Right- the cloudy water/Ethanol layer and the gas on top- I wrote that mine was just gas on top of liquid water and it was only cloudy after shaking the bottle, but it settled out later. There's no milky layer and in phase separation, the only way to remedy it is to remove the layer with water/alcohol.
The slab is behind my garage and the only time enough air moves is during high wind.
One problem here is that the bill for my duplex shows two fees that are twice as much as a single family home and when I traded messages with the Mayor (small city), he thought I have two water mains and sewer laterals. It's not a lot per quarter, but over more than 25 years, it adds up. We have our own water treatment facility and they just spent a bundle for improvements- I don't remember seeing any notices about it, just that the rates were going up.
Yup - mothballs work good. We put mothballs, under plastic, on the seats of our boats. Also, for storage, I stuff a dryer sheet into mower exhausts and over the air cleaner box. I use discarded plastic food containers with holes in them.
Yes. I agree rodents can really do a lot of damage to a mower stored outside.
