Almost everything that works here is free, physical and permanent. Almost everything sold for it is neither.
Remove webs consistently, cut the outside lighting near doors and windows, draught-proof the gaps, and clear vegetation and clutter from against the walls.
Reduce the insects and you reduce the spiders, because prey is what holds them. Spray is the least effective part of the answer, not the most.
A house where the webs get brushed down every Sunday has a fraction of the spiders of an identical house next door where they do not.
£180 for the first room, £60 for each additional — though most enquiries need no treatment at all.
View Spider Control Pinner →| Remedy | Verdict |
|---|---|
| Conkers | No evidence whatsoever. Persistent folklore |
| Ultrasonic repellers | No credible evidence |
| Peppermint or citrus spray | Mild, very short-lived, needs constant reapplication |
| Vinegar | Cleans. Does not repel |
| Leaving lights on | Attracts more insects, so more spiders |
| Supermarket spider spray | Limited — long legs keep the body off treated surfaces |
| Sealing airbricks | Causes damp and rot. Do not |
September and October bring large males wandering indoors looking for females. They are not breeding in your house, they are passing through, and the pattern ends within weeks. Every year. In a period house with a subfloor void and a mature garden, there will simply be more of them than in a new-build, and that is not a fault in the house.
Catch and release outside, if you can. They eat a great many things you would rather not have indoors.
Not the plughole. They fall in from the wall or come up from the subfloor and cannot climb out of a smooth bath.
Not particularly. They come in following prey, or looking for a mate.
One thing you should not tackle yourself — a wasp nest, £90 fixed in Pinner, guaranteed for 30 days.
Removing webs consistently, weekly, inside and out. A spider whose web keeps disappearing moves on, and it costs nothing.
Yes. Outside lights draw the flying insects spiders feed on. Motion-activated warm-toned lights attract far fewer.
Sash window meeting rails and boxes, door thresholds and frames, letterboxes, internal pipe runs, and an old cellar hatch or cat flap.
No. Airbricks ventilate the subfloor void and sealing them causes damp and rot. Mesh where you need to rather than filling.
No. There is no evidence for it at all — it is persistent folklore.
No credible evidence, for spiders or anything else.
September and October bring large males wandering indoors looking for females. They are passing through, not breeding in the house, and it ends within weeks.
Not the plughole. They fall in from the wall or come up from the subfloor and cannot climb out of a smooth bath.
Try the free measures first — weekly web removal and less outside light do more than a spray will.
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