Mold in the shop question

That matches with my experience in a shop in a garage in New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, and now slower lower Delaware. I did put the books, etc.,
in a cabinet just to keep dirt from settling on them. No mold problems
either. We are about 3 miles from the Atlantic Ocean here, so tools do
have a good wipe-down of oil, as they can/will rust here.

"Dukes909" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> I sent a friend the pictures I posted in abpw of the shop cabinet I built.
> He replied that it was his experience that if I don't have excellent
> ventilation in the shop my magazines and books stored int he cabinet will
> get moldy. My shop is a separate building heated only while I'm in
there,
> cooled the same, on a slab with insulation in the attic and walls, slab
> floor. I use the Boeshield stuff on my tools as a precaution.
>
> I haven't noticed any mold (fly droppings another matter)in the shop in
the
> 2 years I've had it on any leftover lumber or papers etc. but I've not
left
> magazines, books in there for any length of time. Any thoughts on this?
>

My garage is everything. It's my workshop, it's my bodyshop, it's my
service bay, at times we clear everything out of the way and jam in it, and
I park my cars in it. It's like yours - insulated, heated when I'm out
there, on a concrete slab. I'm in Central NY, and we get humid enough
weather here. I've had all kinds of wood, books, manuals, etc. in my garage
for years - a decade. No mold of any kind. Some mouse turds from time to
time, but no mold.

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