Humidity-Sheltered Storage

[Bill Ballard]

I have to create some long-term storage in an unweatherized small 
frame building. I could put four grands and one (maybe two) before I 
have to used a crow-bar.

Single story with low roof, the front 1/3 would be storage. The 
framing is good but it sits 18" above dirt. We're on the side of a 
hill, so there is ground moisture breathing up through the 
floorboards. I thought I would lay down a vapor barrier of poly 
sheeting and completely go up the back (North) wall of that room and 
on the front (South) wall, I'd go up to the sills of the old casement 
windows.

All of this clear plastic sheeting would be covered, the floor with 
tempered hardboard, and the walls with something durable and less 
expensive than hardboard.

The Southern Vermont summer has humidity from 40-90%, and temps from 
-15 to +90º F. I knew it would at least be an improvement over the 
local Chuck'n'Lock self-storage, certainly in price.

Have any of you had to weatherize for storage under such conditions? 
Please don't tell me to study Bhuddism, I wouldn't do that to you.

TIA

Mr. Bill Ballard RPT
NH Chapter, P.T.G.

"Round here we don't talk unless we can improve on the silence."
     ...........Ron Rude, local Public Radio Commentator.
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