It's been over 90% humidity in Milwaukee for the last couple weeks and Ive been having a hard time keeping my humi under 75% rh. The A/C isnt on in my apt. complex yet, so I have resorted to other ways to lower the rh. I took out the round credo, put a lid full or rice and added some small blocks of spanish cedar, but with only minor success.
Then it hit me, I was adding blocks of wood that were not really dry, so I put some of my cedar blocks and boxes (from samplers, coffin cigars etc) and put them in my oven on warm (about 150-175 degrees) in hopes of drying them out. I put some of the dried wood in my humi and in about a day it has gone down to 70.
This sounds like a good solution in my case, but the only thing I worry about is that a couple of the pieces I used were not solid cedar but were laminate. Would heating them release some glue gases?
Then it hit me, I was adding blocks of wood that were not really dry, so I put some of my cedar blocks and boxes (from samplers, coffin cigars etc) and put them in my oven on warm (about 150-175 degrees) in hopes of drying them out. I put some of the dried wood in my humi and in about a day it has gone down to 70.
This sounds like a good solution in my case, but the only thing I worry about is that a couple of the pieces I used were not solid cedar but were laminate. Would heating them release some glue gases?