To wish we was warned about spiders

[Afraidofspiders]

We're renting a lovely two bedroom house been here nearly a month now and since we've moved in it's been nothing but constant spiders.

Next door neighbour said to my OH "that house is full of spiders isn't it"
So the landlord obviously knows and has even had a chat about it with next door.

I can't relax I have to look around each room before I walk in, if there's cobwebs above my head I put a towel over and run through!

The spiders aren't small either! OH has started naming them.

One I've just found in this kitchen sink this morning and that's small compared to the majority of them.

Houses have spiders. That’s life isn’t it? I think it’s a bit much to expect to be warned about the.

No I know that but there's so many of them daily not just once in a while.

Honestly? You’ll get flamed for this, but I honestly could not live there.

They are just house spiders and it is spider season. Every house has spiders!

I know this won't help your fear but really they are mainly harmless and a lot of people wouldnt be bothered/see it as a problem so I don't see why the landlord should have mentioned it. We used to have a static caravan which are known to attract spiders nests and you can get a preventative spray done each year by a pest control type person to deter them.

I had a spidery house once. Awful. What helped was comstand movement (had been empty a while), heating on. Cleaning thoroughly each day eg behind sofas etc. They go places which arent ysed mych. They also go out at night.

It is prime spider season though. You have my sympathies, I would absolutely hate it. I wonder why your NDN said that - what would make one house more attractive to spiders than another?

Bloody hell, I’d be a nervous wreck. I still have nightmares about a house I lived in during the 80s/90s due to the vast amounts of massive spiders.

I found the plug in spider repellers you can get online seemed to work in a particularly spider-y flat I lived in

A spider house. Argh...

Hoover the web's up?

I think some houses are more spider prone- I’ve mainly lived in newer build houses but our last house was a 1930’s house. I’ve never seen so many spiders and huge ones at that it was awful especially in spider season. We live in a new build now been here for 18 months and only one big spider and few smaller ones.

if there's cobwebs above my head I put a towel over and run through!

Maybe do some cleaning?

I moved into a rental which had been empty for a while and was really spidery. They back off and hide better once you’ve been there a while (and i’ve got used to the ones that are more persistent). I just keep a pint glass and card handy to catch and put out the ones that get in my way. Conkers are meant to deter them, as does hoovering all the books and crannies regularly.

I used lemon scent in the spider house to deter them it helped at little. Tried the plug in spider thingy too but that did nothing.

Unless we're talking Arachnophobia level spiders (as in the movie) then YABU I'm afraid. How many different spiders do you see each day?

I've regularly removed spiders from my house this summer.

Spray raid EVERYWHERE. All along the skirting board, window sills etc. Seemingly conkers places around the skirting stops them too. You have my sympathies, now it’s getting colder they will start coming indoors I can’t sleep for having to constantly put the light on to check and recheck there aren’t any lurking in the bedroom.

Yes some houses are awful. The house I grew up in was horrific. They were beasts. AWFUL.

ANOTHER reasons I'm scared of moving.

Op, you need to get the population down. I'm afraid you need to kill them or move them far away from house. If you just pop them by the back door they will come in. Get sprays, to kill and also to hide female smell.

Very spidery even in my normally unspidery house at the moment. Tis the season.
Apparently peppermint oil helps?

Spiders would prefer to be outside really, our houses are too clean and dry, and there isn't enough food.

But at this time of year the males alter their normal behaviour and start moving further afield to mate. They'll come into a house if they happen upon an entry point.

So I'm not sure why a house should be more spidery than another really, if it's clean and tidy and regularly swept. Perhaps there is an obvious entry point you could repair?

They hate peppermint spray it everywhere!

Come to Australia and you'll see what a real spider is.

At the risk of sounding like a woman who swallowed a fly.... I had a terrible fear of spiders. The I lived in India for a bit where massive American Cockroaches roamed the apartments daily. I f**king hate cockroaches and never got used to the gut wrenching panic of seeing one. Or the ability to wake, bolt upright, because it sounded like one may have hit the floor.

I've returned to the UK to find I am entirely cured of my spider fear.

OP, perhaps you could invite some bigger and more scary pests into the house, so as to reduce your worry about the spiders?

Get a cat. We have no spiders - the cats catch them all.

Conkers only deter them until they dry out.