All I seem to do is get rid of spiders webs. I keep sweeping them away and they come back almost before my eyes!:(

At this rate I will be able to rent my home out to a film company as a haunted house - how do I get rid of the webs and get them to stay got rid of?

Dust everyday and dont have ANY open doors or windows I guess ...in other words you can't stop 'em! ....we live in Spider country here too Jean ..surprised you didnt notice them when you were here :D

Cobwebs everywhere :D

Melody

Don't mind the cobwebs, it's the dust that collects on them and lets everyone know you've not done the walls since the last pup arrived. Ja:)kie

Its said that spiders like a dry house so maybe do someting terminal to your damp proof course :-)? We're coming down with them too, but don't mind except when my mother cames to stay. Mum is a demon about housework and the first thing she unpacks is a duster. Years ago Ian managed to convince her that the mammoth spider web in her bedroom mustn't be destroyed as belonged to a pet spider called Albert. Unfortunately that sort of ploy doesn't work anymore - she knows him too well now :-).

PS - ask Mari about spiders .... and yesterday's mouse :D!

There was something on the radio recently about conkers in a room discouraging spiders and the presentation said they had never heard of it but got lots of calls from people who had.

I have a conker tree down by the road and promptly went and gathered half a carrier bag full - need to vacuum the beams and then wait and see if more webs appear

Christine

We have 4 "conker" trees outside. Will have to collect some .. About 300 to keep all the spiders away urghhhhh I hate hate hate them and they frighten the life out of me. :)

Gina

PS Do they collect dust LOL

Hi i will also try the conker thing my boys have just collected about 500 drying out ready for next years contests at school (bless them)i will give it a go and see what happens and let you know if it works all the beat gwen

MOTHBALLS!

These tend to discourage spiders, although they are best kept to areas where nobody will smell them!

Mothballs discourage mice, too.

In summer, use a stick to poke holes in your lawn, about a metre apart. Drop a mothball down each. This will bring "leatherjackets" to the surface, where the birds pick them off. (It doesn't harm the birds, as the leatherjackets bale out before they absorb any mothball.)

Oh yes, and I believe that they discourage moths, too :D

Very Important question!!!!!!!!

Did the conker thing work, none of you have said?

I am really keen to know I am going mad with all the spiders we have here.

Please Reply

Kindest Regards

Alex

How on earth did you find this thread ??????

No the conkers did not work :( :( :( - I had bowlfuls of the things spread though the house all over the place but still 100's of spiders

Christine

No, your suppose to throw them at the spiders :-D,
thats why it does'nt work :-D

Briony :-)

Idiot :D

Does explain things though - added insult to injury to find webs in the bowls of conkers

Christine

Ahh now that is where your plan is fatally flawed Jean - don't brush them away - save them up and spray them silver for xmas! (lol) :D. I know how you feel it's like harry the spiders coming out party at ours just now and their big uns too!

KirstyS

ROTFL

I can just imagine the tree covered with silver spiders now :D

Melody

There is actually a kids' Christmas story about spiders using their webs to decorate a Christmas Tree
Anne

If I leave them up, at least I could save money by not having to buy fake webs for next Halloween! Maybe the webs would cover up all the grotty wallpaper which has been vandalised by a dog lying not a million miles from me as I type.

If I used them instead of that fake wispy snow this Christmas, how would I transfer them to the tree? And as they are organic, what happens if the dog eats them?;) Any food value?

Just to make you all shudder - apparently the average person consumes 8 spiders while asleep during their lifetime!! But I think in our house it would be more UGH I HATE THEM. I can get my head round rats, snakes, bats - just about anything but NOT SPIDERS. I ought to sleep in a balaclava. :-(

Gee thanks for sharing that with us, I am now off to sellotape my mouth shut ;-)
Anne

think yourself lucky you don't have a thatch roof (well I presume you don't!). It attracts SSOOOO many spiders.....I hoover them up in the Dyson....sometimes 20 a day!!!!

I heard that they're mainly attracted to clean house? Don't know how true this is because my house's filthy- and I still get them:) Not many though............................:o;)

Stacey x x x

O wow! I am soooo pleased you mentioned thatch! We are planning on moving to Devon and hubby is keen on cob walls and thatch. I can't stand spiders and have had my suspicions that they could be attracted to thatch. Hubby has been trying to convince me that thatch is no different to any other sort of roof.....
Now, if any details come through with thatch they are definitely going straight in the bin! Thanks.
I don't mind any other sort of creature - in fact I quite like frogs, toads, snakes etc. - but spiders make my skin creep.
Thanks again.
Liz

Hi Sam, we were talking about this a few months back if you remember. Our holiday cottage had a thatched roof urgghhh. (Gorgeous cottage though) And the spiders were flipping enormous - just hanging in the same place all the time (well they were until I got the old man to get rid of them). Wish I wasnt so frightened of them :)

Gina

Aww Sam, haven't you heard the rhyme "If you want to live and thrive, then let the spider go alive"!! ;)

Jacqui, who seems to be the only one in this house not feared of them! It's so funny to see a grown man (hubby) 'squeal' when one walks across his path! :D

Not so much the spiders I object to....just the acres of webs they produce!

Nothing else for it Jean,
To get rid of spiders you will have to shut down your computer and stay off the "Web"

:p :D

Harry C.

*GROAN*

:D