To not go into the downstairs bathroom because a really big spider is already using it?

[RevoltingPeasant]

It's bigger than me [exaggerating emoticon]. And crouching right by the loo.

Maybe it will be gone in the morning?

Kill it, trap it or remind it to put the seat down.

You must kill it with a homemade flamethrower.

Aerosol and cigarette lighter.

It could reproduce

And if that doesn't work the firemen who come to put the house out can run over it for you.

I usually hoover them up. Watching them tumble around the dyson gives me a lot bit of sadistic joy

'Orrible little critters!

Yanbu I would be taping the door up,I have an awful phobia and I check for them every night before bed.

I moved to a new place in August and made friends with my neighbours sharpish.

Hairspray is GENIUS! Thanks, MumsNet.

Baileys, no, hoovering is bad! I saw a documentary once that says they can live in the hoover.... so they'll come out later at night, angry, and get you ...

The most sadistic thing I've ever done is poured boiling water on one. It made me feel like a medieval castle-dweller under siege, but it just wouldn't go away!

RevoltingPeasant: did you steel yourself and deal with it, is it still there, or has it moved....somewhere?

surely you should make it pay for any loo roll it has used before killing it?

and did it flush?

I once spent a good ten minutes throwing video cassettes at one in the middle of the front room floor till it died then I stacked them all up on it and left dh to deal with it in the morning

I hope you've taped up the door with 'DO NOT CROSS THE LINE' tape and banned any future use of the room as it's now contaminated with spider uckk. Your best bet is probably to call the fire brigade, then when you see them driving up the road, set fire to that room. That way they can put the fire out before it reaches the rest of the house but your spider will be crispy fried and no more trouble.

loving your name, how did you come up with that gilbonzo?

If you are going to kill them, I've heard that the most humane way is loads of wet loo roll. They suffocate and then the loo roll goes hard so that someone brave can dispose of it.

Ummmm....well... I have no idea! I wanted a new name for ages and one night I woke up and thought of this

yuck spiders. Get rid of it, don't reliquinsh your downstairs bathroom to it

Oh, and thank you for liking it!

I would use a brush and shovel, brush it into the shovel and throw it out the window, real quick

Hairspray is my Mum's weapon of choice aswell - but it has to be 'Shockwaves' hairspray (don't even know if they make it any more - it used to be lethal stuff for defenceless strands of hair). Will render a Spider completely immobile within seconds!

As an aside, I don't use our downstairs loo anyway... I tell my DH it's the servant's loo! It has a horrid suite in there (some yucky olive green/grey type) and it's the only room we haven't got around to redecorating yet. But that will be rectified soon and it will be nice not to have to climb two flights of stairs from my office to the normal bathroom! DH uses it (my servant ) so it has that 'manly' smell about it aswell, yuck!

Good luck with getting rid of your unwanted guest!

I ind a well aimed big boot does the trick everytime .
I have a vision of a spider sitting on your loo Reading the paper and saying do you mind?
I hate them I actually feel sick when I see one and feel jumpy for the rest of the day.

I find if you don't get rid of it they ALWAYS come back.
I am terrified of the little critters but i have had to make myself get rid because i don't want my kids to be the same.
Its better to get rid of it while you can see it rather than let it disappear and spend the rest of the time worried about where it will crop up next.
And believe me you get a great sense of achievement once you have done it.
BE BRAVE

Poor ds1 sleeps in the basement and has lots of spiders.
He woke up with a big hairy legged fucker in his mouth and bit into it in trying to spit it out.
I know this because he put it on the bedside table to show me when I came down with his tea in the morning.
It was a hairy handed trucker style of spider, all muscle and big eyed.

Poor Pagboy The Elder

OMG that is so digusting, your poor ds

that's horrendous, eh? Waking up with a hairy great spider in your mouth

I feel weak

I know. The trauma.

He wasn't amused that I was sad that he had killed Jeff The Fucking Huge Spider. I did feel sorry for him though.

It was an all round tragic situation.

Urrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh! I would have been puking and spitting and rinsing my mouth out with industrial mouthwash for weeks (not to mention screaming the place down!)