PestBye® Set of 1 Advanced Plug in Spider Repellent & Deterrent - Whole House Repeller - Get Rid of Spiders and Other Insects

Every single day for the past month, and at times over the last 4 years, my house was plagued with huge 2 - 3 inch fast running spiders. I have never in my life seen spiders so big and I was brought up on a farm! They are hairy, very scary and run at the most unbelievable speed. After doing a google search I think they are wolf spiders. The house was a new build 8 years ago and I believe that these monsters are living in the cavity walls. I have tried spider repellents and even contacted pet control companies, who told me spiders "are not pests" and secondly are not easily killed as they walk on their tip toes, I have spent a lot of time actually crying over these spiders. I can't describe the terror I have of them. In the week before I plugged this in I had seen between 25-30 spiders and had slept for 7 nights with the lights on. (My husband sleeps in a spare room.) The spiders were driving me insane. I received this device at 1pm and plugged it into the landing top of the stairs. I have seen a lot in the living room but also lots in my bedroom. I had been told to expect a lot of spiders over the next week as they might come out due to the noise and discomfort. That night I sat on my bed, with lights on and a bucket in my hand ready to throw it over the spider while I scream for my husband to rescue me. + lots of items to throw at the spiders should I miss with the bucket. I spider hunted while shaking like a leaf all night but not one spider came out. It is now day 5 and I haven't seen one monster lurking. Now considering in the 5 days before I had seen about 25, (6 in one night in my bedroom & on-suite) this clever little device must have made them run. (I even bought wellys to use indoors while I hunted the spiders and vacuumed. The spiders had me terrified) I have a 5 year old and he can't hear it so its safe for children. I put the device on the constant setting and high. For anyone else like me who has a huge phobia of spiders I would really recommend it.

I've used several of these products in the house and shed. They don't do anything to the skinny daddy longlegs spiders but do clear the area of the larger ones. However they do not stop the spider coming into your house in the first place, so if you live in an old house, have windows open or lots of vegetation around the border, they will come in. I did notice with this product a few dead spiders on the carpet in the first few weeks and have seen spiders standing almost dazed within a few feet of it. I can approach them and put them in a glass without them going nuts which is quite wired. I also recommend dethlac for doing any entrance points around the house, only areas they squeeze through though as spiders don't lick their feet (clean themselves) like flies, ants etc.

Please do not purchase this product if you have a cat, even though it says it will not harm a cat, when I switched on the product one of my cats immediately left her dinner (she was part way through eating it) and fled under the bed. Her body language showed she was very stressed and she started crying loudly (the only time she cries is on the way to the vets), she didn't stop crying until I turned the product off. My other cat was clearly not comfortable, his body language changed too. Later, I switched on the product briefly for a couple more times just to check the problem was actually with the PestBye Spider Repeller. It was, my cat fled again under the bed and was crying, she clearly was very distressed until I switched it off. My other cat wasn't happy and slunk along the floor. They are both house cats so couldn't go outside to get away from the noise emitted from the repeller. I just wanted to warn everyone that the information is misleading, the noise DOES have an affect on cats. Also, I haven't had a very large spider for a year (I bought this product to stop spiders appearing over the next couple of months) and about 3 minutes after switching on the product a huge spider appeared on the wall just a few inches from it. It clearly doesn't work, in fact I have a feeling it brings them out of their hiding places (which is what some other purchasers have experienced). If I were able to leave a minus rating, I would. My poor cats :(

