With humid atmosphere, it is almost impossible to keep your storage area safe till next season. You have to ventilate storage boxes in tropical climate, keep your storage moisture free, an maintain a proper atmosphere for the required results.
Moisture can surely harm the storage, specially, clothes, electronics and fragile items like medicine, but a proper tropical climate make it impossible for one to store the necessities for a longer period of time. Let’s get some guidance for how to control moisture and humidity in tropical climates.
Understand Tropical Areas
Selection Of Right Storage
How To Choose Storage Boxes?
Specific Types Of Required Containers
Moisture Controllers
Humidity Monitors & Controlling Tips
Why Climate Controlled Storage Is Necessary?
Cross Ventilation
Elevate Your Storage Area
Air Flow
Inspection & Maintenance
Conclusion
Frequently Asked Questions
Simple and affordable ways are best ways to do anything. It is easy to install passive vents in storage containers to keep them ventilated and moisture free. They control airflow in the containers to keep them dry.
In small or home storage items, you can use drying agents like silica gel packets to dehumidify them and keep them dry further. But in storage facilities, you should use industrial size desiccants in the storage boxes and facilities as well to perform the ritual.
A method of cross ventilation is best to keep a storage ventilated and damp free. Install vents or exhausting fans on cross sides of storage. Size and number of vent should be according to storage area
Wind driven ventilation is the natural way for tropical climates to remain moisture free. Stale air is removed and replaced with fresh air from outside with the help of natural air flow system to keep the atmosphere fresh and humidity free.
Most known, economic friendly and best working moisture absorbers till date are still silica gel and charcoal packets. They are natural and affordable, not only they remove moisture, but charcoal is also best to keep the odor out of the room.
Before you proceed to store any item in the storage box, clean and dry it well before the process, keep the drying agents in the box to control humidity and maintain air flow for the box as well as for the storage.
Yes, camphor absorbs the humidity, not only this it is best agent to repel insects, and odor from the storage too.
