Best way to get rid of ants?

[Salsa]

We have so many ants.
We are in a rental so I am not too bothered about doing a major ant fumegation, but we have so many outside and trailing thru the house - they are now spreading and I found them today busy in our bathroom rubbish bin!!

Whats the best thing to get rid of them? Currently we just spray them with surface cleaner, but they come and go from all little gaps around the house - we need a better treatment.

[Pretty Butterfly]

I try to not use poisons and chemicals and such, so we sprinkle and sweep ant sand around the edge of the house... works a treat, and stays for ages.....

[Salsa]

Yea, we dont like to use artifical chems etc either - the surface spray that works well is an enviro friendly one.
What is 'ant sand'? Where do I get it from and what sort of price am I looking at?

[Pretty Butterfly]

Not sure on price, Ad gets it.....

It is in a tube, like Pringles, the chips!!!! It looks just like sand, but has something in it the ants dont like, and they wont go through it.....He gets it where you get other ant "killers".....

ETA.... He gets ours at Big W, but heaps of places would have it... about $12 Ad just said...

[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?

[Nelle]

Any other suggestions for inside ants?

Pet anteater or echidna?

If that wasn't helpful, at least give asking the agent a try. You can write a letter, then call and ask if they got the letter, then a week later if nothing's been done, ask to speak to someone else.
Ants in the house is not okay - stress the whole 'not okay because we have kids' and whatever other argument you can think of.

[ss_storm]

Do you know where they are getting inside the house from? A layer of talcum powder along a door entry can stop them- they don't like the feeling of it on their feet. Or if you don't know how they are getting inside, maybe try running a strip of ant sand all the way around the house- if that is possible.
Is there anywhere in particular they are making their way to, or are they just wandering all over the house?

[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