Brutkey

JL Johnson :veri_mast:
@User47@vmst.io

This old house has a humidity problem which became quite evident when we had an episode of “crying walls.” 😱

So I’ve been eyeing a dehumidifier for a while, and Costco got me. The thing pulled a gallon of water out of our air in 8 hours. That seems like a lot?

JL Johnson :veri_mast:
@User47@vmst.io

I understand relative and absolute humidity but never had a need to understand what that means in actual volumes.

Guess that’ll be my procrastination project this morning.

JL Johnson :veri_mast:
@User47@vmst.io

First observation: The default math is all metric. Except for temps. I’m all-in for metric w/ most things (not speed, or ambient temps) but I guess in order to do this exercise I need to get comfortable w/ square and cubic meters. I’m cool w/ meters but my intuitive anchor struggles to accept them squared or cubed. So this’ll be fun.

Aaron Sawdey, Ph.D.
@acsawdey@fosstodon.org

@User47@vmst.io I always find looking at the dew point to be a good way to understand the humidity level, it makes it independent of temperature. And it’s very similar to absolute humidity but generally much easier to find/calculate. A gallon in 8 hours is quite a bit but not unprecedented. Just means you got a decent dehumidifier, and it’s damp in your house.

JL Johnson :veri_mast:
@User47@vmst.io

@acsawdey@fosstodon.org it was consistently mid/high 50s, peaked at 62 which was just disgusting. Ambient temps. ~71-78

JL Johnson :veri_mast:
@User47@vmst.io

@acsawdey@fosstodon.org it was consistently mid/high 50s, peaked at 62 which was just disgusting. Ambient temps. ~71-78