My house is seemingly awash with spiders. I sweep and/or vaccuum their webs at least 2x/week.
I’m sick of it!
I would like to NOT have to wipe a web down in order to get to the washing machine. I would like to not feel the creepies after walking through a web at the bottom of the stairs.
What can I do? What will get rid of the buggers? 
Ignore then, worked for me!
I tried that.
It didn’t work.
I work downstairs 2-3 times per week (telecommuter), LilMiss has her study desk down here, the house puter is down here. Eventually it will be our family room. That’s beyond coming down to do laundry and other sundry stuff.
Have you ever been typing away, looking at the monitor, only to see an itsy bitsy spider crawling down the screen? :eek:
The positive side of the problem is that so far we’ve no biting spiders like at our previous residence. But they’re driving me buggy!
You may want to try to closing off the spiders’ routes of entry into your house. Things like cracks around windows or doors, openings for plumbing, and so on. And if there are places on the exterior of your house where they tend to congregate, use a garden hose to wash away the webs and drive them off your house. Maybe use insecticide sprays on the exterior to convince them that your house is not a good place to infiltrate. These are just my personal theories, I ain’t no expert.
I’m tolerant of spiders in my house on the theory that they’re eating all the other bugs, but how well this really works I’m not sure. It certainly doesn’t work that way with cats and mice, because the only mice I’ve ever had in my house are the ones the cat brought in to play with.
The best way is to get rid of what they come in for. Not that that’s easy.
Hedge balls are supposed to repell spiders. The trees they come from are common in the rural midwest and used as windbreaks.
I have a big old pile of these in back of my house. We call them hedgeapples or monkey brains. You’re more than welcome to them if you think they’ll work.
To get rid of spiders you need to swallow a bird, how absurd, to swallow a bird.
If the spiders start making a beeline out of your house, beware, it may auger the appearance of a basilisk. Source: J. K. Rowling
Like getting rid of any bugs, you have to get rid of their food source. I would do a thorough disinfectant cleaning of the immediate area you are in the most. Also, around water sources, drains, sump pumps, etc. I lived in a basement once, this seemed to help a bit. Spiders seem to be somewhat seasonal too, different spiders for different seasons. Well, good luck. eeeeek!!! … look out, there’s one right there!!! 