Slug slime

[favemuppet]

Any tips for getting slug slime off external (unrendered and unpainted) brickwork?

 

[ladylola]

Never really tried to do it , it just seems to go after a while so I'm assuming that water and a stiff brush should do the trick. After that , or should that be before, try to control the slugs.

 

[jdpjamesp]

Wait for it to dry and brush it off.

We have a nightmare with slugs in our house. They are breeding in the cavity under the floor and come through nooks and crannies into the house each night and leave their trail everywhere. Slowly identifying the cracks they are getting through and filling them with silicone... it's a long job though!

But the one thing we have learned - dry slug slime just brushes/hoovers off.

 

[wotan]

Wait for it to dry and brush it off.

We have a nightmare with slugs in our house. They are breeding in the cavity under the floor and come through nooks and crannies into the house each night and leave their trail everywhere. Slowly identifying the cracks they are getting through and filling them with silicone... it's a long job though!

But the one thing we have learned - dry slug slime just brushes/hoovers off.

squirt some really strong salty water down the crevices, they don't like salt, it makes them disolve.

Wotan

 

[jdpjamesp]

MrsP won't have that. She doesn't want dead ones under the floor. The fact that they'll die there anyway doesn't wash sadly. We recently had the floor up and I wanted to fill the cavity with slug pellets but she wasn't having any of it.

 

[Mursal]

MrsP won't have that. She doesn't want dead ones under the floor. The fact that they'll die there anyway doesn't wash sadly. We recently had the floor up and I wanted to fill the cavity with slug pellets but she wasn't having any of it.

But a little bit of bleach based bathroom cleaner squirted in the slots will "deter them from coming in the house"

 

[jdpjamesp]

Might just as well fill them with silicone anyhow, surely?

 

[Mursal]

Might just as well fill them with silicone anyhow, surely?

Sorry my mistake yes definitely, seal them up. Just thought it sounded better than "killing them under the floorboards"
Or just don't tell her?

 

[wotan]

MrsP won't have that. She doesn't want dead ones under the floor. The fact that they'll die there anyway doesn't wash sadly. We recently had the floor up and I wanted to fill the cavity with slug pellets but she wasn't having any of it.

Sounds like my missus, I hate the slimy so and so's, but she says leave them alone, they are the only creatures I detest.

Wotan