"Leonard Blaisdell" > wrote in message
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> In article >, Brooklyn1
> > wrote:
>
>> A swamp cooler adds way too much humidity, won't be long all the voids
>> in the walls will fill with black mold.
>
> I'll bet you can't even buy one at local stores. Swamp coolers work
> very well in places with low humidity, and they are very cheap to run.
> In areas of high humidity, they're moisture pumps. I ought to know.
> They're all I've ever owned. They don't seem to work worth a damn when
> it's raining outside which isn't often here.
>
> leo

Our heat spell has finally broken and the painter comes tomorrow! Yay! Now
if we can just see eye to eye on the trim color. He is pushing for black.
I just don't think that will look good, especially with the brown roof. The
main color is called either flower petal or rose petal. Can't remember
which. Sort of a medium tan/rose color but really more neutral than it is
pink. I wanted a very dark green or greenish blue. He doesn't think that
would look good. We have green trim now but the main color is bleh. Not
quite white, not quite beige. Just sort of a neutral, un-color.

Anyway... At the worst of our heat wave, I could only get the humidity up
to 27% even with the swamp cooler. It was seriously miserable. Right now
it is 71 in the house with 41% humidity. Feels really nice! It's 54
outside.

I can remember when I worked in the Garden Shop at K Mart. We kept the
outside doors propped open when it was busy and the air would get so dry! I
kept a spray bottle near the register and every so often I would spray the
air and breathe in deeply. The moisture felt really good.