We just got back from the Sunshine Coast, mosquitoes were bad in the evening on the beach, horseflies were pretty brutal during the day by the lake too this year.

Horseflies are ruthless. I was cliff jumping at Kawkawa and had cut my knee on a rock at some point and this little bastard proceeded to treat my kneecap like an AYCE buffet. I ended up running as fast as I could until I was out of breath and when I finally stopped that asshole was right there for another bite. So off the cliff I went back into the lake just to get away and where I had to jump from was less than ideal :lol

I thought I had loads of time but showed up there at 7:30 :lol still managed to board the 8am so that was cool, heading back took longer!

I have very little in the way of mosquitos. I make sure there is no standing water anywhere on the property. My Neighbours do the same. The park that's in the are has no streams or ponds. If you live anywhere near a large body of water, you're screwed.

I don't put anything on my skin. No chemicals, please. I already put enough shit in my body eating processed junk food, gulolol.

I don't even put on sun tan lotion. I grew up working out in the fields (berry picking). I just turn brown = no sunburn. In my younger days, I looked like a Somalian. I shit you not.


Anyway..................... carry on carrying on.

So I’m not going to be driving our car for 3+ months or so. Insurance is under the wife’s name and she pays about $240 a month for insurance I think. So over those 3 months it’s almost $700

Would it be an idea to cancel the insurance and just put storage insurance on it? We’d have to put it at my parents place to get it off the street etc. just not sure about cancelling the current policy etc. we do the auto plan 12 currently with the automatic withdrawals

When does your insurance expire?

Cancel and put it in storage is the safest route. And yes, make sure it is storage in a garage and not on the street.

You'll get a prorated refund from when you cancel. Once it's cancelled, they won't deduct the monthly amount from your bank account.

Can I store it on their property not in a garage? Ie. under a car cover beside their house.

Never had storage insurance so not sure if it matters where it’s parked as long as it’s on private property?

My insurance agent always told me it's okay as long as it's on your property and not on the street. I've had two cars sitting for years without insurance. House insurance covers anything stored at the house. The cars were always alarmed and on trickle chargers. It's like my trailers. Two out of the three are not insured via ICBC. I use them as storage units, gulolol. Like garden sheds, but on wheels.

Is one of them an 89blkcivic? Curious as to what RS resident ojiisan has lying around :considered:

Honda Ridgeline and Honda Fit. Both are now insured and back on the road. Need truck to haul garbage to dump (Summer only). Fit still gets 35 MPG and is really, really fun to drive. Left leg (clutch) gets a workout but................ being one with the car. Can't beat that. Can still chirp the tires in two gears in stock form. Nitrous again............. maybe. the 89 was supercharged and nitroused. All behind me now. Too old for this shit, hee hee.

The downside to full out cancelling your existing policy is that you'll have to return your plates, and then pay the plate fee when you do put insurance back on (storage insurance does not follow license plate). Not a huge fee, and you'll probably save more cancelling, but it's still a hassle.

Yep, I've had vehicles on storage policies outside for years. It just can't be on a public street at all unless being towed by a professional or towed with no wheels on the ground (ie flat deck). A neighbour once complained to bylaw because even though the tires were on my property the rear bumper was hanging over the street.

Did the bylaw officer consider the overhanging bumper to be on public streets?

Irrelevant to the above:

My buddy lives in a newer townhouse complex in Langley. The parking infront of the garage can only fit smaller cars, anyone with a truck / van / bigger SUV has the bumper hanging 6" - 12" on the complex "road".

Some dickhead keeps complaining to strata, and everyone keeps getting letters that the car must be on their "driveway".
There's like 60 units, and about 15 of those get letters.

The actual road, infront of the complex, already has parking maxed out, so now theres 15 more cars that need to fit in somewhere, or walk 3-4 blocks to find parking

I would go on strata just to find out who it is, and make their life hell. Mind your own shit fuck face

My neighbours truck is about 4ft too long for his space and it makes parking my car a bit difficult. He brings me meat that he gets hunting to say thanks for not complaining, it takes me 7 seconds longer to park my car. If people could just understand how to not be passive aggressive fuckin weiners, their lives would be way easier.

The guy told me he honestly wasn't entirely sure but for liability reasons it'd be best not to have it overhanging at all. It wasn't a huge deal to move it, it just made it a little tighter walking around the front of the car, so I didn't bother checking.

Are there any mosquito creams that work on bites?

Also are there any mosquito sprays / solutions that actually work?

I saw this $150 mosquito trap at costco, tempted to just toss it on my balcony to get rid of any bugs lol.

If you're at home, just take a hairdryer and blow it over the bit part. Helps relieve itching for 3-4 hours.

No personal experience but have heard good things about the Thermacell stuff. Can get pretty pricey and you have buy re-fills and stuff though. Friend that is stingy is fck thinks they're well worth it though so thats a sign of confidence.

From an owner's/resident's perspective, it sucks.

But, look at it from the strata's perspective - that car overhanging their driveway and onto the road (e.g. common property which is the responsibility of the strata) creates a liability for the strata. What happens if someone injures themselves from a car that's partly on common property? Particularly if it's not an actual resident, but some sort of third party like a visitor or a contractor? All of the owners suffer because that would result in an insurance claim for the strata.

One thing we do at home, not sure how effective it is to reduce itch but it sure feels good, is to put a spoon under hot water (but not boiling hot that it burns the skin), and then place the hot spoon on the mosquito bite FeelsGoodMan

Honestly in those scenarios the developer should have thought the design out better rather than with greed top of mind.

We built sooooo many townhomes where the concrete slab going into your garage was JUST big enough for a compact car. But then people fill their garage with garbage and then you move a sedan out onto thay slab, then the neighbours see and move an SUV out there. Next thing you know the end unit has a truck half on the road half on the slab.

The designs should be very clear in terms of whether you can park a vehicle on that slab or not. It shouldn’t be left up to strata law or some ambiguous interpretation of common property as to what can park there and what can’t

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if youre talking about this thing, it doesnt work. I tried it for 2 years now and attracts everything BUT mosquitoes. Mostly moths and butterflies.

Municipalities set the parking requirements. In townhouse zones, that typically means 2 cars within a strata lot. So, the developer will build a tandem garage that's long enough to accommodate two cars. The driveway is usually an afterthought and only constructed as part of some mandatory setback from the common driveway.

Sure, it's developer 'greed'. They build to the minimum or design the property with marketability in mind. I haven't seen many sales brochures with long driveways to accommodate a full-size pickup with a hitch as a feature. Most customers don't care enough to demand long driveways, at least not yet.

Bought this recently on sale and hooked it up. Agreed seems to mostly catch moths and random flies, not so much mosquitoes.

Also annoying that it doesn't kill them, simply traps them. You'd have to wait it out for them to die before disposing, otherwise they'll simply escape if you open it up to clean out the bin.