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Hi I just finished insulating and installing pine panneling in my cold room.I would like your help on controlling humidity and temperature. I live in Canada therefore in winter it gets cold but in the summer it gets too hot. In winter i have a heater and for the summer I just baught a second hand refrigirator system with an evaporator. I did not install the refrigerator unit since it is starting to get cold and the heater system will go on soon. My question is in the winter the humidity is at approx 40-50% and in the summer it goes up to 80-90%. don't know what effect the evaporator will have. To control humidity do I need a humidifier in winter and a deshumidifier in summer. This is starting to get a lot of equipment in there. Any suggestions on how my setup should be. Also how did othersset up their systems. How did you put your temperature setings so the heater and refrigerator don't cancel themselves out. TIA

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erables40
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I don't feel that these humidity swings will be too detrimental. You may want to have a pan of water standing there during winter, filling it if/when needed - but whether that works to raise humidity is another question :-) - experiment! Anders

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Anders Tørneskog

I don't think that these humidities are a problem. It is was 80-90% full time you might have mold issues, but winter should deal with that. And 40-50% for a few months isn't enough in my opinion to dry out corks.

You definitely don't want a dehumidfier in there, will up heat. Even worse case scenario for high humidity is just label issues. I'd go with Anders suggestion of a pan of water (with a towel for wick) if really worried re winter.

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DaleW

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