hopey
A couple of tips I found while trying to combat spiders last year (my first summer/fall in West Seattle):
* Spiders that repeatedly build their webs in your way (like across a doorway) need to be relocated. I get a stick, catch the web and move the stick around until I also have the spider on the stick. Then I quickly go across the driveway or across the yard to a bush where their web will not bother me, and toss the stick there. So far it’s worked every time.
* Indoors, you can keep spiders away using Pledge lemon furniture polish. No, really. Apparently spiders “taste” using their feet, and they do NOT like the taste of lemon furniture polish! I kept getting spiderwebs across my basement stairs and doorway but could never catch the spiders to relocate them. So I sprayed it down with Pledge, and voila! No more spiderwebs across my doorway!