'Mike' wrote:
Can anyone shed any light on this? My friends didn't seem to know how it
worked, but seemed to think that it did. Don't get me wrong: I still love
spiders, but there are places where I'd rather they didn't set up home!
My daughter and son in law have Horse Chestnuts in most rooms of their house
for the same reason ............................... and it works.

See, we have horse chestnuts all over the house, but it's nothing to do with
the spiders and all to do with the small children. Unfortunaetly it doesn't
seem to deter them.