How to reduce HUMIDITY and get rid of MOLD on or OFF GRID ~ works after HURRICANES
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How to reduce humidity and get rid of mold, mildew and moisture in your house. Budget Friendly product. We learned this from the Amish
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OFF GRID with DOUG & STACY Awesome, thanks for sharing! Quick question when you mentioned vapor barrier... So the vapor barrier goes on the ground or attached directly beneath the house ?
We have that here in Japan already packaged in bags that look like a little pillow. When I renovate old houses I always put down some thick plastic on the ground under the house (old houses often have a perimeter foundation with pier blocks in the middle of the house so there is bare ground everywhere which means LOTS of humidity in the summer). The bags get spread around on the plastic, I put LOTS of them down there and they absorb the moisture, then in the winter months it is VERY dry here and the humidity is released, and by the next summer the bags are ready to absorb moisture again. Of course as we are on grid I put ventilation fans down there on a humidistat as well, but just the bags work well too.
Cheers from Tokyo!
Agree the plastic is a must! it blocks smells from the soil itself too, like mildew. Isn't calcium chloride a deicer for walks n drives?
@The Tokyo Craftsman
The "ventilation fans on the humidistat" that you spoke about using...are you referring to an electric dehumidifier? (THANK YOU VERY MUCH for your reply, in advance!)
I've got to try this. I'm in our family home and it's got tons of moisture. Causes my health to get bad. Can't move or afford upgrades or renovations.
@@geraldb8856 Oh thanks! I'm gonna get some charcoal!
The Tokyo Craftsman » I'm curious what is in the bags you use? It's not calcium chloride because that dissolves into the water.
Great tip, but FYI the water that your collecting is really liquid Calcium chloride, it will continue to absorb moisture. The thing is this is a very corrosive liquid, and care should be take. As not to allow it to contact any substrate like metal of any kind, additionally this product works best with even minimal air flow over it. It’s a great concept just care should be taken if you have kids or pets that can contact it. Thanks for sharing
@forrest johnson....All well said. I appreciate you saving me all that typing....LOL. CaCl2 is what we add to water in rear tractor tires to prevent freezing. (It's another form of 'salt'). But it is HIGHLY corrosive to iron.
So how do you dispose of the water?!
@Veronica Scott....I kill my weeds with it. It's just another form of salt. So even tho it will will 'sterilize' soil for a few years, it won't 'poison' it forever. The soil microbes and fungi will break it down and eventually the weeds come back. Won't hurt a thing in the mid term. Great stuff.
is there another way to get rid of the water? Can it be diluted?
@Rivka Flashner....."diluted'' WHY? It is by NO means a 'thion poison'. It won't 'harm' anything but weeds or metals for a year or 2 until the soil microbes break it down to basic minerals. Just pour it into the cracks in your sidewalks and stop worrying about weeds there for a few years. Hell, you can even pour it onto a 'long term' compost pile, (such as wood chips). Don't fret yourself over it.
Kinda hilarious how everyone telling me how to THINK is modern, but everyone helping me to LIVE is old fashioned. Thank you for this excellent advice sir.
This is the MOST useful piece of information I have heard this entire month! I will use your technique for my cellar and in my crawl space 😊
Oh my gosh! Perfect timing. My basement just flooded last night. Thank you so much for sharing this video. You nuggets are always appreciated here!
Awesome! As a veteran of several hurricanes and even more humid summers, this will be extremely handy! Thanks!
What a great idea! One other thing your flowers are beautiful! And I really like the pots on the window! I remember watching the video when you all introduced those special hangers! Have a blessed day!!!😊♥️
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To reactivate the the calcium chloride, just heat it up in the oven. When it loses the pink color it's ready to use again.
That sodium chloride trick would also help with keeping spiders out as well from your home. They love dark, moist, damp areas to set up housekeeping. Great tip!
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It is also sold at pool stores as a calcium increaser. Just in case anyone Ives by a pool store. Thanks so much for the info!
