Hello Lisa, I used to be really bad with spiders but I'm a bit better now. My Dad and brother used to tease me with them when I was younger. I dont think they realised the damage they were doing!

I once removed my whole bed, including mattress trying to find a spider in my bedroom. I am now much better with them though. My weapon of choice is the hoover! If you extend it to the max length and then aim and fire! Its not kind on the spiders but hell at least it means I can go back in the room. I have been known to then put the hoover outside just in case it could then crawl out of the hoover but so far I've never seen one do that! I also put a glass or other container over them and carefully slid a piece of paper under and then put the whole lot outside.

I think you would feel best by tackling this yourself rather than expecting your housemate to do it for you. You will feel a lot more in control if you do. I also try and think of the good things that spiders do, eg. great bird food, they eat flies, ants etc. so they do have a role to play. They are horrible but they wont hurt you and you can remove them. Just little by little, like exposure therapy in a way.