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Damp trailer
I have a Schreder trailer that I'm having trouble dealing with mositure. It
is all metal including the floor and has good positive venting includng a solar vent. Despite this I can open the trailer after only a week and find evidence on my glider of signficant mositure. It may just be the dew cycle and I think what happens is we have a heavy dew overnight and then the folllowing days are cloudy/wet and the moisutre is not able to evaporate. Should I install more solar fans? I know this is an endelss debate....I have heard comments around sealing up the trailer instead and using dehumidifiers? are there any cordless dehumidifiers that could be placed in a trailer that would do the job. A few more years of this are going to kill the Simtec/Prestec. It just doesn'tlike the prolonged mositure. Anyone else had problems with Prestec deteriortating quickly from mositure? The only option may be to park the trailer inside. |
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Damp trailer
On Sep 20, 1:08*pm, Matt Rx wrote:
I have a Schreder trailer that I'm having trouble dealing with mositure. I live in Florida and have an all metal trailer. A fiberglass sailplane tucked away inside. The humidity down here is ridiculous, the inside walls of the trailer would condense the moisure like a glass of iced tea. I sealed up everything with weather stripping, painted the floor and then , now this is the important part, lined the entire interior with a 1/8" thick foam material. The same stuff they use for headliner padding underneath. Fairly dense material that resist water penetration. I think it ran me about $200.00. You could go thicker as many sizes are available. What this does is insulates the trailer from the heat and also creates a barrier that takes longer to cool off, therefore it inhibits the formation of moisture inside. I have not had an issue with moisure since. Took alot of measuring and cutting and than I glued it onto the walls with contact cement. Messy, smelly, not much fun. Definitely use a good respirator when doing this or you'll never live to tell anyone about your project, or you'll lose 99.9% of your brain and never be able to tell anyone about your project. Craig |
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