Best way to get rid of ants?

[Salsa]

great - i will look for some at kmart or mitre 10.

btw jodie **labour vibes**

[~Flossie~]

my MIL pours boiling hot water on the nests outside.. i have never tried it as we dont get ants but worth a try!

[Salsa]

yea we did that at our last house, but in this place we are very close to our neighbours and i cannot tell where they are coming from. Dont know if the 'nest' is on our property or the neighbours. Wooden villa with brick fence and pavings - lots of gaps.

[[M]umma[M]ia]

Ant sand is FANTASTIC! well worth the money and lasts ages.

[Pandora]

we had a fumigating guy some. not sure what they use but he said was non toxic to humans and animals other than ants/****raoches. It cost about $200 for them to come. I couldnt try ant sand thoughcos we had the house on the market and were trying to make it all as unnoticable as possible.

[Salsa]

The ant sand has worked well outside, but we have are having terrible influx of them inside. We used ant rid, a sort of poison honey, but I dont think its workin that well. There must be loads of them under the house or something?

if I owned this house I would pay for a fumegator, but since we dont and I really hate dealing with our useless agent plus we are only here for about another 6 mths, I hope we can treat the problem cheaply ourselves.
Any other suggestions for inside ants?

[Pandora]

talc can sometimes work, if you dont have pets inside?

[Visitor8]

I use ant rid. $5 a bottle in the pest section of the supermarket, a couple of drops where the ants are and they take it back to their nest and within a day they are gone Used to have the WORST ant problem here but since putting this down as soon as I spot one no more ants