[78-L] Storage units

[David Lennick]

The units aren't hermetically sealed, they have roll-up doors so a bit of air 
can always enter. I had a different situation for a number of years..I rented a 
shipping container and used it for storage. It was airtight but the air wasn't 
great inside and the albums often showed mold on the spines and there was a 
permanent stale smell. Nothing affected the records but some of those albums 
still have an odor, 5 years later.

dl

On 1/15/2013 9:56 PM, Ron L'Herault wrote:
> Part of the problem may be that he opened the doors.  It would have been
> better not to go in.
>
> Ron L
>
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> Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 7:40 PM
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>
> I'll say YIKES since I know the units in question..interesting that this
> didn't happen last winter.
>
> Damp sleeves and records are not a good mix. Hey..I have two dehumidifiers.
> Want one?
>
> dl
>
> On 1/15/2013 7:25 PM, DAVID BURNHAM wrote:
>> While we have discussed storage conditions for records many times on this
> list, and have come to the conclusion that as long as temperature changes
> are gradual, records can tolerate temperature ranges from deep freeze to
> summer heat, I had a jolting experience the other day.  Toronto was enjoying
> spring like weather last weekend so I took the opportunity to visit my
> outdoor storage units.  You can imagine my horror when I saw that my storage
> cabinets were covered with water!  Not from a leaking pipe or any other kind
> of flooding, but from condensation;  obviously the cold steel cabinets
> contacting the temporarily warm air caused this.  All the doors were coated
> with mist and had droplets running down them and the handles looked like
> cold water pipes on a hot summer day.  I opened one of the cabinets and
> found the inside to be dry, which was a bit of a relief but records sitting
> on shelves not in cabinets had their envelopes all rippled as if they
>>    were wet and any record I took out of an envelope was also covered with
> mist.  This is a disturbing situation because Toronto's weather is such that
> there are always going to be warm spells in mid winter and although I assume
> this water would be very clean, it can't be good for these records to get
> wet, especially when, as in this case, the warm spell came to an abrupt end
> and the next day was below freezing - probably freezing the condensation on
> the surfaces of the records.
>>
>> This unit contains about 40,000 records so there isn't much I can do
>> about drying them off individually.  The only positive side of this
>> situation, (the glass being too full), is that if the records are
>> destroyed and must be disposed of, I'll save hundreds of dollars in
>> storage costs. :-(
>>
>> db
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