Ok, I've had 3 of these installed in my house for 12 months now so I feel I am qualified to give a good review. That and I'm absolutely terrified of the eight legged freaks! I never even used to be able to say 'spider' I have an in-joke with friends and family who know I call them 'tinchy-stryders' as if anyone used the say the 'S' word I would freak out. I have one installed in my kitchen where I used to see 2-3 massive house spiders a day, (big bodies big legs very dark in colour and very frigging fast movers) as my kitchen doors lead into my garage and my back garden, which is close to a lot of overgrown woodland. I have 1 installed at the bottom of my stairs in my hallway and 1 upstairs on my landing. As you can probably tell, I have been so paranoid, they were coming out of my airing cupboard into my bedroom, in my bed, and I was constantly finding them on my stairs as well as the kitchen. During the first 4-6 weeks after installation I saw a lot more of them in my house, this I believe was due to the noise from the machines driving them out of hiding and into my house as they were trying to escape. If you can put up with finding them for a short period of time, and having someone on hand to eliminate them as you find them, (as my neighbour and boyfriend always were) then go for it! 4-6 weeks of seeing more of them is blinking well worth it for the rest of the year tinchy-stryder free. I must say that the plug-ins do not affect what I would call 'harvester spiders' or 'fairy spiders' as my mum calls them. These are the ones with tiny weeny bodies and long skinny legs. They float around really, they don't move fast either. They aren't affected by the machine and I still find these every now and then. But it's nothing a vacuum, a huge shoe, or a loving boyfriend can't sort out. It's the best thing I have ever tried to stop them from even entering my house. I have used 'no more spider sprays' all around my home, and I have placed orange peel and conkers in corners of rooms, and I have used clove oil all around my windows and door edges in the past. None of these things have done anywhere near as much for me as this plug-in has. This was the best £60 for the 3 plug-ins I bought that I have EVER spent. I am a genuine customer with a huge phobia of spiders, as about 7 years ago I had an infestation of 'wolf spiders' in my bedroom and by my back door in an old property I used to rent. I have been terrified ever since I saw a moving carpet of thousands of them. My fear may be irrational to some people, but for me it's real, and it used to stop me from going about my daily life from August to November specifically. Once it became mating season I was a crumbling wreck all the time. If any of you have an even slight fear of them, I urge you to try this product. It has used maybe £1 per year extra on my electricity bill, that's all. But the peace of mind this brings me is something I would of paid hundreds of pounds for. If you've got this far to read the end of this review I guarantee you will love and you need this product!

We have a lot less spiders, but we still a few so it has not totally eliminated them. On the box it says whole house protection, but when you read the small print it says only the room it operates in they should be eliminated. The whole house protection takes several months to activate as it relies on electrical currants from the device to travel throughout your home electric wire system thus giving off some noise throughout the building. We shall have to wait and see if this happens.

I had this working away for the last 4 years now. Even into the second year there was some beasts in the house. I assumed it was from the eggs the previous spiders in the partition wall, but the last 2 years I have been spider free.. mostly. I tend to only the type of spider that have really skinny legs, almost no body (like daddy long legs, but no wings). The vacuum takes care of them. But I never get the creepy hairy ones, or the ones with a thick body anymore. So concludes it don’t work on all spiders. But dose work!

September is a terrible month! Not only is it the end of summer and people start to mention Christmas way too early, but monster spiders come out to play. I was about to start charging these monsters rent and try for compensation for my frazzled nerves from screaming & jumping on to high surfaces several evenings a week, turning this grown woman into a jibbering and frenzied nutcase. Then I plugged this in! Judging from the previous week's scary visitors, this plug-in has reduced the monster spiders (whose legs this year would touch the entire rim of a large coffee mug, and who cheekily think that my home is theirs) by AT LEAST HALF. Wow. I might even go so far as to say 50-70% reduction. I am not so foolish as to believe that a plug-in would eliminate them completely and forever, but any reduction is a bonus to those who, like me, shuts all doors as soon as the sun goes down hot weather or not, and would not go up to bed if there was a spider on the stairs, or who will spend up to an hour trying and daring to drop an upturned plastic tub on a spider to trap it, and then write a huge note saying SPIDER --> on paper ready for my fiance to see and remove when he wakes up for work. So, yes, I recommend this plug-in. Stopping even just one creepy beast a week is worth the money, but like I said, for me, it has reduced them by at least half.

I bought this a while ago, but only started to use it this week. I have a vestibule which seems to be the only place I ever see spiders at this time of year. They terrify me and there is only me here so have no-one to get rid of them for me. I thought this would be a good investment for the vestibule. Perhaps it's too early to say, but there was a small spider on the ceiling 2 days ago, which is still alive but curled up. My delivery man got rid of it for me as there is no way on earth I can get close to them, last year in the vestibule I got one or two very large ones which totally terrified me,so it remains to be seen if this works on them or not. Time will tell. However, I think it is very misleading to say by the makers that this works for the whole house, then on reading the instructions they say it works in the room you plug it into - that's not the whole house. Hence 3 stars.