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Preserving books against mold?
I have a collection of several thousand books in a part of my
house that gets too humid in the summer time. The books can get moldy. I've dealt with that in the past with dehumidification, but in the last year electricity costs have gone through the roof in my state and it's getting really expensive. Has anyone successfully controlled mold by cheaper means - air circulation, lysol spray, ultraviolet light (which can also damage books), etc.? Thanks. |
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Preserving books against mold?
I have a collection of several thousand books in a part of my
house that gets too humid in the summer time. The books can get moldy. I've dealt with that in the past with dehumidification, but in the last year electricity costs have gone through the roof in my state and it's getting really expensive. Has anyone successfully controlled mold by cheaper means - air circulation, lysol spray, ultraviolet light (which can also damage books), etc.? A dehumidifier shouldn't cost much to run. Have you checked its power consumption, or the power consumption of the smallest one that will do the job? ==== j a c k at c a m p i n . m e . u k === http://www.campin.me.uk ==== Jack Campin, 11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland == mob 07800 739 557 CD-ROMs and free stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, and Mac logic fonts |
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Preserving books against mold?
Jack Campin - bogus address wrote:
I have a collection of several thousand books in a part of my house that gets too humid in the summer time. The books can get moldy. I've dealt with that in the past with dehumidification, but in the last year electricity costs have gone through the roof in my state and it's getting really expensive. Has anyone successfully controlled mold by cheaper means - air circulation, lysol spray, ultraviolet light (which can also damage books), etc.? A dehumidifier shouldn't cost much to run. Have you checked its power consumption, or the power consumption of the smallest one that will do the job? ==== j a c k at c a m p i n . m e . u k === http://www.campin.me.uk ==== Jack Campin, 11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland == mob 07800 739 557 CD-ROMs and free stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, and Mac logic fonts Air conditioning removes moisture as well as cooling the space. Air conditioning can be made less expensive with a heat pump. Air to air systems work well in the southern US. In the north, a ground water sourced heat pump (which pulverizes costs for both heating and cooling) or closed loop heat pump is the way to go. My SEER efficiency is in the range of 25+. High Efficiency (SEER 16 to 23) air conditioners (not heat pumps) cost about $3,500, but run with much reduced costs. And you will feel better too. Francis A. Miniter |
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Preserving books against mold?
"Francis A. Miniter" wrote in message
... Jack Campin - bogus address wrote: I have a collection of several thousand books in a part of my house that gets too humid in the summer time. The books can get moldy. I've dealt with that in the past with dehumidification, but in the last year electricity costs have gone through the roof in my state and it's getting really expensive. Has anyone successfully controlled mold by cheaper means - air circulation, lysol spray, ultraviolet light (which can also damage books), etc.? A dehumidifier shouldn't cost much to run. Have you checked its power consumption, or the power consumption of the smallest one that will do the job? ==== j a c k at c a m p i n . m e . u k === http://www.campin.me.uk ==== Jack Campin, 11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland == mob 07800 739 557 CD-ROMs and free stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, and Mac logic fonts Air conditioning removes moisture as well as cooling the space. Air conditioning can be made less expensive with a heat pump. Air to air systems work well in the southern US. In the north, a ground water sourced heat pump (which pulverizes costs for both heating and cooling) or closed loop heat pump is the way to go. My SEER efficiency is in the range of 25+. High Efficiency (SEER 16 to 23) air conditioners (not heat pumps) cost about $3,500, but run with much reduced costs. And you will feel better too. Francis A. Miniter Thank you for the replies. The current rate for electricity in my area (Baltimore Maryland) is 11.4 cents per kilowatt hour. That works out to about $82/ month for an appliance that uses 1000 watts. It appears that a small dehumidifier may use about 840 watts. If it runs about half the time, that works out to 420 watts average or about 34.50 per month. Over a five month period, that's about $172. I think that, in fact, the rates may be a bit higher because there are other charges tacked on to the base rate for electricity. A ground water heat pump is a great idea. It would also save me money on heating in the winter, since all I have is an air heat pump, no gas or oil heating (which aren't cheap anyway). But, alas, they are expensive to install. I'm now looking at two other interesting solutions. One is chlorine dioxide. It's described he http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/byorg.../an26-618.html Another is to put a simple exhaust fan in my basement (where my books currently reside) to draw warmer and dryer air down to the basement from the rest of the house through an open basement door. That may use about 35 watts when running, less than 1/10th the cost of the dehumidifier, though maybe not as effective. The chlorine dioxide approach is related to Shane's suggestion of spraying a fine mist of bleach - but perhaps a little safer since Cl02 is said to be well tested as non-toxic for humans. Thanks again. Alan The actual usage depends on how long t |
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Preserving books against mold?
