28 Aug
2012
28 Aug
'12
12:23 p.m.
whats a good dehumidfyer the basement walls at my mothers allways sweat in
the summer and is causing mold atm as a result gotta rip out all the
insulation... can get down to -40 in the winter here....
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Shoppa, Tim <tshoppa at wmata.com> wrote:
So I finally
have one of them fancy dehumidifiers that has a finely
adjustable humidi-stat in the basement to keep the collection dry.
Required listening, the Traveling Wilburys "Cool Dry Place".
What's the ideal setting? I know too dry
isn't a good thing, for neither
the collection nor my house. Right now I've got it set to 40% and it's
running pretty aggressively. My basement hovers between 55 and 60 degrees
Fahrenheit throughout the year, and the dehumidifier figures out relative
humidity for you.
I think 40% is a little too aggressively low and my dehumidifier would run
pretty much continuously May-September if I had it set that low. 60% is a
better ballpark and only during the most humid parts of summer does my
basement dehumidifier run more than a few hours a day.
I will sometimes go as low as 30% setting during the summer but only when
I want to demonstrate my Wimshurst machine :-)
Tim.