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Why do owners of garages and underground car parks buy vinegar by the litre

  • June 13, 2023
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Throughout Moscow, traditional flat parking lots are being demolished en masse. Those same iron garages, which for many years were not so much a storage of cars, but

Why do owners of garages and underground car parks buy vinegar by the litre
Throughout Moscow, traditional flat parking lots are being demolished en masse. Those same iron garages, which for many years were not so much a storage of cars, but of various belongings. From now on, if you want a garage, buy a concrete, often underground structure for hundreds of thousands. Yes, they don’t freeze in winter and don’t turn red in summer, but they also have their own “problems”. The AvtoVzglyad portal tells about one of the main problems of the “car casemates” and how to solve it.

Native iron garages, which served as the people’s main pantry for nearly thirty years, were demolished en masse, assuaging the people’s anger with compensation. On the one hand, their property was taken away, on the other hand, “property” was often not, because the only document was a membership booklet issued by an organization that died 10-15 years ago.

There were, of course, honest garage teams who annually renewed the lease, paid for the lamp, and so on, but they were a minority. But let’s leave the discussions to stairwells and kitchen gatherings, and get back to the basics: megatons of goodness from the liquidated boxes have to be stored somewhere. Read, buy a garage that will not be demolished. And here there are two options: a parking lot or a full-fledged multi-level “concrete”.

In fact, they differ only in that the first has only “square meters” for parking a car, while the second has walls and gates that allow you to store not so much a vehicle as useful and necessary property, but no longer fit in an apartment and in the countryside. Oddly enough, but there is a choice: someone has enough parking space, in which, according to the laws of the cooperative, you can install a couple of cabinets, and someone needs a full-fledged “big pantry”. For prices, geography, fees – choose yourself, but you need to remember at least two things that the administration will not tell you about.

The first is water. Property should be inspected during or immediately after the rain, and best of all in the spring when the snow melts. Believe me, this is the best reason to negotiate, because water will be needed if the previous owner has not invested in a qualitative way in the maintenance of the building. The second is the population of an underground or multi-level cooperative. Not so much neighbors as “guests”: rats or cats.

With the former, the conversation is short: they are poisoned as carriers of dangerous diseases, but sensible people will not do this with the latter. “Murziks” are the only way to protect garages from rats, but they have a tendency not only to mark territory, but also to relieve themselves. A package left on the floor of the garage, whether with clothes or tires, has every chance of finding a new assortment of scents. And over time, it becomes a very big problem. However, it has a simple solution.

Believe me: nets, curtains and cat noises do not frighten and even warm up the curiosity of fluffy cats. Feed – don’t feed, but they smooth their way according to an algorithm they know, so a compassionate neighbor is a sentence. Only a folk remedy will help: vinegar. As it turns out, the lingering scent repels cats better than any brand — you just need to liberally shed the perimeter of the garage. By the way, vinegar also interrupts the “action-packed” smell of previous visits. So if you see a man buying several bottles of vinegar at the supermarket, you should know that most likely he has an underground garage. When barbecuing you need much less of this substance.

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Native iron garages, which served as the people’s main pantry for nearly thirty years, were demolished en masse, assuaging the people’s anger with compensation. On the one hand, their property was taken away, on the other hand, “property” was often not, because the only document was a membership booklet issued by an organization that died 10-15 years ago.

There were, of course, honest garage teams who annually renewed the lease, paid for the lamp, and so on, but they were a minority. But let’s leave the discussions to stairwells and kitchen gatherings, and get back to the basics: megatons of goodness from the liquidated boxes have to be stored somewhere. Read, buy a garage that will not be demolished. And here there are two options: a parking lot or a full-fledged multi-level “concrete”.

In fact, they differ only in that the first has only “square meters” for parking a car, while the second has walls and gates that allow you to store not so much a vehicle as useful and necessary property, but no longer fit in an apartment and in the countryside. Oddly enough, but there is a choice: someone has enough parking space, in which, according to the laws of the cooperative, you can install a couple of cabinets, and someone needs a full-fledged “big pantry”. For prices, geography, fees – choose yourself, but you need to remember at least two things that the administration will not tell you about.

The first is water. Property should be inspected during or immediately after the rain, and best of all in the spring when the snow melts. Believe me, this is the best reason to negotiate, because water will be needed if the previous owner has not invested in a qualitative way in the maintenance of the building. The second is the population of an underground or multi-level cooperative. Not so much neighbors as “guests”: rats or cats.

With the former, the conversation is short: they are poisoned as carriers of dangerous diseases, but sensible people will not do this with the latter. “Murziks” are the only way to protect garages from rats, but they have a tendency not only to mark territory, but also to relieve themselves. A package left on the floor of the garage, whether with clothes or tires, has every chance of finding a new assortment of scents. And over time, it becomes a very big problem. However, it has a simple solution.

Believe me: nets, curtains and cat noises do not frighten and even warm up the curiosity of fluffy cats. Feed – don’t feed, but they smooth their way according to an algorithm they know, so a compassionate neighbor is a sentence. Only a folk remedy will help: vinegar. As it turns out, the lingering scent repels cats better than any brand — you just need to liberally shed the perimeter of the garage. By the way, vinegar also interrupts the “action-packed” smell of previous visits. So if you see a man buying several bottles of vinegar at the supermarket, you should know that most likely he has an underground garage. When barbecuing you need much less of this substance.

Source: Avto Vzglyad

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