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Originally Posted by SeaHorse_Fanatic
Maybe a small dehumidifier might be easier & less intrusive?
Just a thought before punching holes into your wall  |
A good thought, I wouldn't be without mine; but ... to be fair, they are quite noisy and expensive to run. A hole may seem intrusive but if you do it right wouldn't be any worse than, say, a dryer vent, stove hood fan vent, or bathroom fan vent; when you're done with it you could patch it up (and if you have siding you can just get a new piece of siding and you'd never know there was a patch job underneath), and other than a fan to push air through it, the hole itself doesn't have any incremental costs of operation.
But with THAT said, if it was me, I'd be real nervous I'd screw something up. "Oh darn, I think the tank would look so much better over there instead."
I'm currently planning a tank room that will be serviced by a bathroom fan or two. Currently my tanks are pumping so much humidity into my house my poor dehumidifier is cranked nearly 24x7 just to keep the relative humidity at around 50%. Even so on a cold night I wake to find windows over my whole house so incredibly soaked that it looks as if they've been sprayed with a garden hose. So I'm afraid the dehumidifier is not up to the task anymore. I tried closing my vents and the air return for the furnace, in the basement, as a means to temporarily keep the humidity from escaping into the rest of the house; but this had unintended nasty consequences so I had to reopen them all (the basement became one little allergenic zone from the dust accumulation ... lesson learnt I guess that furnace filter really does have a useful function). Life with tanks can become a constant battle against the raging humidity (not usually a problem for Calgary ... you wouldn't beleive the looks I get from people when I tell them I have to run a dehumidifier ....
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Anyhow just some random thoughts, HTH..
