Collection storage/display advice. Mold?

[gex]

Found some property to store my TG16/PCE games

[mitsuman]

Do you have mold anywhere else in your house? Baseboards? Floor boards in ceiling of your basement?

[SignOfZeta]

I have a super humid garage. Due to the way the land lies it just gets ridiculously wet in there. I had a car with a semi-failed ignition coil and on really wet days it would misfire terribly before warming up. If you ever parked it anywhere else it would be fine.

Now my newer TDI has a slight hesitation sometimes after being parked there, possibly the same cause, although obviously problematic for different physical reasons since this engine has no ignition coil. Maybe the injector tips foul slightly if the first fire if day is super wet...don't know. I left town for a week, drove all over Ohio and Kentucky and didn't see this problem once.

Btw, the Miata starts fine, no issues relating to this.

[esteban]

I have a super humid garage. Due to the way the land lies it just gets ridiculously wet in there. I had a car with a semi-failed ignition coil and on really wet days it would misfire terribly before warming up. If you ever parked it anywhere else it would be fine.

Now my newer TDI has a slight hesitation sometimes after being parked there, possibly the same cause, although obviously problematic for different physical reasons since this engine has no ignition coil. Maybe the injector tips foul slightly if the first fire if day is super wet...don't know. I left town for a week, drove all over Ohio and Kentucky and didn't see this problem once.

Btw, the Miata starts fine, no issues relating to this.

I am pretty certain this post was meant for the "Should I sell my Wii?" thread.

Thank you.

[Keith Courage]

Unfortunately I live in an area where every house is on top of a crawl space with a very high water table. There was once some mold in my crawls but it has since been sprayed and killed and has not come back. Attic is clear and no other mold on anything in the house. Maybe some of the games I own came from an owner that used to have them in a damp area thus contaminating my other games once I packed said game in tightly on my shelf?

basically all my neighbors including myself have the issue of mold showing up on something if it is put in say a corner of a room with no ventilation. I have only had this happen to one other item in my house and it was an old CRT TV that I had pushed up against the wall and corner in my closet for over two years.

It doesn't get to hot where I keep my games since I do have AC.

So technically everything should be fine if I start to put all my games on a wall shelf that has no sides or top on it but I think I might try to find some plastic sleeves for my manuals to be on the safe side.

[SignOfZeta]

I wouldn't place too much value on the "foreign contamination" theory. You may be right, but all mold dies in the dry. All mold lives in the wet. It grew because it could.

My advice is to move. You obviously live in a really embarrassing place like Florida or something because you a) don't have a basement and b) have conveniently talked around your geographic location. If you can't move, ask a Brit here, odds are good that one of them must have a "damp" problem.

Here in Michigan it's mad humid in the summer. However it's also SUPER dry in the Winter so maybe that evens it out? We also have basements so...I've had mold there, no question. What I've learned though is that you will NEVER defeat mold without drying the place out first. Once it's dry, then you can get with the bleach and whatnot, but before that it's a waste of time.

[Keith Courage]

I'm in northwest Indiana just about an hour out of Chicago.

Probably going to be looking for a new house n the next 2-3 years but I until then I'll have to do my best to keep my manuals from deteriorating. Oddly enough all my pc engine manuals are perfect. Its just some of the us ones that are now in question.

[Necromancer]

The shitty art is committing suicide!

You can add a vapor barrier to the crawlspace.  It can be tough working in such tight places (giggitty), but it's not terribly expensive and doesn't require special tools or skills.

[spenoza]

Get a couple dehumidifiers, run them all the time, and resign yourself to a slightly higher electricity bill for a bit. It helps a lot.

[ClodBuster]

Open the windows wide for airflow. Turn, not tilt. I've seen too many homes got stung by mold due to the owners not caring about how to get proper airflow in their houses. They let the heating run in the winter and have windows constantly tilted, thus letting moisture from the air attached permanently into the cold masonry around the windows.

And seen enough other homes that were just wet from the ground up and would have needed serious rework to make them fine for healthy living again.

If there's mold on the paperwork, please try to imagine what type of contaminated air you might be actually breathing in this house.


Edit: I'm doing window and facade design/construction, installation and maintenance. So I have to deal with both new buildings as well as rework on older ones. How to create a healthy living environment is an important part of my job.

[Gypsy]

The shitty art is committing suicide!

You can add a vapor barrier to the crawlspace.  It can be tough working in such tight places (giggitty), but it's not terribly expensive and doesn't require special tools or skills.

Hooooowling.

[Keith Courage]

The shitty art is committing suicide!

You can add a vapor barrier to the crawlspace.  It can be tough working in such tight places (giggitty), but it's not terribly expensive and doesn't require special tools or skills.

Hooooowling.

regardless of my games I actually plan on doing a new vapor barrier for my crawl in the next month or so since the original plastic down there is ripped in areas and falling apart. This will probably help a lot.

[Dicer]

Found some property to store my TG16/PCE games

This got me...

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[TheClash603]

There was mold in the attic of the house I bought.  It was found during the inspection and remediation was a condition of the sale.  The cause of the mold was a shitty bathroom fan design, where wet air was being moved into the attic.  Once this fan was fixed and properly vented outside, the mold never came back.

Fix the moisture and you fix the mold, but you need to find the source first.  I'd start with a dehumidifier and go from there.