slugs in the house!!!!

A question about : slugs in the house!!!!

for a few weeks now in our lounge when we come in the room in the morning there has been what looks like a slugs trail on the floor which we thought couldnt possibly be a slug but we were still puzzled till i went in their in the early hours and found a big slimy slug in the middle of the room i got rid of it but we have seen another trail now and im really puzzled now.i thought maybe 1 but 2 or more what the hell????where did they come from and how did they survive for a week or so??? any slug experts in the house?

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• we had the same in my uncles kitchen - there were hundreds of slug trails, they were even down the walls outside. We cleaned up the kitchen and sold the house. a bit drastic for you I know but thats how we dealt with it!! Sorry Im not much help
• hundreds lol i hope its not that extreme
• We had them at our old house, they can squeeze through the smallest hole, in our case a ventilation brick. I found the best thing was to put a layer of salt outside against the wall, as we couldnt block up the hole, and to hoover every day. We moved!!!
• Ive just bought a house and we are having that problem in our kitchen it makes me feel sick. We are thinking they are squeezing up the floorboards under the kitchen units as they were built directly on the floorboards and the plinths(i think thats what they are called) are missing.
• I usually get some baby ones in my living room in the spring. They seem to come through the ventilation brick and I find them for about a week or so until I've caught them all. As much as I hate them and the slime, I'm always intrigued how they survive and grow, the first day they are so tiny you can hardly see them, then, every day that I find them, they are bigger and bigger - yuck (At least they don't venture out much, I always find them in the same area!)
  This year is the first time, that we got them in the autumn as well, but only for 3 days, it's been clear since then.
  I don't want to move, my house is too nice, so I'll try the salt outside the ventilation brick tomorrow.
• hi i had the same prob, loads of em, i used salt around the outside walls & in my kitchen over night, as well as slug killer all outside, hard work & next day there was dead slugs every where, i had to wash the slabs in my garden, hard work, but it worked! havent seen 1 since!!
• I spotted one a fortnight go on the middle of the living room floor!
  Then last week spotted it's trail...... up the wall, the cornicing around a wee bit of the ceiling then back down, taking in a picture on the way - how on earth did it do that and we never even noticed!!! Think it has came in a wee gap under my French doors - put salt down there as so far so good - but it is disgusting!!! I will also try the salt outside daily.
• Its normalley a sign of rot or damp in the home, piles of salt as above will kill them off though.
• We used to get them in our dining room, when it rained they climbed up under the step of the patio door and in through a hole in the corner which wasn't sealed. Find when they get in and seal up their entrance.
• My gosh that is really awful. We moved into our house in February this year and i've never seen them inside but our fairly small garden is completely overun with them I have battled on with slug and snail killer all spring and summer and pick lots of dead ones out of the garden daily but more still come. I've even ripped up big bushes in the garden to they can't hide underneath. We've had them climbing up the side of the house and hiding in the door lock I really hope this isn't the next thing we'll have or else I think we'll have to move although to be bullied out of your house by slugs seems a bit OTT I hate them!!!
• We haven't had any for a while touch wood, we used to get them in the kitchen you will be surprised just how narrow a gap they can get in we are talking of a 1mm or 2. We sealed any holes we could find with suitable filler, the beggers even got through the gap between a slate floor, so filled in with grout.
  they normally like dark damp conditions
• we had the same problem a few years ago, lived in a rental property that had subsidence problems (sorry diferential movement the surveryer called it) slugs used to invade the kitchen at night - most unsainetry. i thought it was just us but a friend of the family moved to the other side of the estate and now has slugs coming in through her damp course into the kitchen. never found a way of stopping them we moved eventually..nasty little blighters.
• I've had slugs in two houses that I've lived in. Not sure why you get them in some houses and not in others. We had them in the house that we live in now, when we first moved in, but I put lots of salt down and blocked up anywhere that I thought they might have got in through, and luckily I hav'nt seen them since!
• i am not the only one, it was a few years ago in a house i was renting i used to get up and find trails all over the place it was driving me nuts i looked everywhere and could never find any slugs i even found traile in my cutlery draw
  It must have been weeks later OH found it when he was up late one night it was huge, crawling across the floor, yack makes me feel ill thinking about it.
  i think it was the vents in the bricks because there was one outside near where the cutlery draw was, it was a horrid damp house anyway glad i got out of there.
• I noticed that these slugs are stuck to the bin bags, when I took the bun out from the garden, a couple landed on the carpet. This observation solved my slug problem because I was going mad watching these trails in the morning.
  seb
• Deepest apologies if this has been posted before.
  I have a cat flap for my two darling kitties but when I come down in the morning, their food bowls are gleaming with slug trails, food is slimy etc. Urgh! It's horrible to clean!
  Has anybody any ideas on how to stop/prevent the dreaded slugs slithering in and helping themselves to the cats' food? I'd rather not use any inhumane measures like killing them, just stopping them before sneaking in through the cat flap. It's not practical for me to secure the cat flap at night as I live in a rural area and the kitties will a-hunting go.
  All suggestions very welcome, thank you!
• Smear a ring of ordinary vaseline around the opening, they can't stick to it. Mind you the cat might get some on its fur but it won't do any harm.