Saving Your Expensive Wood Inventory

I live in Southern California and store all of my wood in the garage. I installed a box fan in the gable at the back of the garage and it made a huge difference (about 20 degrees) in the temperature of the garage. Its a simple and cheap solution.

My son lives in San Diego and placed a humidifier as well as a temp controlled fan in his garage for his wood.

move to hollywood and store lumber in the wine cellar?

I don't have much experience with exotics, but I store a lot of green and finished wood in the garage, and my guess is that Fresno is as hot as LA.. I have a ceiling fan that runs on low/reverse 24/7 to keep the shop semi-bearable in summer.. also a few box fans and a portable swamp cooler that get used as needed.. My basic feeling is that if I can survive the heat, the wood can.. maybe with exotics, the concern would also be the low humidity in summer?

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Is the trick to get humidity up or down? Would an air conditioner be the wisest choice?

my guess, based on the OP saying that the problem was summer, that the humidity gets too low.. AC usually dries the air, but if you used a swamp (evaporative) cooler or a humidifier, you could probably maintain the same humidity year round..

mac

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Try this link. It is about how to build a solar kiln but does have a lot of info on humidity.