Please tell me how you spider proof your house?!

[elm26]

I need serious help.

I've had two huge spiders crawl on me in the past month and one has just now run across my living room floor.

I've also got rid of 3 false widows this week. So that's 6 spiders in a month. I've never seen this many in a short period of time until I moved here.

I really need some advice on how to prevent them, I am absolutely petrified.

I don’t suppose you have a link?

Does anyone else have the nasty spindly spiders? We usually have lots of the chunky house spiders but this year lots of the pale spindly ones that are hard to catch and chuck out.

I think the spindly ones are cellar spiders having read the full thread - will be avoiding using anything toxic in the house, conkers definitely don't work as mine got webbed on... will keep an eye out for the essential oil spray as OH wakes me at night to remove the big ones.

The spindly ones get rid of the big black ones - I've told my kids to leave them in the house 😂

I haven't read all the posts so may have already been suggested but you could try conkers.
It's a bit early in the season yet - but when horse chestnuts start dropping from the trees - go round and pick a load up. Drop a few in each corner of every room.
I used to live in the countryside where there were HUGE spiders and this really did deter them in the autumn when they come inside looking for a home. It doesn't work so well with small spiders but works a treat with the big house spiders (no idea if it will deter the false widows)

The only cat I've known to hunt spiders was my mums rather neurotic if beautiful Persian/British shorthair cross, and she only did it until she was bitten (spider also bit me when I was rescuing the cat/seeing if I could rescue the spider. Only time a spider has harmed me, not a false widow luckily, so just a weird tingly feel on my finger for half an hour.)

We encourage spiders generally as we have sodding clothes moths, but I get where you're coming from. We have looked into parasitic wasps, but wasps are my phobia and the thought of having thousands of them hatching out under the furniture does not make me feel calm and happy to say the least.

What's scary about a spider in the UK, they're not carnivorous!

Yes, because people are only allowed to have phobias of carnivorous things.

They definitely are carnivorous - they just don't eat people.

My ragdolls don't eat spiders but they will swat them with their massive paws.

Poor beasties....they really don't do much harm...unless you live in Australia!

Neither of our cats deal with spiders. The dog likes to follow them as they run away from her down the hallway.

Our previous house had very few spiders as it was a new build. Our new house is about 50 years old and has large numbers of massive house spiders that are big enough to be crushed if you open the door over them (have found two dead in this manner). DH is the Minister In Charge of Removal in this house; he takes them out to a large bush in the garden. I have managed to bravely rehome two large fuckers.

I am learning to cope with them as there are just so many. DD3's room is a particular haven; she names the ones who make a home in the corner of her ceiling.

Omg following I can’t stand them!!

Cellar spiders. We have quite a few of them on each room and they eat the big leggy bastards so I’m happy letting them live here with me. Cats are as useful as a chocolate teapot although boy cat got an elephant hawk moth and killed it before I could get it off him.

You can also buy a spray called Dethlac (try hardware stores for it) which creates an invisible barrier around openings. I use it a couple of times a year (inside and out) on the air bricks that we have and it has helped reduce numbers in the house. Plus a healthy population of cellar spiders. We've at least one per room and they seem to quietly do a go job.

Get two cats. My two kill anything that moves.

Irational fear of them from me!! I’ve never heard of indorex - If I type indorex into Amazon does the box have any pictures on it..? I have eucalyptus oil on the window and door ledges and diffuse it too which is meant to deter them

This will be it. In Autumn mature male spiders come into houses to look for a mate - it is happening earlier this year because of the weird weather.