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snash222 t1_j069c7d wrote

Reply to comment by J3N0991 in Relative Humidity readings from my basement after carrying out remedial works - love that trend [OC] by J3N0991

Good work. Water in basement is a pain and not healthy!

It looks like your humidity is varying daily as your heat comes on, making the relative humidity drop, when the heat turns off (at night?) it gets colder and RH goes up.

Has it been getting much colder outside the past couple weeks? If so, that will drop the humidity overall as well.

Hopefully it was your work that caused the drop!

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J3N0991 OP t1_j06ao7x wrote

I think the nightly peak is caused by there being a bedroom in the basement so I think it’s a build up from the moist meat bag humans… 😂 In the daytime it’s just an office space for one. The first few days I had a dehumidifier running to hurry it along but that’s not even fired up in 4-5 days. Once other spaces are renovated it’ll just be an occasional guest bedroom so hopefully no peaks at all!

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AnaphoricReference t1_j06bln3 wrote

That would be my guess. Humidity in my home dropped from 60 to 40 in that same period in the Netherlands as the weather changed from very wet to freezing all day.

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