean them thoroughly as otherwise they stink after a while.

In my bedroom last year, I was getting several tiny baby slugs every night squeezing between the edge of the skirting board and the floor boards. I have a 5 ft space underneath my bungalow designed to take any surplus ground water as the estate was built on low lying farm land - the buildings are not damp because of this drainage feature! I realised I needed to do something drastic to be able to sleep in my bed!

So, after trying copper tape, I went on Amazon and got a solution of natural scents to make into a spray with water and sprayed this along the gap every evening - it stank awfully but needs must! I also squished copper mesh down into the gap between the carpet and skirting board then laid a layer of crushed egg shells along it. I slept with a side lamp shining on the floor like a prison camp search light! I removed any I saw and they were disposed of - not in a humane way I’m afraid.

Fortunately after a few weeks, the snail parade stopped, and I have not seen any little critters this year, the copper mesh and egg shells are still in situ, not a pretty sight, but I’m thinking of hoovering it up in a few months. After extensive research of the life cycle of slugs, I think that an adult slug got into my floor space and laid eggs there, apparently hundreds of them at a time! As they hatched, babies began exploring and some ended up in my bedroom! I’m just hoping that as I have not seen any babies this year that slugs are not like frogs and do not return to the same place each year to breed!