Let's Just Get It Over With, ok?

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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.

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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

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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?

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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.

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So, covers off, dehumidifier on, yes?

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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?

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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.

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I knew I kept you around for a reason.

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Biker's Nemesis said:

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

BN do you have any experience of that/ those models of dehumidifier?

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HertsBiker said:

Outdoors mine live, mostly with a cover.

Wait. Are you the guy that keeps calling me and saying "a sister, you have" then hanging up? Because it's not funny.

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Wedg1e said:

I have a dehumidifier that I bought for £69 from Bodgit & Quik nine years ago to dry out Wedg1e Villas after a leaking shower incident... then I found it was great for drying clothes overnight in winter. It's probably run virtually continuously for six of those nine years, week in, week out. On a damp laundry day it'll pull 6L out of the air in as many hours.

I don't use it for the bikes though.

No one likes a show off.

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LiquidGnome said:

5 months!? Are your bikes made of paper mache?

Yes. And Whey. Aren't yours?

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Wacky Racer said:

This. You will be amazed how often you have to empty the collection tank.

Lift the dehumidifier up a couple of feet, (Stand it on a stool), drill a very small hole in your shed and run a hosepipe from the dehumidifier outlet (taking the tank out), through the hole so the water continuously drains outside onto the grass/hardstanding.

All this is assuming you have an electric supply to your shed.

It will cost a bit in electric all winter, but this is small fry compared to possible damage to your bikes.

(If your dehumidifier (like mine) has a plastic trip tumbler stop, wedge it open so you get continuous drainage.)

Also done this in my motorhome, I reckon it's removed about ten bathfuls of water, that otherwise would have been absorbed into the walls, causing damp issues.

Thanks WR, much appreciated. Thanks to all of you folks, too.

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Wedg1e said:

Yes they do. Have you never seen that TV show, Keeping Up With The Wedgashians?

Is that the one where that family of people with overly capacious fibreglass boots moan that they have too much resin to use and only forever to spend it in?

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moanthebairns said:

its more the boot.

Then get your boot regassed! Jeez.

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fergus said:

Nervy, I had the same problem, and got one of these: http://www.meaco.com/proddetail.asp?prod=DD8LJunio... Result - no more condensation and as the air is drier, it's also warmer, which further reduces the likelihood of the dew point being triggered by cold metal.

That tiny little thing, Ferg? Really?

Plus, that dehumidifier is small.

That's right. It's a nob joke. What of it?

This post needs work.