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vtsteam:
Here's hoping the tarps do their job! :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

And a good supply of buckets and pots and and cans if they don't -- as mine don't whenever I try to do something like that. Water pools in the cracks and spaces, bulges for awhile, and then.......ploink, ploink, ploink! :(

Pete W.:

--- Quote from: vtsteam on October 12, 2013, 02:38:51 PM ---Here's hoping the tarps do their job! :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

And a good supply of buckets and pots and and cans if they don't -- as mine don't whenever I try to do something like that. Water pools in the cracks and spaces, bulges for awhile, and then.......ploink, ploink, ploink! :(

--- End quote ---

Hi there, Steve,

:bang: :bang: :bang: :bang: :bang: :bang:

I regret to report that the tarps didn't!

I carefully covered the bare boards of the roof before leaving the job last evening, roping the tarpaulins' eyelets down to large screw eyes . It started to rain here later on. We went to visit a family member this morning and soon as we got home I went to check the shed. The tarps didn't seem to have kept any water out at all - everything is dripping wet! The contents of any upward facing vessels with a waterproof bottom (e.g. tote boxes) are probably swimming now!

As a temporary measure, I've spread out the heavy gauge polythene I intend to use as the vapour barrier on top of the tarpaulins and weighted it down with about about three dozen house bricks. It was too late to attempt a rescue operation this afternoon. A friend of ours lent us a dehumidifier a few months ago when our motor car was suffering rainwater ingress - I'll ask him if he can lend it to us again. That's once I've established that it's safe to switch on the electricity. Otherwise it'll be a mop and bucket job. :( :( :( :( :( :(

I suppose I could always ask my lovely but shy assistant if I can bring the lathe and drilling machine into the living room for a few days. :lol: :lol: :lol:

awemawson:
Pete, very sorry to hear that, anything I can do obviously ask. I do have a largish commercial de-humidifier you'd be welcome to borrow, but iirc you're the other end of the A272 so possibly a bit far to travel.

Do you have any places locally selling pelletised sawdust? I use it for spillages and it's excellent drawing the moisture out (The wife buys it by the half ton in 10kG bags for Goose bedding)

Lots of ventilation

Pete W.:
Hi there, Andrew,

Thank you for your post, your sympathy and for your kind offer. However, as you say, we're further apart than I have the time to travel - I'd rather spend the time mopping up. As I said, we might be able to borrow a dehumidifier closer to home.

A good hint about the saw-dust, though. We have yet another friend who makes kitchens and generates lots of sawdust; the only think is that his sawdust is predominately from MDF. Do you think that would be sufficiently absorbent? Or does it have to be pelletised?

awemawson:
Pelletised stuff is just easier to handle. I wouldn't hesitate, just dowse things in sawdust then sweep it up or clean it up with a wet'n dry workshop hoover. Put delicate stuff like verniers and dial guages in a poly bag with some rice from the kitchen - that sucks moisture out very well as well.

I've been known to pour cement powder on the floor in a crisis, but that was when a bottle of Hydrochloric Acid got spilled :bugeye: and the (alkaline ) cement not only absorbed the HCl but neutralised it as well. Loads of fizzing of course :ddb:

:zap: :zap: (Oh yes, life gets exciting round here sometimes) :zap: :zap:

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