Olivia - I use this - just spray round where you think they might come in i.e. doorways, gaps in skirting boards, floorboards and don't forget gaps where the radiator pipes come up from the floor - I saw one poke its heard through the other day in my study as I was on the computer - sent Mr. Den to B & Q next day to get some gap fillers.
Don't spiders only come into a clean house or is that a myth. We have huge cobwebs hanging outside our porch and the conifers are full of them. Clean garden dirty house lol
I just leave them alone unless they're trying to weave a cobweb around the passive ray which activates our burglar alarm system, as if it's very sensitive, a spider walking across it, can trigger the alarm, as I once found out. They're perfectly harmless. Now if you had cockroaches, that would be a different matter altogether.
I don't kill spiders unless I have no option - especially the very large ones, even though I hate them. If I see one running across the floor I get an upturned glass over it (keep itslegs in - not your's, it's) and slowly put stiff card underneath. It will walk onto the card and I thrown them out into the garden. I expect they break their necks when I throw them out of the bedroom window though. I use a fly spray in holey corners or under the bed (before you leave the room for a while, try not to breathe it in) helps although that probably kills them, so forget what I said in the first place ...
I bought a spider catcher from Lakeland plastics, it is a tube with a motor (battery) on the end that sucks up the spiders then you just put them outside
The thought of going anywhere near a 'large' spider fills me with dread - I could no way put a glass over it or catch it in a tea towel - just reading that sent shivers up my spine.................
Dancairo - NOooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo - no never never never never - if you have a spider phobia you will never get within a few feet of them let alone let them dangle on loo roll.
The girls in my office knew I had a phobia about spiders and one day, while I was at lunch, they loaded a spider screensaver onto my PC........they later found my projectile vomiting very impressive.....