Hello,
We are having a humidity problem in our wine cellar/cold room. It is air tight and we are having mold grow on the ends of the corks.
Do you think installing an air conditioning unit in one of the walls would alleiviate this problem?
We suppose we would run it on a timer, on a daily basis.
The room is usually cold enough without one, except in the hot summer. And the biggest trouble is the humidity.
Any thoughts or other ideas?
Lucy
-Hi Bruce-
An air-conditioner, used as you describe, does act as a
This is what I thought. I want to remove moisture from the air, and not warm it up. So an A/C seemed to make sense.
An exhaust fan might do the trick as well, but as I have to vent it to a room in the basement, I'm worried about mustiness in the rest of the basement.
So, now, am I better off with A/C or a dehumidifier.
The thing about a dehumidifier is that if I put in in the wine cellar, I'm worried that it will end up heating the room. Do you think that would be the case?
Lucy
Lucy With all due respect, both air conditioners and dehumidifiers use energy and create waste heat that you will have to get rid of somehow. A dehumidifier would cause temperature variations in the wine room as it cycled, the air conditioner would pump heat into the rest of the basement.
It may be better to find the source of the dampness; it may be that your rain gutters are not working correctly if you have them. If the walls are made of block, some homeowners poke holes in the bottom of the block and build a drip tray around the walls to catch any water and drain it to a low point or sump pump. The better way is to break up the floor near the wall and do all of this under the floor if sealing the wall outside is not a good option.
The mold on the corks looks bad, but is not an issue with a proper cork. Wines are often stored in damp caves. If mold were an issue, we would have found that out 200 years ago. I know it sounds silly to ignore mold growing on the cork, but it is not an issue if the cork is sound. You just clean it off before opening.
I would fix the water problem anyway, it's not good for the foundation. Regards, Joe
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