Where are the bloody things coming from??

[Sez1990]

Woodlice!
It’s been months and months, I always have at least three downstairs every day (I put them outside when I see them) but more appear during damp weather. I hoovered yesterday but after a rainy night I’ve got four dead and six alive this morning.
How are they getting in?? House is fairly recently decorated so no cracks or drafty bits. Can’t see any holes outside or suspicious gatherings/poop inside. But they seem to be multiplying and eating… something 🤔. So if you’ve had a wood louse problem, where were they getting in?

In houses, woodlice primarily eat decaying and damp organic matter, such as rotting wood, mildew, fungi, and dead plant material. They are attracted to moisture and will feed on anything decomposing and damp, though they do not damage living wood structures. They may also eat other decaying materials, like dead insects, (quote from google)

Start looking at leaking pipes/guttering and replacing rotten skirting boards etc. Woodlice can be very good indicators that there is something very wrong with your house so get investigating. Silverfish are also another warning sign. Repair your house and both will vanish of their own accord.

OP has just said the house is fairly recently decorated, so presumably would have spotted damp and rotting skirting boards no?

Probably rotten floorboards or a leak in a cupboard. We had them keep appearing in our kitchen sink - found a very slight leak and rotting cupboard right at the back.

Purs gather underneath the skirting board just inside the front door. They bumble around that small area just and dont bother us so we leave them be - we only have an occasional body though so not as much of an issue as you seem to have.

I dont think recent decorating will exclude the issue of gaps they could be getting through as much as you think though

I have spent the last two years completely renovating an old stone cottage. I've repaired or replaced the doors, windows, architraves and all other woodwork, redecorated and installed heating, wood burner, insulation, new carpets.

Still have as many woodlice (called granfers where I'm from) as I did on day 1.

I think it's just the stone of the cottage, little nooks and crannies even I don't know about and the granfers wanting to come in out of the cold and wet. I dustpan and brush them out but still they come. If you don't have a modern, sealed house with UPVC type sealed units I just think they're a thing.

Woodlice are crustaceans and are related to prawns. They can be cooked and eaten.😂

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@barskits You could get a good meal off of some of the buggers I get in my cottage. The size of them!

No, surprisingly not. Putting up wallpaper doesn't stop drips from underfloor pipes from happening or rising damp. The skirting board could be rotten on the inside (next to the damp wall) rather than the bit that gets painted. She also stated no cracks or draughts but most houses need ventilation especially at floor level. If she's caulked between floor and skirting then that could create a major problem. The woodlice are a symptom of an unhappy house and not the cause.

We get woodlice near a door which clearly has a bit of rot in the frame. Not sure it can be solved without replacing the door and frame so we cohabit for now.

Enjoy! 😂😂

I will start collecting them and could feed the whole family a nice crunchy dinner by the weekend!!

I have UPVC windows and doors so nothing to rot there. I’m very houseproud so know every inch of the house and thought I would’ve noticed damp but now worried it might be somewhere like under the floor. Skirting boards all seem fine and not sealed to the floor.
I think I have narrowed it down to near the gas meter, but there are no open holes around the pipe outside so still quite confused (and now concerned about floor)

We are inundated with them. I probably vacuum up about 30 every day and they just come back. We don't have any rotting floorboards/skirtings - they just seem to love our house and we live among them.