On May 25, 11:43*pm, "Shane" wrote:
"Alan Meyer" wrote in message ... I have a collection of several thousand books in a part of my house that gets too humid in the summer time. *The books can get moldy. Bleach is supposed to kill mold and someone once posted that spraying books with a fine mist of bleach protects them, but I haven't tried that one myself. Fire kills mold too, why not set your books on fire? |
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Preserving books against mold?
"Alan Meyer" wrote in message
... I have a collection of several thousand books in a part of my house that gets too humid in the summer time. The books can get moldy. Bleach is supposed to kill mold and someone once posted that spraying books with a fine mist of bleach protects them, but I haven't tried that one myself. |
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Preserving books against mold?
I have a collection of several thousand books in a part of my
house that gets too humid in the summer time. The books can get moldy. I've dealt with that in the past with dehumidification, but in the last year electricity costs have gone through the roof in my state and it's getting really expensive. Has anyone successfully controlled mold by cheaper means - air circulation, lysol spray, ultraviolet light (which can also damage books), etc.? A dehumidifier shouldn't cost much to run. Have you checked its power consumption, or the power consumption of the smallest one that will do the job? Air conditioning removes moisture as well as cooling the space. Air conditioning can be made less expensive with a heat pump. If you just want to control mould you don't need cooling. A couple of thousand years of manuscripts preserved in desert environments says so. High Efficiency (SEER 16 to 23) air conditioners (not heat pumps) cost about $3,500, but run with much reduced costs. I bought my dehumidifier second-hand for fifty pounds. Our power consumption had dropped a fair bit since, as I don't need to run a heater in there very often. No air conditioner can ever be very efficient. They are always a grotesque waste of energy. The world simply can't afford them. If you can't handle the climate where you are, abandon the place to people who aren't such goddamn wimps. Probably the greatest manuscript library of all time was that of mediaeval Baghdad, destroyed by the Mongols under Hulagu - they wrote all that without needing air conditioners. And there are plenty of people in present day Baghdad who'd happily trade their bombed-out houses for yours even if they didn't get AC with it. ==== j a c k at c a m p i n . m e . u k === http://www.campin.me.uk ==== Jack Campin, 11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland == mob 07800 739 557 CD-ROMs and free stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, and Mac logic fonts |
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Preserving books against mold?
Ο "Alan Meyer" έγραψε στο μήνυμα ... I have a collection of several thousand books in a part of my house that gets too humid in the summer time. The books can get moldy. I've dealt with that in the past with dehumidification, but in the last year electricity costs have gone through the roof in my state and it's getting really expensive. Has anyone successfully controlled mold by cheaper means - air circulation, lysol spray, ultraviolet light (which can also damage books), etc.? We had the same problem in our house. We bought a dehumidifier, and ran it for a couple of years. The humidity has disappeared. The dehumidifier *is* a heat pump, it cools the air so that it drops water. The heating part is in the same machine, and heats the air after it has been cooled, and the water has been removed. Although its power rating is not so great 700-800 W, its *energy* consumption is enormous, like 100 euros on every two-moth electricity bill. -- Tzortzakakis Dimitrios major in electrical engineering mechanized infantry reservist hordad AT otenet DOT gr |
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Preserving books against mold?
Shane wrote:
Fire kills mold too, why not set your books on fire? Evidently, you didn't read the below excerpt from Mr. Meyer's post, confirming bleach as being closely related to chlorine dioxide. Dip your moldy books in bleach to rid them of the damaging scourge. "The chlorine dioxide approach is related to Shane's suggestion of spraying a fine mist of bleach - but perhaps a little safer since Cl02 is said to be well tested as non-toxic for humans." Interesting. I see that it can be buffered to pHs above 7.0 and still act as a biocide. Francis A. Miniter |
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Preserving books against mold?
Fire kills mold too, why not set your books on fire?
Evidently, you didn't read the below excerpt from Mr. Meyer's post, confirming bleach as being closely related to chlorine dioxide. Dip your moldy books in bleach to rid them of the damaging scourge. "The chlorine dioxide approach is related to Shane's suggestion of spraying a fine mist of bleach - but perhaps a little safer since Cl02 is said to be well tested as non-toxic for humans." |
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