boxst

I want to run a satellite cable from the loft down the wall to the lounge (I currently have the box in the loft) and I've tried various things to get the cable from the aerial socket downstairs but haven't managed.

So I am going to have to crawl in the loft space and look down from the loft down into the cavity wall to see where a clear path is and I've just been putting it off. Thoughts of massive spiders and unknown loft dwelling creatures in my mind (even though the house is just a couple of years old). How wimpy is that?!

Steve

New_scooby_04

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Watch out for this one!!

YouTube - BIG spider - tarantula on my hand

subaruturbo_18

Haha u big wimp
I would be exactly the same, infact when you said look Down the Walls I got the creeps lol

boxst

That was quite tame ... I was expecting it to jump at the camera / person near the end!

Steve

subaruturbo_18

Ewwww. I'm on the iPhone and I had to touch the screen to stop the video. lol to the op, I think I'm now worse than you

New_scooby_04

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I was thinking about posting a scene from arachnophobia, but thought that may be a bit cruel!

Good job the OP doesn't live in Aus!

YouTube - Huntsman Spider

moff1888

I love spiders, loved playing with the camel spiders in Iraq.

A few of us watched arachnophobia the other week there and one of the lasses squealed but it was her boyfriend that jumped the most, soft *** lol.

kingofturds

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As an apprentice I was working in a loft when I reached back and put my hand in something gooey, a maggot infested rat

Torquemada

That was nasty! I freak out if a wee tiny spider drops onto me when driving, let alone one of those!!!

Torquemada

But that kinda thing doesn't phase me at all. Dead things, fair enough. Snakes, no worries. Spiders....get the napalm out.

The idea of crawling around in a very small loft space, with massive spiders running around up there is just soooo not to my liking, lol.

Scoobychick

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In answer to the original question, yes, where spiders are concerned but then I'm a wimmins so it's perfectly acceptable

Matteeboy

We camped (!) in Oz and had a massive huntsman spider in our tent one night. We also saw three redbacks and a funnel web. From then on I was a gibbering wreck, we stayed in cabins and I kept having night terrors about them.

Then we got to NZ and all was fine again.

Not keen on spiders but it's fine if they are harmless. Deadly ones are a different matter.

SWRTWannabe

I'd be more worried about finding shoddy work that the builders (or in my case the previous owners) had done. As well as a hideous colour scheme which we are slowly getting rid of, the DIY gems that I've uncovered so far include ...

Door hinge held on with 2.5" screws (splitting the wood, which resulted in them further bodging it by covering the hinge with epoxy resin)

Shelf bracket held in with 1" screws. Explains why it came down this weekend

Lack of understanding when to use a plasterboard plug and when to use a solid wall plug.

Using silk paint on newly plastered walls (it doesn't bond, then chips off or peels off like wallpaper).

Light fitting Earth wires joined with "twiddle joint" - and not even insulated with tape, just left in such a way that it was only luck that prevented them touching the other wires

ScoobyDoo555

Last Summer I had to rewire a client's speaker system. Turns out feckin mice had chewed through the speaker cables

Try 1 30ft by 40ft loft (in a new build on a farm) built onto the old farm house. All the speakers are mounted in the corners or in the ceiling. Imagine rummaging through the loft insulation up to your elbows in mouse/rat **** (and food!)

not pleasant. but since I've done that, I'm MUCH better than I was.

Plumbing pipes etc, now TOTALLY irrational, but I hate water etc

Dan

subaruturbo_18

I remember once when i had woken up late at night and a spider was absailing down from the ceiling headed right for my face. I diddn't no i could move so fast

moff1888

When I was in The Falklands 1 of my jobs was the exchange manager, so when the phones started going mad - randomly ringing and/or just dying - I went to look at the exchange. When I finally got there one of the cats was going mad near the exchange so I decided to look in and discovered the reason, a mouse had hidden or found heat inside the exchange and subsequently got zapped alles uber der platz leaving a nice trail of blood and guts inside my nice ex-clean exchange.

The heat had pasted the blood onto all the boards etc, yummy.

decepticon

spiders dont hurt ya so get on with it you big girls blouse
i doubt very much that it would be worth trying to look down the cavity as it will be sealed off with a brick or white fire proof boarding as required by building regs.
cable down the outside of wall is the most common solution
cheers

WRX_Dazza

lol @ "twiddle joint" hahaha, reminds me of my mk1 escort speaker system back in the day.

i fookin hate spiders witha passion. the world would ba a better place without them.

why cant they be extint and the dodos still live ???

brrrrrr, gone all shivery now !!!

moff1888

My sister hates them to the point if I even "claim" to have a spider in my hands and "throw" it at her she goes ape and hides.

boxst

My (wrong I guess) assumption is that there must be a pathyway as there is a telephone and two aerial cables coming down from the loft.

At least I'm not the only one who doesn't want to crawl in the loft!

Steve

sparkykev

I've been in quite a few lofts in my time, and i can't say i've come across many spiders, maybe because i'm not looking for them, but i don't think they like lofts that much, i guess they're too cold or too hot in the summer, too dusty, not much food, too itchy with that fibreglass, too dark lol.
Spiders like to live in your lounge, on the nice warm carpet, peeping out from under the sofa enjoying watching the soaps, sipping from your glass when you put it down.
I think you'll be safe up there.

Tam the bam

I've never found a Spider in my loft I must admit, under the floor there are plenty, nice and cool, plenty of insects to munch on too!

If you girls who hate spiders come across one or find one, don't kill it! Get 'em on a piece of paper or buy an insect catcher and set them free in the garden, remember Spiders kill the annoying flies and wasps etc, so even though they mightn't look pretty they are to be looked after!

Lee247

Not wimpy at all. You would not get me in our loft for love nor money. Right spooky place :shudder:
And, the other half took the pee out of me for screeching when spotting mahoosive spider on the wall. Brave soul gets his slipper, misses and the spider came down towards his head. I never knew men could scream

cookstar

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Not so worried about spiders, but I'd be expecting this bastid to be staring at me from down there.

*shudder.

Simon K

Spiders dont scare me .............

........... end of the month credit card statements, gas bills and electric bills do though ! ! brrrrrrrrrr

SBK

Jerome

Spiders I'm OK with until they get too big and or hairy.

I also saw camel spiders the middle east and they made my skin crawl.

In a UK loft, all I'd be worried about is a wasps nest. I'm a complete jessie when it comes to wasps. There is even a word for my phobia - spheksophobia.

SwissTony

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what a wuss

I think you need to harden the **** up !!!


Toughen Up video by cdodsworth - Photobucket