new project car with a few more spiders than wanted

Grumpy

The Grumpy Grease Monkey mechanical engineer.
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grumpy, I bought a project car and when I put in in the shop I found it had dozens of spiders in it, I don,t want them in the shop and I don,t want to soak the car in insecticides either, any ideas??


now this might sound crazy but I have a neighbor that had a similar issue and he tried something that seemed to work well,he freaks out when spiders crawl on him under the car!
he simply closed the shop garage door with the kerosene heater pumping hot air under his car while it was up on jack stands. he set off a single bug bomb, under his car, then poured a cup of house cleaner (AMMONIA) on the floor to make breathing in a closed shop difficult,
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then heated the 2 car garage shop (not attached to his house) to a temp level that he read on line kills almost any bug, as a very effective secondary way to kill crawling pests.
here in florida spiders and bugs and mice can be an issue, when they got bad in his project car he simply fired up the shop heater he uses in the winter on that miserable 2-3 day long florida winter cold snap when the shop temps dip into the 40s , he did this on a hot day where shop temps already were near 95 deg F
and raised the shop temps to about 120F-124F for two hours
he kept checking the inside temps with his INFRARED TEMP gun, after two hours he said he found numerous dead insects on the shop floor but none in the car.
http://www.sportsmansguide.com/product/index/mr-he...

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after the two hours he opened the shop garage doors and turned off the heater and swears the combo of heat and ammonia fumes would kill anything, he opened the garage doors , turned on the ceiling fans and let the place air out for an hour or two and said it seemed to clear out every bug in the area, and had left no odor or problems
 
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