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Longhorn789
03-08-2007, 05:11 PM
What do you know about dehumidifiers?

I'd like to build my own house in a few years. I'm already thinking about how I will build a gun room that will double as a tornado shelter. I've looked at a few sites, and have been thinking about a pad site where the house sits on the top and side of a hill. You would enter on the top floor, but could exit out the back door of the bottom floor...and also have a drive that terminates at a garage in the lower back.

I'm figuring either a basement, which is rare in Texas. Or, a concrete room. Concrete roof, walls, the works. The top and side of hill idea would be a combination of both designs. I'd also install a heavy steel security door and frame so I can sell off these heavy-arse EXPENSIVE gun safes that I have accumulated and get my cash back out of them.

I'd like a backdoor that opens to the outside..preferrably to a field so I can shoot...then step back inside and tinker.

HOWEVER, I don't know anything about dehumidifier systems. Ideally, I would like the room to be air-tight, and served with a small package unit in conjunction with a dehumidifier so the firearms would stay rust-free in the ultra-dry environment.

Anyone know anything about dehumidifier systems?!??!?
LostInTexas
03-08-2007, 05:20 PM
Talk to some of the safe companies out there. They have vault doors that may suit your needs better. They also have commercial dehumidifiers that should pull all the moisture out.
Longhorn789
03-08-2007, 05:37 PM
Talk to some of the safe companies out there. They have vault doors that may suit your needs better. They also have commercial dehumidifiers that should pull all the moisture out.


I installed a dehumidifier on a clean room about 5 years ago...but it was a BIG and expensive deal. I was hoping there was a smaller, residential model that someone here may be familiar with....
cimmaronkid
03-08-2007, 05:40 PM
Longhorn, easier way is to move to Phoenix and bring all those guns and shoot with me.(LOL) Seriously, if you check with some of the people that build bank vaults, they can give you the names of several companies that specalize in these large units. Probably cheaper to move to AZ.
Longhorn789
03-08-2007, 06:38 PM
Longhorn, easier way is to move to Phoenix and bring all those guns and shoot with me.(LOL) Seriously, if you check with some of the people that build bank vaults, they can give you the names of several companies that specalize in these large units. Probably cheaper to move to AZ.


That's a good idea. I built two banks long way back, however, the vault area was always not in my contract. They had their OWN people for that. Maybe I can scare up a contact from those days...
rustypirate
03-08-2007, 07:25 PM
Longhorn, check this site out...

http://www.sylvane.com/dehumidifiers.html
weasel_master
03-08-2007, 08:56 PM
I remember reading somewhere about people talking of building rooms like that. They say though that no humidity is bad for the stocks. If I recall right it was around 40% they said was best.
KnobCreek
03-08-2007, 09:09 PM
Where I live, our basement gets rather humid in the summer months, so I run a regular dehumidifier to keep the moisture down. During the winter months, our heater runs and I have several vents in the basement. For eahc vault that I have, I have a golden rod installed to keep the moisture down, but I still make sure that each rifle is oiled down well prior to storage.
Longhorn789
03-08-2007, 11:21 PM
Longhorn, check this site out...

http://www.sylvane.com/dehumidifiers.html

Good selection!

Thanks...
nevada
03-09-2007, 01:59 AM
5% - 7% humidity in Vegas. Nothing happening to my gun stocks.
okie shooter
03-09-2007, 08:01 AM
Longhorn, for just a room or for lots of places even a home to keep the humidity down all you need is one of the portable dehumidifiers. In the summer, which you have a long summer to cool thru, remember your ac coil will do plenty of dehumidification at that time. Another way to keep your safes dry though is to use the silica gel bags, and regenerate them when they get saturated.