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!