Let's Just Get It Over With, ok?

[nervous]

Look. This isn't going to be an interesting thread, ok? But they cant all be winners. So let's just get this wrapped up as soon as possible and we can all go about our business, ok? Good. Here goes.

I've just had a new shed built for my bikes.

That's not the thread by the way, not even I am desperate enough to boast about owning a shed. Well, maybe a bit but it's still not the thread.

So, this new shed. It's really dry and lovely (still not bragging) and my bikes are all happy in there sitting trickle charging away while I patiently slash impatiently wait another 5 months before I can use them again. However, when I pulled the nice quality bike covers off today for boredome slash it's do that or do some work reasons, they were all covered in condensation, despite the covers feeling dry.

So, what to do about that? Leave them without covers? Leave a heater on? Get a dehumidifier? Leave a pile of tenners burning in the corner? I can't think them being damp is good for them and sort of defeats the object of the shed in the first place, so if you can tell me what to do for the best I promise I'll shut up and go away.

Thanks in advance, apologies for the ocean-going levels of tedium.

[moanthebairns]

Covers only work if

A) in a dry atmosphere
B) breathable and all AIR to pass though.

This is why I cover outside but in my shed I don't as I have the same problem.

Solutions,

heater - no, expensive and is great at removing moisture just makes it humid as fk
de-humidifier - My God these are good, you can get a decent one from Argos for £80, I've had mines 3 years and put it on in my flat to remove the moisture in the air from drying clothes, cooking and the shower. Can take 2 litres out of my room in 12 hours. Staggering what it collects. It also heats the room up because it emits warm air without moisture. Costs a few pence to run an hour. Amazing creations honest to God, dries washing in no time. Be great for a shed.

acf - 50 the bikes and forget about it.

[Fubles]

cheap and easy option would be some of the disposable dehumidifiers you can buy in any pound store etc.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Various-18-x-Interior-Dehu...



Or you could retro fit same fans to the covers attach a small dehumidifier somewhere nearby and connect them all with an intricate network of piping.

[nervous]

So, cover them in goo and run a dehumidifier then get back to watching The Rockford Files? Excellent. This has worked out great. Thank you

[nervous]

Fubles said:

cheap and easy option would be some of the disposable dehumidifiers you can buy in any pound store etc.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Various-18-x-Interior-Dehu...



Or you could retro fit same fans to the covers attach a small dehumidifier somewhere nearby and connect them all with an intricate network of piping.

Oooo. Intricate, you say? That sounds like a bit of me. That'll waste AGES. Brilliant. Do we think a drawbridge for each cover is too showy?

[y2blade]

I use an "INDOOR" cover for mine in the workshop at home.


Dry as a bone

[nervous]

y2blade said:

I use an "INDOOR" cover for mine in the workshop at home.


Dry as a bone

Mine are all indoor covers, too. But then my bones are all wet too, so maybe I'm not using either of them right.

[creampuff]

Fubles said:

cheap and easy option would be some of the disposable dehumidifiers you can buy in any pound store etc.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Various-18-x-Interior-Dehu...

Oh crap, I've been buying these from Homebase.... for a lot more than a pound.

Anyway, I think these would be pointless for a shed unless it is very well sealed. There is a lot of water in the air. This type of absorbant dehumidifier will only work somewhere that you plan to leave where there is no airflow. Eg I stick one in an indoor cupboard which isn't opened often. For places where air is circulating, forget it as another poster said they can get a couple of litres out of their electric dehumidifier a day.

[moanthebairns]

They tubs are st unless its a shoe cupboard or something.

[nervous]

So, covers off, dehumidifier on, yes?

[nervous]

moanthebairns said:

They tubs are st unless its a shoe cupboard or something.

I probably should have said: my shed is in a shoe cupboard. Will this make a difference?

[moanthebairns]

nervous said:

So, covers off, dehumidifier on, yes?

at over kill, a tin of acf-50 and leave. That's what I do.

I have a wooden shed, when It rains for a while the timber gets saturated and does create damp but nothing to worry about.

[nervous]

moanthebairns said:

at over kill, a tin of acf-50 and leave. That's what I do.

I have a wooden shed, when It rains for a while the timber gets saturated and does create damp but nothing to worry about.

Brilliant. Ta.

And to think people say we don't know how to have a good time.

[crofty1984]

nervous said:

Fubles said:

cheap and easy option would be some of the disposable dehumidifiers you can buy in any pound store etc.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Various-18-x-Interior-Dehu...



Or you could retro fit same fans to the covers attach a small dehumidifier somewhere nearby and connect them all with an intricate network of piping.

Oooo. Intricate, you say? That sounds like a bit of me. That'll waste AGES. Brilliant. Do we think a drawbridge for each cover is too showy?

A drawbridge is NEVER too showy!

[nervous]

I knew I kept you around for a reason.

[Harry H]

I use old fitted cotton sheets. The elastic round the corners makes them fit nicely. Bike stays warm and dust free. Cotton lets em breath.

I might get em an old duvet and some nice pillows as well so they're all nice and snug for the winter.

[MC Bodge]

Harry H said:

I use old fitted cotton sheets. The elastic round the corners makes them fit nicely. Bike stays warm and dust free. Cotton lets em breath.

I might get em an old duvet and some nice pillows as well so they're all nice and snug for the winter.

Old Duvet covers here

[BobSaunders]

Marine heaters. They are designed for engine bays and cabins for over the winter period when they are land bound and subsequently left to build up moisture etc.

Cheap to run - only a few pence a day.

[Biker's Nemesis]

http://www.coopersofstortford.co.uk/src/gbase/coop...

[podman]

Changes in tempreature and humdity cause the condensation, which causes all our delicate, plated exotic metals to fur away.

Its the reason why starting your bikes, getting them good and hot and them bunging them back in the shed emusifies the oil and leaves the whole bike dripping with damp as all that hot metal cools ,drawing all that moisture to it.

Thats why heaters in a confined space are not much good too.

ACF50 is no doubt a good product and has its applications for those all weather types and i do have a can but you dont need it on a bike sat in a shed or garage, motor oil or good old fashioned smear of grease does an equally good job, for a fraction of the cost, ive seen a chrome bike rim that was covered in grease 25 years ago, it was like new with a quick wipe ..I very much doubt ACF50 would have done as good a job.