Massive spider in lounge, shut the door and sealed with masking tape last night,now what?

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What do I do now? Never enter the lounge again?

I generally put a glass over it and wait for DH to get home, do you live alone op? I'd open the door slowly with the hoover in one hand and a glass in the other.

House spiders can get fucking massive. The biggest one I've ever seen decided to appear in our bathroom just after me and DH had had a massive row....I had to sheepishly go and get him to get rid of it 😳It was seriously huge

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I don’t like to kill spiders either, but I’m happy for my cat to do it. It gets eaten so it’s not wasted.

I LOVE how unhinged this is because I would have done exactly the same!

Are you always so dismissive of phobias?

Masking tape won’t stop a spider getting out! They are able to flatten themselves and get through narrow spaces! Invest in a vacuum spider catcher from Amazon

OP, for some reason, house flies give me the heebie jeebies, seriously. Chills all down my spine, so all I can do is open all the windows and hope it flies out!

So I do empathize. It's just that spiders aren't my problem. Hopefully it's disappeared by now. Probably a Tegenaria if it's really big. The males wander at night looking for females. Both sexes also wander looking for water, so if it's been really dry where you are, if you want to keep them in one part of the house where it won't matter to you, you can try putting a tiny dish of water in a dark corner. Keep it topped up and they won't wander around looking for a drink.

ps. this is also why you can find them in the sink or bathtub. They fall in and get trapped. if you leave a towel long enough draped over the side, they can climb out again, and in the morning, they won't still be there!

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You clearly never watched the 90s children's series 'Spider!' 😕

I never, ever kill spiders unless by accident when they are playing REALLY hard to get and I end up having to hose them down the plughole because they won't let me take them safely out of the bath and I need to get in it.

I get loads of massive spiders in my bedroom and I gently save them all using the upturned glass and piece of thin cardboard method, then put them out of the window.

I never kill bees, or most bugs for that matter. I will however, kill mosquitoes that are trying to eat me, those minging big fat bluebottles that will lay revolting eggs on your food if you turn your back on them, and my most hated of insects, the bastarding horsefly. Even wasps get a chance to live long and prosper under my benign dictatorship, so long as they don't continue to push their luck after several verbal warnings.

You should have hunted it down right away OP. It could be anywhere now!!!!!

I find the most useful removal device is attracting the help of a person who is not scared of them and will do it to shut you up 😂

You'll have to get it removed or you will never rest easy in your lounge.

We once had someone give us a present of Italian wine they bought in a vinyard ( not as posh as it sounds but anyway) the next day there was a Maooosive spider glued fiercely to the ceiling for several days and I had to duck and cover to use the stairs. The tallest DC eventually got a glass over it and removed it. They wore garden gloves tho.. as no way of knowing what the bite would be like. My BIL was removing a spider with bare hands from his DCs cot and it bit him. Painful.

There is something about them. But I can't pin point what it is.

How big is big? I got one out of the bath recently - glass and card and out already opened window - and I would say leg to leg it was about 2 inches across (sorry, dont do metric, decided I wasn't going to use it at 21). I am a bit phobic but also aware that the spiders we find in our houses are house spiders and they are probably just lurking where we can't see them. Had one in the kitchen sink which was a pain - needed to open two doors to get it into the garden where it will have been miffed and instantly found another way into the house.
Sorry, OP. As I said, I am only slightly phobic - I don't like spiders but unless it's a ten foot tarantula alien invader I can't see the point of killing them (they catch flies and are probably the origin of streamers on Christmas trees, though the baubles are, I think, apples).
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OP you really woke up some spider wankers with this post didn’t you!

My advice in these situations is to run away until a grown up appears to handle it. Good luck.

This ^
I would absolutely do it for a friend even not a close one, no judgement whatsoever.

Please don’t kill it because you are scared of it. It is probably scared of you.
Get someone to help you if you really cannot get hold of it via a glass covered then with something to release it.

I'd take the tape off the door asap OP as it will end up marking it as the glue degrades.

No judgement at all for the fear, I don't mind spiders at all but ,my God, I can't cope with pigeons. Phobias are such a natural thing, I can't understand some of the comments here. The big spiders are coming inside due to the extreme heat, so you might see a few more. Invest in a spider trap as others have said, you don't have to seal up rooms then!

"Oh, we don't use that room: there was a spider in there in the summer of 2026." 🕸🕷

Yes 😂

Op are you in the UK and it's not literally tropical is it ?

Phobias are so real, the comments are just rage bait I'm sure! I have such an intense reaction to spiders that I can genuinely sense them before I see them. Even typing about them is giving me feelings! It doesn't help that my step-dad used to throw tomato tops at me because he knew how bad my fear was, abusive arse that he is!

Look on the bright side it could be worse. I had a mink get into my house. They scream at you, like something possessed , lunge at you and spray the same stinking liquid all over your house as skunks. After 2 hours of my very best attempts to get it back out I had to call a neighbour to shoot it. It was traumatic 😱. The stench lingered for weeks.

By way of an explanation I live in rural Scotland in an area with a mink problem caused by them being released from a fur farm.

Also once had a bat fly in my front door but I got it back out with a child's fishing net 😂

Have you never heard of something called phobias? How strange!

Oh no, that's so mean! The worst I had was my big brother or sister cooing at me from behind trees but laughing so much they couldn't do it properly.

So now is a good time to book therapy , my local zoo used to do it

you cannot live like this

Grow up