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Laverdaroo:
Must'nt grumble Ted, ........your garage sounds warmer than 'our 'ous', it's bitter down here at the moment!
McCabe-Thiele (Ted):
--- Quote from: Laverdaroo on December 07, 2021, 04:32:33 PM ---Must'nt grumble Ted, ........your garage sounds warmer than 'our 'ous', it's bitter down here at the moment!
--- End quote ---
To hell with my carbon footprint I'm a nesh individual at the best of times turned our thermostat up again today. It's a toasty 74.3 F in our front lounge (23.5 C) - I turn it down a couple of noches at bed time. Really could use a decent time adjustable thermostat to turn the temperature down at night then ramp it up again automatically when we get up - even though we have a water bed I feel the cold in the night if it drops below 70 F.
Still waiting for my speedometer drive seals from DS so I can get the new front wheel in for the winter recess.
Laverdaroo:
To hell with my carbon footprint I'm a nesh individual at the best of times turned our thermostat up again today. It's a toasty 74.3 F in our front lounge (23.5 C) - I turn it down a couple of noches at bed time.
Oo, yer devil Ted ;D
Green1:
Air tests on new builds are a complete joke. I have had to tape and cling film windows and doors shut to make them pass. They only test a couple on the plots and sign the rest off.
I once worked on a new build Jewish place of worship you know the one begins with an S. I can't spell it so not going to try 😂.
The tall ceilings were designed to allow air flow to prevent still air.
To get it to pass they wrapped the entire roof with pallet wrap and then it only just passed. 😮
Your all softies it's currently 15c in my lounge.
Arfa:
Not sure if i should go back to the subject.... I'm lucky enough to have a garage where the bikes (and my lovely wife's car) live and I tinker with them, and a modern well insulated workshop. Before I lined the garage (its a sectional building) it was both cold and damp. I have one bike for day to day use and two (used to be 3!) which don't go out in the winter. Before lining the garage the "stored" bikes were bagged up in a Vac Bag which basically used a large dessicant charge and a big plastic bag. I found these worked very well over several winters, and any of you from a Defence background would be used to dessicant usage in storage.
The garage is now lined with a semi-permeable membrane and 50mm of rockwool plus 19mm OSB round all the walls. For the roof I put together a frame that stands insulation away from the roof panels to allow air to circualate above the insulation and hence deal with condensation. The insulation is one of these hi tech flexible rolls, about 40mm thick. I've also covered the back of the up and over door with similar stuff, and used rubber draft excluders. In all a bit of a faff but it was the cheapest solution to a garage rebuild and insulation. I use a fan heater if I'm working out there (unless petrol is involved) but the temperature is pretty bearable summer and winter. For example on a couple of freezing nights recently it didn't drop below 5 degrees, but on a longer cold spell it would drop further. The bikes are now unbagged and i use a small thermostatic controlled greenhouse heater under each one and last year I had no problems with this approach. I do drain the petrol from the stored bikes, by the way.
In the workshop I've got a couple of 500 watt IR heaters suspended from the ceiling and a wireless thermostat with manual overide controls them. I've set a frost setting but i don't think the heaters have come on this year. The heaters work very well for the uses i put the building to, and if any of you worked in a hangar you'll be familiar with IR heating.
Finally the condensation problem evidently has two factors, the releative humidity, and the air temperature, these are shown on a Psychrometric chart, plenty of them on the interweb for all sorts of gasses. So one either increases the temperature, or reduces the humidity to prevent condensation. In practical terms either dehumidify or heat or both, unless you're lucky enough to live somewhere that's not condensation prone. As an example at 80% RH (todays value outside) and an air temp of 10 degrees C, the dew point (where water will condense on a object) is about 7 degrees C. In other words if my bikes are held above 7 degrees than there won't be any condensation on them.
Not sure if that's helpful, anyhow, compliments of the season to you all. I should get out more......
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