I am sick of slugs INSIDE my house!

[MrsSeanBean]

We have a 1920s brick house.

Slugs somehow get inside the house - mainly at night - and I come down to their horrible slimy trails all over the floor every morning.

I called the pest control people at the council who advised me to lay cracked eggshells outside the air-bricks, but still the problem persists. Aside from laying pellets inside the house (dodgy), I don't know what else to do. Sometimes I come down in the night to get a glass of water and find the slugs crawling around. My patience and sanity is wearing very thin.

(a) Does anyone else have this hideous problem;
(b) if so, how did you solve it?

Great idea re; flour!!!

We have stripped wood flooring all over the house though, with numerous gaps and crevices, so would need to apply a fair bit. Might pop some slug pellets down between the gaps too.

My only reservation with that is we are also currently being invaded by mice, who are in their element ducking and diving in and out of the floorboards (amazingly they can squeeze through the narrowest of spaces). I'd hate for them to eat the pellets, die of poisoning, and then have to endure the stench of decomposing rodent wafting up from beneath the floor. Arrrrghh!!! That really would pose a serious health risk.

Oh well. I may be losing the battle, but I haven't lost the war.
Slugs and mice be warned - I shall not be beaten!!!!

We have a kitchen slug problem-very old house.I sweep salt into the quarry tile grout next to the skirtings,and under the kirkboards and that seems to help.I shut the bathroom window (upstairs)in the dark one night and stuck my hand in a long one that was camouflaged in the black seal of the window!!!URRRRGH!!!

Also helps to leave a light on!

I am having a problem with slugs now! I had them at my old house but it didn't bother me cz i knew how they got in (huge gap under the front door) but now I have no idea! Just wake up to trails on the morning so last night I opened the curtains to find 4 slugs making their way up my patio doors! They got thrown outside. Today I've put salt all around the bottom of the doors, checked now before I go to bed to find 4 more slugs making their way up my doors! Wish I knew how they were getting in :(

I have these little, fat, grotesque monsters. If I find any I pick them up in a wad of paper and stick them in the green waste bin outside - it's party heaven for them and they do not return. Bit like dung beetles loving dung!

I didn't realise this was such a common problem. I live in a ground floor flat (moved from an upstairs one). So far have only come across two slugs in my bathroom, which seems mild now at the side of the stories I've read on here but slugs have freaked me out since I was kid and the lad next door but one used to chase me with them. The first time I saw one I was taking off my make up looking in the bathroom mirror, I'd just had the flat painted, lilac paint on the bathroom walls, a smallish bathroom and I saw this horrible slug crawling up the wall right next to the mirror! I refused to go back in the bathroom for the rest of the night, next morning I felt relieved to see the damned thing had disappeared but then it dawned on me that it still had to be somewhere in the flat and I was constantly on edge. I had nightmares of the thing crawling around in my bed. Then one night I was watching the telly and saw the little devil crawling across my hallway, I put a load of salt on it, watched it shrivel then heaved as I chucked it outside on a shovel.

The next time it happened I saw something behind the loo, I thought I had dropped a lipstick or something and when I looked closer it was a slug. I texted a male friend of mine who came round in no time and picked it up with one of my face wipes and chucked it outside. I can't bear to touch them myself, not even with a tissue or a wipe. Awful things, I'd rather have spiders in my flat than those things.

I've got them in my new house too - the revolting bastards They even got inside my fridge! I sprinkle salt periodically, and I have a salt barrier along the back door. I try to keep the kitchen clean so there isn't any food out to attract them, but I have a toddler so is isn't easy. Damp rental house, not much I can do except move. Bastards.

I have just looked mumsnet up for this same problem - last night I happily stepped into our dark hallway barefooted and squelched a big fat slug into the carpet. It was gross and keeps revisiting me (the memory not the slug) today. yuk.

*If you have hard floors you can track your slugs. By sprinkling flour on the floor overnight,you'll see the trails where they came in!

They you have to clean up the flour, of course :-(*

I'm going to try this tonight. Thanks.

Thank God! I thought I was the only one having this problem and its been following me from house to house!! Can't STAND the sight of the little horrors and they keep getting into my kitchen. Have to let hubby do the removing, the thought of touching them turns my stomach-literally! And it's worse since my LO started to crawl-she's into everything & pokes anything that catches her attention-URGH!! Am trying the salt tonight fingers x'd!! Found a huge one in my dishwasher. Nearly threw up! Help!

Moved house 6 weeks ago and there are slugs in my lounge; only seen a couple but there is that distinctive silvery trail in the morning. Yuck! Made worse by the fact that I'm sleeping in there on a sofabed! Have tried salt round the skirting boards. Does the copper work? Help!!

I've just tried the copper tape you can get for plant pots and it seems to have half worked and half not. I found some slime across it in one place! But there was quite a lot less slug slime on the kitchen floor so might be worth trying. Good luck!

I am getting slugs in my living room their slime is staining my carpet how can I stop them

I have tried the copper tape I have that all round the base of the fire place , but still they come I have a little dog and slug slime is dangerous to them

There is a barrier that is made of cotton with copper running through it but that is for gardens maybe I will try that ,have also heard that you put a saucer of beer down they are drawn to the smell ,what to do for the best

That don't work leaving the light on cause I was watching telly and saw one nr the tell

we have a slug problem in our bathroom ,called in pest controller . He put down some powder ,completely non toxic which he proved by eating some. Apparently it dries them up . We shall see ?! Will report back.

I have slugs for the first time in 16 years in this house. I am going to try the following. You know when you put your tongue on a battery it tingles if it still has a charge in it?
Ok, so stretch two wires connected to a battery ( 9v maybe? ) along the area where you think they are coming from. When they try to walk over the wires, they get a shock, and turn back, defeated by science.
A lot less messy than salt, and I refuse to give slugs beer, as I prefer to drink it myself.

Slugs don't like salt plus it's safe where children are.

i cant find where the slugs come in i have wall to wall carpeting but every morning in the middle is silvery strands at christmas had visiters and slept on setee 2am nearly stood on 1 why is thier slime only in the middle of he room ?......

i have wall to wall carpeting but still get the buggers evry morning in the middle of my siiting room silvery slivers and at christmas had visitors so i slept on the sofa and at 2 am nearly stood on 1 i had a torch to see where i was going i picked it up with a tissue and out the window i cant find where they are coming from all my doors are bloked and its only the middle you can see signs ....

I had slugs,I also had damp. Since the damp problem was sorted we have had no slugs.

I'm so glad this post exists! I recently moved into a Victorian house and started seeing like silvery trails on the carpet, had no idea what it was until I looked it up as likely to be slugs. Just found my first one tonight in the kitchen it was so gross :( I salted that bugger and it was still moving so I sprayed kitchen cleaner on it that seemed to finish the job. There are cracks all over my house so I don't know where to start :( but so paranoid about finding them in my shoes etc after some of these posts!

There are done good tips here I think I'll start with salting some of the cracks and hope that works.

Someone please tell me you don't get them upstairs ?!? ??

Oh my god I was sleeping in my living room on a sofa bed for a month I'm so glad I didn't know about the slugs then or I wouldn't have ever slept :(

Oh and I also have parachuting slugs as the trails start and end in the middle of the carpet