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Poppyjean
  3/15/2015 19:35 EST

Hi all, I know this may seem trivial to some but we are moving to a village outside VT this summer and I have a real issue with spiders, give me snakes or rats and I have no problem but spiders are another story!
I am concerned more with the house spiders that may turn up rather than the garden sorts. Please can you give me your experiences, any any problems you may have encountered.
Thanks, Poppy

TerenceV
  4/6/2015 10:22 EST

Hi there,
I've only just joined so, pleased to meet you. Don't worry too much about spiders there's one really efficient way to keep them away, ask anyone who owns a boat, the pests get everywhere, even Inside knots on the rigging.
They're scared stiff of horse-chestnuts, or conkers as we called them as kids. Collect up a few bags full and distribute them generously about the house (or boat) and you'll have no trouble throughout the year.
The mechanism is that conkers give off some kind of solvent which destroys their own waxy protection leaving them vunerable to the exterior world.
As a point of interest, the beams in church rooves are classically made of chestnut wood for this very same reason,
If you're lucky you might find a few old ones laying about left over from last autumn.
All the best, Terry V.

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