<VV> Re: Winter Storage (Carpet)

[Ken Wildman]

At 05:13 PM 12/6/2004, Alan and Clare Wesson wrote:
>>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...
Are you writing from experience?    :)
Ken