Good to know! Whether you are off grid or not, moisture is always an issue! Thanks for sharing!!
I love your nuggets. Every one is pure gold. Thank you.
I'm in WI and don't have a dehumidifier so I'm going to do this!!! So awesome!! I live in a small city in North central WI so I am SO glad I found you!! My children think I'm crazy "preparing" but I have 16 grandchildren and I do it for them. God bless, stay safe everyone!!
That love right there!
Having the exact same situation and same similar location it sounds !
mine think im crazy too! Your not alone 👍🏻👍🏻😁
It's great to know this! I will pass it on to my family and friends!❤ Thank you Stacy!😊
I'm on grid, but with no air conditioning so this was helpful to me as well - thank you!
Such a great #nugget! We live in TN and the humidity and moisture is intense. Thanks for sharing what your learning with us!
Good tip. As a kid we camped on weekends and you could smell the dampness in the basement
Thank you for alllll your wonderful information. Just last night I was thinking that my bedroom smelled a little musty and was wondering what I could get, not to cover it up, but actually get the moisture out of the air -- AND you come through just at the right time!! Love you guys!!
Tbs Baking soda in a gallon of water. Spray everything.
Great tip. So easy! Missouri is so humid. You definitely need something for the moisture.
I'll have to try this for my storage buildings.
Great tip and video, Stacy!! I've used this stuff to even dry out electronics successfully.
This product is sold as DampRid in all big box stores. They have a small collection bag underneath the calcium chloride pellets that absorb and drip. Nice to know that this product is also sold in large amounts.
Bulk is always cheaper and with the large bag you get more moisture
Also at dollar tree
More economical
@@OFFGRIDwithDOUGSTACY How often do you change it out?
Damp rid charges $16 dollars plus the bag and they only last a month they charge you for the plastic when you can make a bigger one w/a pillow
That was one of the most interesting and USEFUL videos that I have ever seen on your channel!! Thank you so much! I have had issues for a while in certain parts of my home and this just may do the TRICK!! I actually stood up and yelled "That's gonna work!!!" I'm home alone right now but I definitely spooked my poor dog. Thanks for all the healthy and extremely useful tid-bits over the years Also, thank you for all of the new reasons to get excited about life again.
Hello,thanks for the great tip.I will be doing this for I get a lot of wetness under my house.Be well you two,and your critters.
Thank u Stacy for the tips on how to get rid of the mold under the house! Love and hugs❤️🙋👍🌹
I have used a product called Damp Rid successfully I’m the past and sure enough calcium chloride is the main ingredient. I’ll be sure to buy it in bulk next time and save a bunch of money! Thanks
I really adore Stacy and Doug I get so much useful info from this channel
Great video! We LOVE your channel! My husband and I just purchased 50 acres with a small home (750 bungalow) with a full, 8ft. concrete foundation, which we plan to completely develop into living space for our family of 7. This home is being gutted to the studs, re-insulationed with quality batt insulation, drywalled, and completely rebuilt. We are trying our best to go off-grid. We were initially thinking that we should have a HVAC air exchange system (cost is about $4,100 CAD). But, we know the times in which we are living, and we are preparing to be without power at some point, hence, trying to get off the grid as much as possible. We don't want to throw away over $4,000, but we also need a way to release the moisture in our home from cooking, showering, breathing, etc. Our home will be pretty air-tight by the time it's complete. What do you recommend would be the best solution to keep moisture out of our home, should we decide to forego the expensive air exchanger? We live in a very humid area (in both winter and summer), along the cost in Nova Scotia, Canada. We definitely have to have a plan in place, so that our home doesn't grow mold in the attic/ceiling areas, walls, and in the basement. Any and all suggestions would be tremendously appreciated. Praying for you guys, and thanking God for your wonderful channel!
Good to know..we live in Florida and moisture is awful here. Thanks for the info!
