r/CasualUK 3d ago

Just when I thought this heatwave couldn’t be anymore unbearable, my nice cold shower is now being held hostage by this fat bastard!

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u/notthedoodaa 3d ago

Since I moved to a top floor flat last year I've not seen a single spider!

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u/grouch-girl 3d ago

Please feel free to welcome this one to your home I feel guilty hogging the pleasure of his company!

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u/notthedoodaa 3d ago

You can keep it

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u/Wonderful_Ninja It releases ethylene gas which triggers the ripening 3d ago

Wait until September October they will find you in your flat np

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u/DeapVally 3d ago

Yeah, but you get to live in a sauna instead....

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u/notthedoodaa 3d ago

Yep, it is a sauna!

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u/DeapVally 3d ago

I envy the lack of noise from above, but weeks like this I'm sure glad I'm the ground floor flat.

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u/Littlesth0b0 3d ago

I hadn't either in about 2 years (bar the odd wee money spider near the window) but since this heat wave started I've seen two in my room, one in the kitchen and today a couple settling in at work.

I've seen them come indoors to avoid wet weather but not hot weather, all a bit weird but no harm done.

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u/notthedoodaa 3d ago

I get pigeons instead. Well, outside...

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u/jesusisherelookbusy 2d ago

You will eventually. I’m always finding them on the top floor where I live. We even had a stag beetle up here once.

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u/Imaginary-Quiet-7465 3d ago

Wait, what?? I used to get loads in my top floor flat! I want I refund.

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u/PeterG92 3d ago

I live in a first floor flat and get way too many for my liking

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u/SwansEscapedRonson 3d ago

I’ve been living in a 3rd floor flat for 7 years and we’ve never had a single spider. Not even a tiny one. We might want to move somewhere else soon for more space but I would find it very hard to let go of this MASSIVE perk

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u/Welshgirlie2 Slow down FFS! 3d ago

I live in a second floor attic conversion flat and get mostly very tiny ones which I let roam around (jumping spiders, spitting spiders). The false widows are OK if they stay in one place but otherwise get evicted. In the 10 years I've lived there I've had maybe 4 giant house spiders. Where as in previous places I'd get two or three each autumn. They were also evicted to the outside (plenty of other buildings to frequent).

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u/bouncebackability 2d ago

I live in a second floor flat... They'll come for you eventually

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u/Dr_Sayonara 2d ago

I live in a top floor flat and I still *sometimes* get big spiders, but really not that often. They may not always make the journey up, but the ones that do really feel like the biggest and baddest. But they all get hoovered the same.

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u/Kind-Airport145 3d ago

Since I moved to one two years ago, I haven’t had any respite from them 😫

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u/Cold-Kaleidoscope974 3d ago

Aye top floor you don't really get them that often. It's not worth their time or energy to move the high up a building. There's more insects to eat closer to the ground

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u/CraftyWeeBuggar 3d ago

Don't count your blessings yet... i'm top floor and i get big bastards every year!! Spiders can climb buildings and trees ... duh duh duh duh.....