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RR Fan Dan

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Anyone using one? Both of my insulated metal barn/garages are dirt floors, so not exactly climate controlled. Humidity is always high. Right now in winter it’s over 50%. Anyone have experience using them?
 
I’d put heavy plastic down atleast. The whole place. Keep the moisture in the ground. Sounds like a greenhouse
 
Not related to your question but, why dirt floors in a insulated building?
Mike
Possibly grade beam was poured, building erected to keep things weather protected. Floor to be poured later.
40 years ago we built a year round cabin on a lake in the North.
Poured the grade beam. Put gravel down.
Built a pony wall and insulated it. Put vapour barrier on the floor and pony walls.
Did not insulate the cabin floor. No moisture or rot anywhere yet. All wooden construction including interior cedar walls.
 
Not related to your question but, why dirt floors in a insulated building?
60 year old house. Dirt floor used to be common. Just to be clear, the dirt floors are not causing the humidity problem. The relative humidity where i live is the problem. It’s usually 80-100% in the summer and always over 50% in the winter. Unless you have a sealed insulated climate control garage, humidity is going to be a problem. I only mentioned the dirt floors because driving on and off the bubble. So back to the original question, does anyone use a bubble and would they recommend?
 
Not a bubble per se, but a cocoon. Just be careful said bubble has provisions to ventilate humidity. DAMHIK

Yes, this is the Newport.

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Nevermind then, I misunderstood your question.
No worries. According to the bubble website description, the ventilation does move the humid air around, but it’s the condensation from the humidity that condenses on and in the car that is the problem. The ventilation keeps condensation from forming and the bubble keeps dirt and dust off the car. I’m wondering if anyone here is using one and what are their thoughts on it? They make both indoor and outdoor bubbles. The outdoor ones are little more sturdy for snow and rain. Both indoor and outdoor models use the same mil thickness floors, so I assume the indoor model would work fine with my dirt floors.

 
Car jacket look them up i have one and it comes with moisture packets.
The moisture packets only last so long and then you have to microwave them to re-activate. Been there, done that. Not to mention with the set up I had, you had to crawl into the cocoon and retrieve them, then put em back. Won't make that mistake again.

I like the one @RR Fan Dan posted above. 9 bills is pretty steep for the outdoor one I would have purchased for the Newport if I had known about it, but you could probably reuse it at some point.
 
60 year old house. Dirt floor used to be common. Just to be clear, the dirt floors are not causing the humidity problem. The relative humidity where i live is the problem. It’s usually 80-100% in the summer and always over 50% in the winter. Unless you have a sealed insulated climate control garage, humidity is going to be a problem. I only mentioned the dirt floors because driving on and off the bubble. So back to the original question, does anyone use a bubble and would they recommend?
WOW! Didn’t think of that much humidity, don’t even know if dehumidifiers would work. Don’t even know if exhaust fans would work. Can’t fathom it.
Off topic, my Uncle and Aunt lived on Vancouver Island British Columbia. He had. 56 Cadillac. Didn’t drive it much, the mufflers rusted out sitting in his wooden garage by 1964.
We parked our original 67 Charger that we still own in a wooden Machine shed at my parents farm in 1976. Gravel floors, no increase in rust when we took it out of storage in 1983. It is rusty because it was our daily driver all season car. Enough of my boring details.
OH! We need humidifiers here in the winter months in our homes,
 
probably reuse it at some point.
They are made to reuse.
don’t even know if dehumidifiers
I have one in the garage and it does collect moisture but not enough. Car still sweats. An industrial one would cost 3 times as much as the bubble. So I thought I would try the bubble.
 
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