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Cobweb resistance?

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Cobweb resistance?

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Postby UncleEbenezer » March 9th, 2022, 10:42 am

I've just been round the house with vacuum cleaner and tools, purging cobwebs from hard-to-reach nooks and crannies. I expect I've missed half of them ...

Much of the house could do with a lick of paint.

Combining the two, I wondered. Is there such a thing as a paint that'll deter spiders and thus resist cobwebs?

[edit to add] The biggest cobweb magnet is actually the exposed stonework that - when clean - is really attractive. Any thoughts on that would be welcome too.

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Re: Cobweb resistance?

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Postby pje16 » March 9th, 2022, 10:48 am

never heard of it before
but a quick google reveals
https://www.corion.it/en/pages/repel.php

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Re: Cobweb resistance?

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Postby 88V8 » March 9th, 2022, 10:55 am

UncleEbenezer wrote:I've just been round the house with vacuum cleaner and tools, purging cobwebs ... Any thoughts on that would be welcome too.

I view our C17 cottage as a habitat that we share with the spiders.
Their webs are useful in catching some of the dust.
My thought is that a low level of internal lighting prevents one from seeing the webs, and one should particularly avert one's eyes on sunny days as it discloses what some people regard as dust on pretty much all surfaces including those that are approximately vertical.

V8

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Re: Cobweb resistance?

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Postby servodude » March 9th, 2022, 11:03 am

Chestnuts/conkers and lemons seem to work until the spiders are big enough to move them out the way.
I doubt you'll find a texture for paint that repels them, so any anti-arachnid properties would probably be down to volatiles/smells; which would fade but hopefully not till after you'd forgotten that the paint was meant to keep them away.

I've heard you can encourage them to relocate with the right type of plant life outside - and also that that's bogus because they're different types of spiders!
Learn to live with them- and dust more often
-sd

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Re: Cobweb resistance?

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Postby pje16 » March 9th, 2022, 11:09 am

I guess a spider like ths would move a lemon quite easily :lol:
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https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/cross ... Spider.jpg

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Re: Cobweb resistance?

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Postby servodude » March 9th, 2022, 11:50 am

pje16 wrote:I guess a spider like ths would move a lemon quite easily :lol:
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https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/cross ... Spider.jpg


Dunno - I've got big lemons round these parts ... but I can't quite find the photo I took recently (because they were really quite impressively!)

But I've found the one of the last huntsman that was behind the microwave:
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and this thing..

https://i.imgur.com/mGPX6d9.jpg

which was big enough and heavy enough to register as a person touching a capacitive sense button so that the device it was living in was sent back as faulty! and nearly gave me a heart attack when I opened it; god knows what it was!

...ah here we are - I call this one "big lemons with keyboard"
https://i.imgur.com/7hHMvek.jpg

notice there are no spiders! ;)

EDIT: to url from img cos pixel height?!

- sd

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Re: Cobweb resistance?

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Postby pje16 » March 9th, 2022, 12:42 pm

Wow
that is one big b*stard !!!!!!!!!!!!

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Re: Cobweb resistance?

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Postby UncleEbenezer » March 9th, 2022, 1:15 pm

Heh. The size of the spiders is immaterial. It's the crap they produce that I'd like to avoid.

I'm also generally happy to share my space with small critters, so long as they don't eat me or buzz too annoyingly. A paint that actually poisons them seems like overkill, if that's not an all-too-appropriate word!

An early memory from when I got my first flat in Italy was waking up one morning to see a magnificent scorpion on the wall right above the head of my bed. If I'd reached up in the dark for a light switch ....

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Re: Cobweb resistance?

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Postby pje16 » March 9th, 2022, 1:18 pm

"magnificent" would not be the word that sprang to my mind :lol:

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Re: Cobweb resistance?

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Postby 9873210 » March 9th, 2022, 7:01 pm

Science: DDT Paint

There are few new ideas. There are even fewer new bad ideas.

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Re: Cobweb resistance?

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Postby bungeejumper » March 10th, 2022, 10:18 am

Stop! Spiders are your friends. They eat all sorts of other peskies that would otherwise make you itch, scratch or sneeze. The inconvenience of having the occasional cobweb is a mere trifle in comparison.

Okay, maybe I'll make an exception for the large specimen that walked across the bedroom ceiling as I lay idly in bed, watching it, and then suddenly let go and dropped right onto my face. That one woke me up quite effectively. :lol:

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Re: Cobweb resistance?

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Postby servodude » March 10th, 2022, 11:14 am

bungeejumper wrote:
Okay, maybe I'll make an exception for the large specimen that walked across the bedroom ceiling as I lay idly in bed, watching it, and then suddenly let go and dropped right onto my face. That one woke me up quite effectively. :lol:

BJ


Sounds like your spider namesake ;)


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