<VV> Re: Winter Storage (Carpet)

[Alan and Clare Wesson]

> I would like to see what others think about putting carpet underneath the
> car on the garage floor. I have a scrap piece under my stored ' vert with
> the idea it "isolates" the car from the potentially moist floor. My floor
> only gets damp when the floor is cool and the air is warmer and moist. Do
> you suppose that I would be better off without carpet?

My experience is that the carpets do indeed hold some moisture, but that it 
doesn't rise from them, and that they don't increase the atmospheric 
moisture content at all (it's pretty high in an ex-farm-shed in Britain in 
the winter) - most of the moisture seems to be generated by temperature 
change (condensation formed when metal things warm and cool, and it is too 
cold for it then to evaporate, because 'warm' in winter isn't actually very 
warm at all).

but they certainly don't do the cars any harm, and they do reduce 
condensation to some extent by insulating against the aforementioned cold.

Cheers

Alan

P.S. They can be a bit smelly though, depending on how clean they were when 
they were removed from whatever hose they were in - mine that I have now 
came from the house we live in, but I used to use ones from a dumpster and 
they were bit varied. It is my advice to avoid ones with toilet-shaped 
cut-outs in them...

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