Spiders. How do I get rid of and stop spiders coming in my home?
Posted by Dexalon@reddit | AskUK | View on Reddit | 16 comments
Tl;Dr: the title.
I can't take it anymore. I'm becoming a nervous reck. If you like spiders and you aren't bothered by spiders, fantastic, because I am. I wasn't bothered about them until I started to find them in my home absolutely everywhere. Over the last 2 years it's just got worse and worse. Just now I had the fattest bodied biggest "household" spider I've ever witnessed crawl over the back of my hand. It was however interesting to see that I shouted "Jesus!" when I was that kind of startled instead of swearing like I thought I would.
Please. I don't care about the price I don't really care what I have to do but I need to find a way to get rid of all these spiders. I can't move atm but I'm literally trying to, cause of this. This and the fact that the building is so poorly put together that quite a lot of the outside world finds its way in. They are in my shower, they are in my bedroom, they are in in my front room. The only place they never seem to be is in my kitchen. The one that crawled over my hand was when I was lying in my bed. So now that's going to be fun trying to get to sleep tonight.
I'm a big black guy in my mid-30s. I am completely in control of my faculties and I understand the complete lack of logic here. I have literally had a blade held to my throat in my own kitchen that bothered me less than that spider walking over my hand just now. I didn't have a phobia but I can feel it getting to that point.
Please tell me it's a miracle cure, something I can just plug or spray. I will happily choke on chemicals in the air, if I don't have to deal with any more spiders.
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Reluctant_Waggle@reddit
How ironic that this thread is one of the top google results...
Karmaisthedevil@reddit
This is a top Google result, good job mods.
Gasper6201@reddit
Gtfo
SatisfactionThese588@reddit
We used to live in a really old cottage (circa 1720 built) and when we moved in it was a daily occurrence to see spiders the size of a golf ball touring round the rooms as if they owned the place. My wife (who is not a fan of spiders) would be jumping around the place as if someone was setting her feet on fire.
Found a load of conkers- put them in every corner. Never saw them again đź‘Ť
Good luck, if it doesn’t work. Move house 👌
elephant_charades@reddit
I'm not British so forgive me - what are conkers?? I tried to Google it but it was followed by spiders and I don't want to shatter my phone
SpazticMemez@reddit
Move to Antarctica no spiders live in antartica
FallopianTubeRaider@reddit
Thats what the spiders want you to believe
DrZonino2022@reddit
I saw a Reddit post today that said spiders experience REM sleep and could possibly dream. Weaponise this. Create a house of horrors that would give any arachnid nightmares for the rest of its life. Take captives. Disembowel some, dismember others - always leave one witness alive to spread fear. Make tiny chainsaws. Make sure they don’t sleep more than 10 minutes at a time. Make a face mask out of husks and webs. Become terror. Become legend. Your acts of psychological warfare will be passed down from generation to generation until, one day, you will never see so much as cobweb again.
Then the flies.
throwawaychef33@reddit
I like your style.
DoIKnowYouHuman@reddit
Only one definitive way to solve this, soak the place in diesel, light it, and walk away to a new life in the Antarctic where there probably most likely maybe aren’t any spiders
kingschorr@reddit
Most original joke I’ve ever seen what a big help
Bluest_boi@reddit
what worked for me is:
-silicone caulk small gaps around things
-used expanding foam for larger gaps
-Polly filler for cracks in bricks
-draft excluder/bug stopper on amazon
-in places where silicone may not work you can get self adhesive bathroom sealant strips
-mesh window screens/mosquito mesh
-and if the gap in your door frame is large you can get draft sealant foam strips that compress and block gaps when the door is closed
since all of this restricts quite a lot of airflow for one room i also bought a velcro AC seal for windows, allowing fresh airflow without any bugs getting in. Hope this helps!
pastina2@reddit
I hire someone to come and spray spider repellent on all the windows and door frames of the house every 4 weeks in the summer. He uses a product called Terro spider killer. It does seem to really help. I also don’t open the windows at all unless there is a Velcro netting. Good luck OP. I can’t imagine how awful it must be to have so many spiders in the house. I really struggle with fear of spiders since I unfortunately watched the movie “Arachnophobia” when I was about 4 years old. I hate them.
bigcateatsfish@reddit
Spiders are very helpful and safe animals. They help to reduce mosquitos in the home.
WelshRobz@reddit
bruh THIS is the google result... so funny how reddit mods remove posts like this what weirdos lol