To ask how to get rid of house spiders?

[Davincisvault]

I mean the massive ones that come in from now til end of Oct/ Nov.

Honestly the fear is quite honestly taking over my life I’ll probably have to seek some sort of hypnotherapy but has anyone successfully managed to rid their house of them? I know people say about those plug in things but then often other people say they’re useless.

I have been using Indorex the last couple of years. Last Year I thought I’d conquered them as I only saw 1! Moved house since then and sprayed the whole house, window sills etc about a week ago but since then have seen 3. I just want something that works!

Peppermint oil, they hate it. All around the windowsills and door frames.

I had to flea bomb our house one year and it seemed to have the side effect of killing everything else as well

Oh no, I'm dreading the first one appearing! I have the plug in things and the spray, but still get the odd one, so not sure they do the job. I'm horrendously phobic. My mum has conkers on her window sills but still gets them. I'll try the peppermint oil.

No clues how to get rid of them but I know your struggle. I happily went along to take my normal shower picked up my lovely clean towel saw something black on it, thought it was a tag. Turns out it was a huge black spider running down it and almost got on my leg. I screamed like someone had died and dropped the towel and shut the door until DP got home. 😂

Won't be leaving my towel on the radiator again.

I'm in the same boat as you @Davincisvault

Dreading September time.

We're trying to declutter as much as possible but that doesn't stop them, just makes the buggers more visible 😡

I tried chestnuts and conkers around the windows to help deter them. Didn't work

I’ve given up. We all hate them but I live directly behind farmers fields. My car, fence and plants are all covered in massive webs all the time. They get in no matter what we do and they are huge

There are 2 vents that they use to get in our house, in spring and autumn I soak a cotton bud in lemon eucalyptus and put it in the vent. It keeps most of them out. Clove oil also works.

Try adding a bird.

Of course this can cause its own problems resulting in need to add a cat.

I don’t think they actually come in, do they? They live in the house in nooks and crannies and the colder weather stimulates the males to leave their holes and look for females. Putting things round the window/door won’t do anything.

Honestly the best thing to do is accept they are there and figure out the best way to deal with it when you see one - how about one of those spider catchers?

My sister lives in front of farmers fields and I opened the door to the room I was staying in, heard a noise, looked down and a MASSIVE one had fallen on my foot! 😭😱 Scarred for life now. General bug spray seems to work in my house. I use Renokill - you can buy it from Amazon.

Sorry, that should say Rentokill.

Link here: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B000TARC7A/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_m6NmFbNY9CFQ8?tag=mumsnetforu03-21

Spray white vinegar around the doors or gaps where they come in. Worked a treat for me!

The only thing that has helped me is to leave all the spindly legged spiders alone and let them make as many webs as possible to catch the horrible big fuckers when they come in.

@AnneBullen

Judging by the amount of web I have surrounding my house and garden they do live outside yes. I can post photos if you want 😂. They live out there and make webs to catch insects. I believe they come in at some point though. They go inside my outside lights (then get trapped) which makes changing bulbs really lovely...

We get huge black ones living in the crevices of the picture rails (old house). DD and I are really phobic about them but at the same time I feel strangely bad about killing them and don't really want to fill the house with chemicals. Thankfully DH is fearless and just picks them up in a tissue and flushes them down the loo. One reason I will never leave him!

Any general bug spray works though. An absolutely enormous brown one dropped off the kitchen ceiling and landed audibly by my foot last autumn. DH was out so I had to spray it with fly-killer from a safe distance. Once I had stopped screaming. It rolled over dead
immediately (like one of those tumbleweed things you get in the desert).

My cat hunts and eats them. It’s gross and not for everyone, but we virtually never have spiders as a result!

I can’t kill them. I just can’t stand anything that might squish. I don’t want anyone else to kill them either. We just remove them

Another vote for peppermint oil!
Some people I know leave conkers around the house and swear by it. I'm not sure of the rationale behind that though, so if anyone knows anything about it, I'd love to hear it!

My house is an old barn conversion and we get them coming in through the crevices in the stone walls. Over the years, DH has plugged most gaps with expanding foam so we don't get anywhere near as many now (and less draughts win win!).

I am petrified of spiders never found anything that keeps them out.

We have log fires and I think they sometimes come in on the logs too,or hide in the stack of logs at the side of the fires.

Luckily, DH is fine catching them in a glass and putting them outside

If you can bear it, don’t disturb the spindly cellar spiders (pholcidae). They prey on house spiders and will deal with them for you.

Indorex spray, one can treats a full house and one application lasts over a year, we used it one year as our cat had fleas, we kept finding dead spiders everywhere! Didn't see anything alive at all for a long time.

I use Indorex and you’re right, it kills everything, but it hasn’t yet (to my knowledge) killed any of the massive ones, which is why I’m doubting it’s effectiveness on them!

Think I’m seriously going to have to consider hypnotherapy or something as I can’t cope anymore and we’ve still got months of this left!!

Yes, we let the cellar spiders stay for the above reason! I like them....they tend to stay in one place for the most part and they move quite slowly, taking care not to frighten us . I've found house spiders in their webs, three times their size. It's said that if you left them long enough, they'd eat all the other spiders in the house. They have a special place in my heart.

After hypnotherapy, you won’t feel the need to kill them so invest in that instead.