Rapid temperature rise causing rust - check your workshops!

[optima21]

I oiled items in my garage before the weather got cold.......

I'll wait for the condensation to evaporate again.

for me its a bit like shovelling snow, if you wait long enough it goes without you needing to do anything.

 

[Onoff]

I just posted this in the low temperature workshop thread, then deleted and posted here.

Anyway, peed off with the garage here. Block built, single skin. Truss rafters, felt, battens and concrete tiles. It has a DPM under the slab. DPC under the block walls.

Everything inside is covered in condensation.

All I can think is to improve the ventilation.

 

[MattF]

It's gutting when you see condensation, or rust forming, on your tools & machinery.

 

[Alan Reynolds]

My new wooden shed was nice and dry. The internal garage door had condensation on it and the garage felt very damp. The lathe was soaking and so were all the cans and bottles on the shelves. I’ll investigate all the tool drawers tomorrow when I’ve got less time. No time today as all the neighbours have been ringing the doorbell with jobs for me. Led torch dead. New coat with press stud ripped off, mobility scooter not driving and a digital radio, and a warm air vent that they want blasting. Why me? I never get time to tidy up before the next jobs arrive.perhaps I need to make a New Years resolution to say no.

 

[Alan Reynolds]

And the workbench needs a tidy up too! OCD suffers nightmare.

 

[Cobbler]

And I thought my shed was a muddle

 

[brightspark]

and i thought my garage was like a tip

 

[brightspark]

snap

 

[qwakers]

my workshop is dripping, the underside of the car is wet, the tools are wet, i've had water running down the walls before but nothing like this on surfaces inside the workshop.

 

[brewdexta]

I think mine will be fine, I've been keeping it at 6c during the cold spell but I must admit I'm worried after previous experiences. Last year I dropped the workshop temperature by about 1c inadvertently when I raised the temp sensor a few feet during a tidying session and got the dreaded condensation. It's a balance between costing and arm and a leg or keeping the rust at bay.

I shall have to go out to the workshop for a look when I take the dog for her evening ablusions.

 

[RichardM]

I just posted this in the low temperature workshop thread, then deleted and posted here.

Anyway, peed off with the garage here. Block built, single skin. Truss rafters, felt, battens and concrete tiles. It has a DPM under the slab. DPC under the block walls.

Everything inside is covered in condensation.

All I can think is to improve the ventilation.

Mine's single skin, built onto the end of the bungalow, probably no DPM. Same sort of roof (which has a leak and bucket!), but the "loft" area is plaster boarded (ceiling) so keeps the ventilation through the loft area only.
Doors have been kept shut, no ventilation through the garage area, I'll wait for the outside to dry off before playing with the doors open again.

 

[fizzy]

Reading all these horror stories perhaps my draughty freezing old warehouse isn't so bad after all.

 

[sparkysy]

Not just my workshop but the back of my van has done the same! Everything is soaked, oh joy of joys, need to buy shares in blue roll rags and oil.
+ mine is an absolute tip too actually both the van and workshop. Hoping for a bit of time off soon to sort them both out. Keep getting call outs which are not helping with the tidying!
Sy

 

[minimutly]

I just posted this in the low temperature workshop thread, then deleted and posted here.

Anyway, peed off with the garage here. Block built, single skin. Truss rafters, felt, battens and concrete tiles. It has a DPM under the slab. DPC under the block walls.

Everything inside is covered in condensation.

All I can think is to improve the ventilation.

Improving ventilation won’t stop it. It could help clear it after it’s formed, but when all the inside is at minus 10, and you get air at 14 degrees full of moisture getting in there, the whole place is a big dehumidifier, metal especially.

 

[Alan Reynolds]

And I thought my shed was a muddle

I’m glad we aRe not alone.

 

[Onoff]

I've even got condensation running down the sides of a Wharfdale speaker I refinished years back and that's wood!

 

[minimutly]

I've even got condensation running down the sides of a Wharfdale speaker I refinished years back and that's wood!

Cold wood

 

[Onoff]

Cold wood

What's weird is it's next to its sister speaker I never got around to refinishing and that's dry.

 

[Onoff]

Cold, damp, bloody frost pit of a valley here!

 

[Gareth J]

Heh, I was expecting a thread like this. Even the tools inside drawers are sweating. Inevitable really but in more organised times, I'd have put the tools away and anticipated it happening and run the woodburner flat out for a day to try to rise the temperature of the thermal mass of everything a bit.