Matthew Durkin wrote:
:: ...I'm not kidding!
:: Every night 1 or 2 slugs appear from seemingly nowhere and crawl
:: around all over the floor in my hallway, dining room and louge.
:: The floors are stripped wood so I guess they might be able to get
:: through a small crack somewhere. I thought if I waited a while
:: they'd die - lack of food. No such luck.
:: Every morning there's not a sign of them, other than the slime
:: they leave all over the floor, rugs etc. So far they don't seem to
:: have got to any of my houseplants.
:: Last night one climbed up a chair and onto my suit jacket that was
:: over the chair. Now it is war - they have gone too far!!
::
:: But how can I get rid of them? I can hardly start laying slug
:: pellets around my floors! Is there something I can put down
:: they'll be attracted to that will then kill them that's not messy
:: all over my house?
:: Help!!
::
:: P.S. It might be snails, but you'd think I'd be able to find the
:: damn thnigs if it is!!

My guess is that it's slugs, and they are probably coming in through the
front door...at the bottom, where the door closes, is a storm cill, which
the door closes against...any rain driving against the outside of the door
drains away through two pre-drilled holes in the face of it at it's lowest
point, it can't get back into the house because the bottom is sloped towards
the exterior...IME, these holes are being used as entrance holes and the
slugs are coming through, underneath the bottom of the door and into your
house, they are probably getting out the same way.
My suggestion is to put crushed eggshells or even slug pellets in this metal
cill, until of course you can fit a strip of rubber or even aluminium to the
bottom of the door to seal the gap under the door when it's closed. (most
storm cills have one fitted but this rarely lasts long with people
continually walking over it.)


HTH