how to keep spiders from coming inside
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just seen the biggest spider i have ever seen in my bedroom, it was about 4 inches across, any tips on keeping them from entering the house? we normally keep the windows open during the night as its hot. is there anything i can put or spray on the window frame that would keep them out?
Apparently its the damp weather we have been getting them in too!
You can buy a plug-in thing that scares away beasts of all sorts, rats, mice, spiders, mosquitos etc. I borrowed my parent's one it kept me awake all night but it is meant to be silent to humans, I have bat-like hearing at the moment though due to my tablets.
You can buy a plug-in thing that scares away beasts of all sorts, rats, mice, spiders, mosquitos etc. I borrowed my parent's one it kept me awake all night but it is meant to be silent to humans, I have bat-like hearing at the moment though due to my tablets.
JamesIIIII said:
is there anything i can put or spray on the window frame that would keep them out?
Paste up a flaming tar pitch perimiter around the house, that'll slow em down...absolutely said:
You can buy a plug-in thing that scares away beasts of all sorts...
Or prop up a snoring grandmother by the window with anti-spiders whistles super glued to her lips, and great big yellow bird beaks attached to her fingers for claws, and two raisins stuck into her forehead wrinkles like those terribly scary hungry beady bird eyes...
absolutely said:
I have bat-like hearing at the moment though due to my tablets.
Hmm interesting, thanks for the info, i'll have a look for one of those devices after work tomorrow, don't like the thought of waking up to see another spider of that size crawling on the duvet cover...eeeekkkkWhen we first moved in to our current house the morning walk from the bathroom to the coffee machine would result in spiders webs across the face. Why are they always face level 
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After a few months we had a whole house electronic air cleaner installed.
No more spiders webs
The intent was clean air, the lack of spider's web was a bonus.
?After a few months we had a whole house electronic air cleaner installed.
No more spiders webs
The intent was clean air, the lack of spider's web was a bonus.
You cant really keep them out. Most of them were born inside your house under the floorboards or in the loft. Unless you live in an hermetically sealed container with a quarantine chamber on the door then you will never stop them.
Actually i tried to kill a spider with insect spray and i didnt ever care - i figured at least i might be able to drown it in the stuff!
I have inspections as best i can to make sure there are non luking in my bed for example but in truth they just appear from knowhere. The number of times i have been sat at my desk at night and some huge house spider just walks past on the wall, cue me having a heart attack!
Actually i tried to kill a spider with insect spray and i didnt ever care - i figured at least i might be able to drown it in the stuff!
I have inspections as best i can to make sure there are non luking in my bed for example but in truth they just appear from knowhere. The number of times i have been sat at my desk at night and some huge house spider just walks past on the wall, cue me having a heart attack!
k right off.I had always assumed that the British house spider (which is the one that gets really big) lived in houses and sheds etc. You rarely see them outside, other than in canoes and boats etc. Outside you normally find smaller spiders such as garden spiders.
Keeping your house very clean can help, as they'll have nowhere to lay their eggs. We live in an old cottage and I have a phobia of spiders, so I blocked up all the holes in the beams in my bedroom, and that seems to have cut the numbers down considerably in my room at least.
Do the plug in things work? Anyone else got experience of them? I only found out about them last week.
Keeping your house very clean can help, as they'll have nowhere to lay their eggs. We live in an old cottage and I have a phobia of spiders, so I blocked up all the holes in the beams in my bedroom, and that seems to have cut the numbers down considerably in my room at least.
Do the plug in things work? Anyone else got experience of them? I only found out about them last week.
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