A question for Island dwellers off the mainland?

[McCabe-Thiele (Ted)]

Are places like Anglesey, Orkneys & Shetland full of humid salty sea air inland?
Does this impact on your bikes?

[Martin6]

We live on an island on the north Essex coast. About 1/3mile from the sea. I rely on ACF50. I have a significant winter condensation problem in my brick built garage, despite adding ventilation. Worst I've ever experienced, since we moved here 11 years ago. We get through brake discs every 3 to 4 years on our cars, due to corrosion, not wear. Usually the rears.

[McCabe-Thiele (Ted)]

We live on an island on the north Essex coast. About 1/3mile from the sea. I rely on ACF50. I have a significant winter condensation problem in my brick built garage, despite adding ventilation. Worst I've ever experienced, since we moved here 11 years ago. We get through brake discs every 3 to 4 years on our cars, due to corrosion, not wear. Usually the rears.

Not sure what mileage you cover in your cars, my Volvo has only done 17k miles and the outer edges are badly corroded already. at 3 years old.

I have read somewhere that a wooden shed is better than a brick built garage, I dont have a wooden shed either.

[Nurse Julie]

Never lived on an island but lived on a shingle spit that sticks out 3 miles into the English Channel, Dungeness. Salt in the air all the time, no trees to lessen the impact of high winds or filter the salt and a landscape as flat as a pancake, everything was salty all the time, even plastic rusted 😂😂😂😂.

[Rozabikes Tim]

even plastic rusted 😂😂😂😂.
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You very fahnee laydee Julie!

[Bryanj]

As i started as a marine engineer yes plastic "rust" in marine environment, even fiberglass degrades

[McCabe-Thiele (Ted)]

We live on an island on the north Essex coast. About 1/3mile from the sea. I rely on ACF50. I have a significant winter condensation problem in my brick built garage, despite adding ventilation. Worst I've ever experienced, since we moved here 11 years ago. We get through brake discs every 3 to 4 years on our cars, due to corrosion, not wear. Usually the rears.

Canvy Island perchance, sounds idylic.

[Orcade-Ian]

Well we've been in Orkney for 20 years this coming November and yes, lots of salt laden air, windows sometimes near impossible to see out of!  We are on the North West corner of the Orkney Mainland about half a mile from the coast of the Atlantic when looking North and about a mile from the same ocean when looking west, so not far from the tidal Island of the Brough of Birsay.  When we were in Lancashire, also by the coast and also facing west, my workshop, built of 9" hollow concrete blocks was far more damp than the present one here, built from 4" solids and rendered and harled.  I have never heated either of them (apart from an occasional hot air dryer for painted parts - and the more regular bouts of swearing!)
Strange thing is though - when we were south I struggled to keep rust from the lathe and milling machine, whereas I don't even need to cover them up and they never rust now.
I also have a large dry stone shed and I built a wooden shed within that and that really is cosy and some of the bikes sleep in there.
You certainly wouldn't leave precious items outside, they will rust before your very eyes!  But I think as the temperature range is only between 0 degrees and 20 degrees with much slower transitions, rust on things inside is not as bad as in Lancashire where the range was minus 10 to plus 30 with many rapid changes producing 'instant damp' days where even the tyres dripped water.  We also suffer from the 'Orkney brake discs' as our everyday Jazz has to sleep outside.
Johnny is in the Town, so may have different experiences.

Ian

[Honda enthusiast]

I've lived here in the Inner Hebrides for twenty years, the first winter was hell with salt laden sea winds and damp steadings , the bikes had condensation and the start of white corrosion on the bare polished alloy. I got the steadings re roofed and put in a false insulated ceiling along with new insulated concrete floors, the doors fit well now and the big shed has a sbr/cement slurry painted on the walls to stop damp ingress. The workshop and the big shed have a Mitsubishi dehumidifier each with a controller humidistat so all's well. No condensation or corrosion now and both are slightly warmed in freezing temps by the hot gas defrost on the dehumidifiers...they cost to run but not much, shame you can't buy this type anymore

[McCabe-Thiele (Ted)]

"Steadings" I had to look that word up, not one I've heard before, possibly mainly used north of Hadrian's Wall.
Then again you probably dont use words like Snicket but use Ginnel instead.

[Martin6]

We live on an island on the north Essex coast. About 1/3mile from the sea. I rely on ACF50. I have a significant winter condensation problem in my brick built garage, despite adding ventilation. Worst I've ever experienced, since we moved here 11 years ago. We get through brake discs every 3 to 4 years on our cars, due to corrosion, not wear. Usually the rears.

Canvy Island perchance, sounds idylic.

East Mersea, Mersea Island. 60 miles north of and a fair bit quieter than Canvey. It is pretty special, but miles from anywhere civilised. The sort of place 'you make your own fun'!   

[McCabe-Thiele (Ted)]

Mersea Island, looks idyllic for the young who don't need access to a hospital on a regular basis, have they built a bridge to it or is it tidal dependent still?

[Honda enthusiast]

"Steadings" I had to look that word up, not one I've heard before, possibly mainly used north of Hadrian's Wall.
Then again you probably dont use words like Snicket but use Ginnel instead.

There's a good few words just used in Scotland, Ted and yes ginell is one but that one is also used in the North west of England...wait till you come across old Scots, it's a language of its own and takes some fathoming out 😊👍

[taysidedragon]

The local Dundonian dialect is hard to follow for a Taffy!

[andy120t]

In Beverley we use 'racket' for some if the town centre passageways.