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So, we've. Been in our house for about 6 months now and the Mrs is getting tired of the bike being in the house.
We have a shed, it's old and needs knocking down, but I'm a total arachnophobia sufferer and if the bike goes in I'll never get it out.
What external bike storage are people using?
I've concrete and a ground anchor.
How would a metal storage unit be? Just big enough for the one bike maybe two.
Yes I know I should just man up but I can't. They are my nemesis.
Rule 5.
Get in there with a vacuum cleaner and clear them out. You'll still get spiders in a metal shed.
Burn the shed to the ground concrete the anchor in and go crazy building 🙂
Install a cat in the shed.
No more spiders.
When I say metal shed I mean more of a bike box where I just lift it out. It's the going in and out I can't deal with.
Last time a soider crawled out of my handlebar and I nearly crashed the car!
What a bargain!
If I were you I'd conquer my fear of spiders, more bluntly put - man up.
Best of luck 😉
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Could you purchase a bird costume an put that on to go into the shed? I believe birds eat spiders so I expect they would all run away when they saw you.
Ha ha great ideas so far.
I've tried the bird suit but I was attacked by next doors cat.
I've cleared out under the stairs and with both wheels off it just about fits. Need to find a way to keep the rear mech off the floor though.
I've decided to clear out the shed, get expanding foam and caulk in all the crack, spray eucalyptus and peppermint spray and just get the bike in there.
Now I need advice on shed door alarms and better kicks for the front.
MoseyMTB - MemberNow I need advice on shed door alarms
I have a wireless, night vision, baby monitor in the shed. 🙂
Muffet the f*** up!
My bike lives in the hall in the house.
It would get cold in the garage
It's my only thing.
Heights, wasps etc nothing!
But spiders I can't crack it.
Make your shed spider unfriendly?
http://www.homecareessentials.co.uk/acatalog/No_More_Spiders.html?gclid=CjwKEAjwhJmwBRDGsamBu8Pp7FwSJACKD1KHKyFHBp0mc1nScvzoNeQYejMalxGoLh82xsN2iYRBnBoCQjHw_wcB
Move house to one with a garage or a cheaper option would be to man the **** up, ffs spiders! Did they tickle your vagina? grow a backbone.
So Jekyll, do you have any fears?
Rats? Snakes? Heights? Itchy shins?
why respond with that comment?
lol itchy shins.
I'm sorry, it was meant jokey (partly) as spiders in the UK can't hurt you, it's a little difficult to understand. Don't take my comments to heart.
It's a little difficult to understand.
I know ha! I can't work it out at all. They just get me!
I know they can't hear me and I know it's irrational, I just can't shake it.
Plus the ones in my shed are bloody massive!
Build yourself a Cedarwood shed, a mate has a cedarwood chalet in his forest and it smells amazing when you are sat inside it and spiders/insects hate the smell.
Ask your wife to go get the bike out the shed as she obviously is the one with balls in the house 😆
Asgaurd would be my choice if the bikes worth any money for security. As for spiders as someone else has said just Hoover them away every now and again.
The wife is even worse ha!
I'm the one who moves the wasps, the ants, the everything else.
Like I said it's just the spiders that get me.
My wife gets hysterical over them.......so I do understand your fear......just don't try cankers in the corners of the shed Only it don't work!
One thing that may work is a liberal spraying of all the surfaces inside the shed with fly/wasp spray......it seems to keep them away from all the alarm sensors in our house following having an issue with false alarms caused by the big buggers tramp,I got all over the sensors.
Now I need advice on shed door alarms
Can't you just use a spider-deterrent spray like everyone else... 🙂
Timba, you've just made me spit out my tea laughing!
My wife thinks I'm crazy!
Well you'll be happy to know that I have officially become a real man.
I fixed the shed floor, swept out all the cobwebs and removed (wearing gloves mind) 4 huge spiders!
Problem is the wife thinks I'm cured and I'll have to move everyone now.
Bonus news is that I found a box with all my new disc rotors in.
Hey if you managed it with gloves on you're cured in my eyes!
Until one runs into the cuff of your gloves........ 😆
But, what about the spiders in the house..........
One nearly got past the glove and one was on my head but I didn't know at first.
The shed looks ace now and I've a place for everything. Rigged up a mains powered light too.
Might move in and live there.