Any ideas out there for how to keep spiders out of a walkout basement? Every year about this time we get wolf spiders that sneak in to the basement. The basement is below grade and attached to a garage. Ideally I would be able to keep them out of the garage which would in turn keep them out of the basement. Just wondering if anyone out there has any tricks??
I used to shut the door & put a towel under it and bug bomb our walk out basement. Always had me curious how so many got in there as our living room and bedroom were above the joists and spider free up there despite the hot water baseboards having oversized holes for the pipes. Do you have a crawl space or garage near there? I bug bombed them too. As a child my father would spray in the inner perimeter of the basement where all our bedrooms were.
bug bomb the bassterds, but it doesn't stop new ones from coming in. I found this spray a couple years back that you spray the perimeter and it supposedly kills them I say supposedly because I have no idea if it did or didn't. Don't even know if I noticed any difference. Being I'm on a slab I'm always getting them in the house it seems. big suckers the size of 50 cent pieces easily. I hate spider bites..
The house sits on a poured foundation that forms the basement. We never see them anywhere but the basement either. I did seal up my rim joists last winter which I feel has kept them from squirming through there. They're still getting in somewhere though We do have a drop ceiling down there which gives them all kinds of space to hide. Maybe I'll bomb that.
Do you recall what the spray was called? I thought about sprinkling moth crystals around the outside of the house. Not sure if that would deter them or not...
I think they are called Hedgeapples, big green covered in warts about the size of a softball, keeps them away.
If they are wolf spiders or any of the look-alikes, maybe clean with vinegar as they hate the smell and the acid in vinegar . We get the cellar spiders that look like daddy long legs if the basement gets damp.
Purchase a small bottle of Tempo, mix 1 ounce to the gallon, spray around the baseboard with a pump up sprayer.
I don't know for sure. I get this at the local coop. I think it is the same stuff an exterminator uses in your home.
that is the product I used, again couldn't be sure it actually did anything but I figured it couldn't be any worst than nothing but money lost. I've used monkeyballs/hedgeapples before I don't know if they actually did anything but I guess I could say I didn't notice as many when they were laying around.
