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.

Thanks everyone going to pop out soon and get some bits worth a try.

I am hoovering up the webs but when I get up to go the loo in the night more webs have usually been made.

There driving me insane never felt so paranoid in my life!

p.s. Indorex. It's for fleas but is pretty hot at repelling spiders also.

What missbattenburg said. Any of the proprietary household sprays for flea infestations will get rid of spiders for 6-12 months. Go to the vet, buy a couple of cans and spray everywhere, particularly skirting boards etc. Hey presto! No spiders for ages. The sprays stop them reproducing y'see.

I second the cat suggestion, mine munches them up the second they are anywhere near the floor, I very rarely see one now.

I can't get excited about spiders really. Even my car has a resident spider.

good idea, kill all the spiders off and put up with a fly infestation.

Move house. NOW. However if any come into mine uninvited I do the cup and card trick. Not the glass idea. They dance around those showing off; i.e. "Look at all my legs and see what I can do". Ughhh you have my sympathies OP!!!

Why aren't you cleaning up the cobwebs? It wouldn't occur to me to put a towel over my head and run under a cobweb...gross

You need this Kiwi product Miss Muffet’s Revenge

Oh, you poor thing, how awful. I think I'd be calling rentokill to come and do a complete job as I am guessing they are nesting under the floors or somewhere.

Very frustrating to have to pay for it in a rented house. Less expensive than moving the minute the contract was up though, which is what I might have to do otherwise.

Oh grow up

Cedarwood or lemon oil will help.

I second a cat. I very rarely see any kind of beast in my house other than them.

Saw a fly once but it was soon pounced on.

Get a cat! I hardly see any spiders anymore, the devil ninja cat hunts them for sport.

@Loubilou09 we are constantly but in the night I'm not going to get the hoover out so I just run for it

Please don't kill spiders, they are part of our endangered ecology, they kill flies which are far more disgusting

You need to set off a spider bomb! They work brilliantly. www.nomore-pests.co.uk/insecto-spider-%26-insect-killer-bomb-150ml~619

We get loads in our house too. Buy flea foggers/bombs.

Just keep removing them (and especially hoovering up their eggs - empty hoover immediately obviously) and over time there will be far fewer. Our family never kill spiders as someone killed a spider in my FIL's house in Singapore during the war and it was bombed the next day by the Japanese.

Essential oils!! A few drops in a spray bottle (peppermint, eucalyptus anything citrus especially but I'm sure other work) spray it everywhere all around doors and along skirting boards, anywhere you don't want them. They hate the smell and go away

So get rid of them. You are probably seeing the same ones over and over again.

So are you suggesting that letting agents now need to provide a document on the likelihood of spiders and other insects entering the house?

I sympathise as I once bought a house like this. It was honestly infested. I opened the windows and about 30/40 spiders fell out of each one (some live, some dead). The vents were full of them. They were just everywhere. I have never seen anything like it. People would just say, oh they are only spiders, but it was intolerable.

Funnily in my case it helped my arachnophobia as I just became totally numb to them. It took ages to get rid of them all.

I tried all of the tricks often listed (peppermint, conkers etc) but nothing seemed to work. In the end I bug bombed each room to get rid of them and what they were eating and tried to get rid of as much as possible they could hide under.

I then kept the house very clean and eliminated any insects I found. Once their food source was gone, they stopped coming. We still got spiders but the normal amount

Oh cripes, I feel your pain. When I was a child my family rented a house like that. No house before or since has ever had that many spiders. If you went out for the day, you'd return to see them on the walls. My mother always theorised that what the place needed was fumigating.