[Spotfree]

This year the spiders are taking over the windows, all my brushes are covered in webs I'm constantly cleaning them.

I have just had to come home and fill up my 650ltr tank as I've used it all already today on a particularly bad round that backs onto fields.

The webs stick to everything and everything sticks to them, I'm having a nightmare with them this year has been horrendous.

I'm thinking of spraying some saltwater or essential oils around the frames to keep the blighters away, anyone tried something like?

[The Jester of Wibbly]

Yep.  The spiders seems to be all over me too.  Always feeling a tickle or two.  And sometimes see one coming down from the peak of my cap.

Monday I opened my van door to start my week only to put my head through a load of webs in my cab.   Turned and saw a massive spider on the dash. 

I am not embarrised to admit it, but they give me scare or two.  I hate them.

[dazmond]

spiders are on windows and frames  all year round,i too have lots of work that back onto farmers  fields.......its normal!ive never used 650L by 230pm though.....(500L tank)....

[andyM]

Yeah I've noticed it's got bad in the last couple of weeks.
Had one in particular this morning (2 monthly) which was horrendous!

[Plankton]

Garden spiders?
There everywhere up here, few years back before I knew what it was I had a mammoth one on my shed and loads of little yellow mini one's hanging off the shed had just hatched or something, I shat it and grabbed a can of deodorant and flame throwered the shts.
Fook having them turn into the big one, it would have been like a horror movie... But with harmless spiders!

[Plankton]

[nathankaye]

I know a window cleaner who would rather leave a window rather than clean it with a spider on it 

[The Jester of Wibbly]

I did once have a customer run out and had a big rant at me about detroying a spider and it's web on a window.

[AuRavelling79]

I'm finding a high level of flies in rural areas around farms with cattle.

[M & C Window Cleaning]

I did once have a customer run out and had a big rant at me about detroying a spider and it's web on a window.

I seem to get the opposite. Some of my customers seem to think window cleaning includes free pest control where spiders are concerned and if I don’t get rid of the webs they get funny with me. I have to explain in no uncertain terms that I’m not a pest controller but a window cleaner. Windows and frames and that’s it

[zesty]

It’s normal at this time of year, every September/October the garden orb spiders make there webs.

It is spider season!

[SB Cleaning]

I cant stand the little barsterds they scare the crap out of me

Ive seen some right evil looking ones this year   

[Windy Miller]

I'm finding a high level of flies in rural areas around farms with cattle.

Same here, the worst are those persistent little blighters who seem to attack relentlessly from your first to last window! I'd have spiders any day over the flies.

[robbo333]

I knocked on a custys door yesterday and a giant beetle opened it, It had a right go at me!
Apparently there's a nasty bug going round! 

[nathankaye]

Im not a fan of spiders but at the same time im not scared of them lol. Whereas the wife and kids are, the kids will come running in from outside, screaming like a masked murderer is chasing them!
Regardless of how many times i hold a spider, or help them to realise that us humans are big, spiders are small!  We can squish spiders very easily and spiders can not not crush us! (Talking uk spiders / house spiders)

Yet it seems like we have some grown adults, who wouldnt think twice of confronting another person! Yet a tiny weeney hairy spider can make them quake in their boots 

[SB Cleaning]

Im not a fan of spiders but at the same time im not scared of them lol. Whereas the wife and kids are, the kids will come running in from outside, screaming like a masked murderer is chasing them!
Regardless of how many times i hold a spider, or help them to realise that us humans are big, spiders are small!  We can squish spiders very easily and spiders can not not crush us! (Talking uk spiders / house spiders)

Yet it seems like we have some grown adults, who wouldnt think twice of confronting another person! Yet a tiny weeney hairy spider can make them quake in their boots 

I'm not afraid to admit they terrify me

Think it's due to growing up with a mum who's a arachnaphobiac

[nathankaye]

My ex wife would freeze if she saw a spider.  When she was a wee kid, a so called friend grabbed her hand and made her splat a spider with it.  Since then shes had a real problem with spiders,  but gradually she got much better because of our little children at the time. She didnt want them to have a phobia of them, just because she did.  In the end she would catch them in a glass cup and show them to the kids, before releasing them outside over the fence in neighbours garden 😂.
Once the kids saw this and went back to playing , she would hide in bathroom and have a little melt down at what shes just done, before pulling it around.  Today, she still hates spiders but no where near the extent she once did.


Me, if i find a monster spider when cleaning the windows, i would drop another smaller spider onto the web and watch with fascination the result

[Plankton]

Serial killer in the making^

[nathankaye]

Serial killer in the making^

I thought the same when i was typing it 

[mufcglen]

Does anyone find when scrubbing the webs off the glass that the lighter you scrub the easier it comes off, I’m using a supreme flocked for everyday cleans and if I press hard while scrubbing it eventually comes off but if I very gently brush them like almost just roughing the bristles on the glass the cobwebs come straight off!
Just something I noticed a few years ago and seems to work for me with anything stubborn!