We have a nightmare amount of slugs in our house - Victorian terrace with just earth underneath the floorboards. Does anyone know how we can get rid of them without putting down a fitted carpet (we have bare boards).
Father wears his Sunday best
Mother's tired she needs a rest
The kids are playing up downstairs
Sister's sighing in her sleep
Brother's got a date to keep
He can't hang around
Anyway, to be serious - slugs don't live indoors for more than a couple of days, but they're getting in somehow. You need to seal floorboards, cracks around skirting boards, window frames and so on. No need to poison them if you just prevent them from coming in. If your floorboards are placed directly onto earth, they need sealing anyway, because otherwise you'll get other creepy crawlies in - such as ants. x
Urrgghh..I once went to view a house-late Victorian.......and the kitchen carpet (yes-carpet) was covered in slime trails!! I suppose a fair number of houses built at that time did not have cellars or the type of foundations modern builds would.
Sorry-not the most useful answer-I know!