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Spider Repellent

shawshank72

shawshank72

Mar 22, 2009
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I have a room in the basement that has been used for storage for a long time, but I recently turned it into a useable room for guests and what not. I cleaned out the entire room and vacuumed all the spiderwebs and all along baseboards, but they still keep coming back in droves. Has any of my fellow talkbassers found a natural way to keep them out without spreading poison everywhere?
 
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The first steps would be to double-check the physical barriers of openings into the room: Make sure any windows to the outside are well sealed (weather stripping where applicable where they open, gap-filling foam around the framing, and seams caulked outside). Check any doors for a good seal, and consider adding a door sweep to the lower edges of any that have a significant gap. Inspect the baseboards for any gaps between them and the wallboard.

Also, make sure any electrical connections coming into the room (light fixtures, electrical outlets, etc) are firmly secured to their mounting boxes, and sit flush against the walls and/or ceiling. People don't think of those as pathways for things, but if you've ever found a bug in a ceiling-mounted light shade, you know plenty of things move through walls and emerge there.

Then, get some small glue traps, and place them around the room at strategic points (under windows, in the corners, near doors, etc). Give it a couple of weeks, and see what shows up where. That may give you some idea about where they're coming in.

Good luck! :thumbsup:
 
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Winslow said:
The first steps would be to double-check the physical barriers of openings into the room: Make sure any windows to the outside are well sealed (weather stripping where applicable where they open, gap-filling foam around the framing, and seams caulked outside). Check any doors for a good seal, and consider adding a door sweep to the lower edges of any that have a significant gap. Inspect the baseboards for any gaps between them and the wallboard.

Also, make sure any electrical connections coming into the room (light fixtures, electrical outlets, etc) are firmly secured to their mounting boxes, and sit flush against the walls and/or ceiling. People don't think of those as pathways for things, but if you've ever found a bug in a ceiling-mounted light shade, you know plenty of things move through walls and emerge there.

Then, get some small glue traps, and place them around the room at strategic points (under windows, in the corners, near doors, etc). Give it a couple of weeks, and see what shows up where. That may give you some idea about where they're coming in.

Good luck! :thumbsup:
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Thank you for the advice.
 
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My Mum swears by the old wives tale of placing Conkers (still in their spikey shell) near windows, and doorways.

I'm always pointing out that there are spiders webs in the tree she's collecting the conkers from, but she has an answer for that (like everything) "those aren't house siders".

Anyway, if that's convinced you to give it a try, you've timed it perfectly, as it's conker season.
 
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