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Humidity

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Just wondering what people who park in high humidity parts of the country do? When we're camping we run the air & that controls humidity, but when the coach is parked, not in use, the humidity can be quite high. It was 80% yesterday. Are you running dehumidifiers?
Just wondering how you handle it................Steve Intrigue #10673

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Yahoo Message Number: 2368
Good question, I wonder what others are doing about this, too.
At home here in Florida, our coach is parked in the RV Port attached to our house. I set both a/c's to the mid 80's to keep the humidity down inside the coach. When the afternoon sunshine hits the windshield and front of the coach, the a/c's run periodically. On especially warm humid days I guess they remove up to a gallon of water.

Paul, '00 Magna #5762

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Yahoo Message Number: 2369
Steve,

We park our coach outside, 2 miles from the ocean in SC. We do not have any electric so we can not run any equipment so the only thing we do is vent the coach all the time. We have a hood over the bath room fan and we keep the cover to the fan up all the time. Been doing this 4 years and never had a problem. We also close all the blinds and put aluminum reflective material in the front and side windshields. Coach stays cool and dry. We also vent the coach this way when we camp in cold weather and we have never had any condensation any where in the coach.

Bill G. 2001 Magna
 

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Yahoo Message Number: 2372
Steve

We park our coach in a storage lot with some other RV's and boats.
We have a space that gets shaded each day starting about 1PM. While it still gets quite warm inside, I open the window over the sink a little and I open both overhead Fantastic fan vents just a little to allow some flow without taking a chance to rain coming in. Before I leave the coach I turn off both battery switches. All cabinet doors, refrigerator, large drawers and closet doors are open so air and moisture does not get trapped and will equalize
We also hang DAMP-RID bags in the closets. They are the kind you can get a Wal-Mart and they hang up like a clothes hanger. They last about 3-4 weeks and will absorb about one gallon of water in the collection bags between the two of them. We used to do something similar years ago using cans silica. The DAMP-RID seems to work well and so far no problem in the short time we have owned this coach.
Of course, with this being a new toy, I can't seem to stop doing some kind of project on it or taking it out for a run to the beach at least once during the weekend. I can't wait until retirement gets here the end of next year.

Jim & Barb Hughes
Jacksonville, FL

2000 Allure 40' #30511