Thank you for sharing your information. We have a basement also with the same problem moisture during the spring rains and summer humidity. We have a dehumidifier and fans going to keep the air circulation going.
Thanks so much for this info I've used Damp rid years ago this past summer was extremely humid I totally forgot about this I will be purchasing this soon for my basement thanks again😄💕.
Great Nugget! Thanks Doug and Stacy, and thank your Amish friends for us, too! This nugget will not only help with mold and mildew, but help protect your beautiful cabin from rotting. My grandfather redirected a creek to build their home where he wanted. They had a cement cellar in which he created a channel for the underground creek water to come in, channel around the wall edge and flow back out the other side of the cellar. Seemed like a good idea, right? It took decades, but in time the moisture rotted out the stairs and floor joists and floor boards collapsing the first floor into the cellar. (They weren't living there at the time, but the stairs did collapse with my uncle on them.) Love how you love us enough to share these nuggets!
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Yikes!
And your Comment as well!
Great idea especially for us in FL humidity city!
You have a nice crawl space. Never thought I would day those words. First time I have seen your site. Thank you.
This is so helpful! We just bought an old 1850 farmhouse with a stone foundation and concrete floor. It is very damp and gets some water in the basement after heavy rainfalls and during spring thaw. The humidifier in the basement is running around the clock and the lowest it gets is 60%. The upstairs is damp because of this, so I see lots of daddy long leg spiders- yuck! Can't wait to try this, thank you!
Really great info again! Keep those nuggets coming! Thanks
I'm sure glad I placed a vapor barrier on my ground under my house before placing the foundation in place. This is a great tip about calcium chloride.
Tie one corner up in the knot at the neck of the bag and it will leave just the point you want to drip pointing down.
That's a good tip! We live in a much more arid climate, but that may be useful during the monsoon seasons. Thanks!🙏
Wow this is amazing information! I live in a 300-year-old farmhouse and the cellar has really bad moisture/mold I use an electric dehumidifier and it cost to run and does not work well... I have similar issues that you are having.I am gonna hang one in every corner as it is a larger space 10 bedrooms converted into a 2 family...now my home and a sort of artist community ...art students from the local art school occupy the other side. The house was on a property of an abandoned old dairy very ran down and we put blood and sweat to bring her back to life but it has many issues . It was built to last but before electricity, with 4 fireplaces I have wood stove inserts so it is more efficient.
I'm going to do this tomorrow!! Fabulous on so many levels :)
Wow, so glad I saw this! I live in Florida where humidity is bad. I have a stinky closet I'll try this in. Thanks!
Hi :) What was your results?
Good nugget, I'm going to try that at my farm basement, never thought of that cool!!🍒🍒
Will be giving this a try for sure . Thanks for the information.
Thank you so much for making this video I will be trying this!!!!
I think people who live on boats also use this. Thanks - love you guys.
Thank you! Or house has a moisture problem, especially the basement. Gonna give this a try.
Oh my goodness, we live in Miami, Florida and suffered a mold situation like we have never experienced before.
We tried several things including a dehumidifier (sp). I will try this as well. I am going to need to hunt around for some buckets to catch the moisture. I have one but use this for the fertilizer ZOO DOO that I get from the Miami Zoo. the price is right and it works so well.
Thanks for your timely-right on time advice. Always a pleasure seeing your stuff.
Hey Doug and Stacy 😊
Now that a great idea.. we going to have to try it out ..
Great nuggets. Thanks guys
Take care
Blessing
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Nice, just be sure to empty that bucket from time to time. Personally I would add a fitting to the bucket and run a small hose to the outdoors to auto drain the bucket. Collect and divert.
Such a great tip! I wish we could have seen the calcium dripping with moisture...in action, how well it was working. Can you show us in another video how its doing down there, please. Thank You guys!
It works just like damp rid
You could plant a vine next to your walls (south). Its roots will soak all the moisture and you could harvest grapes, too. This is the natural way they did in earlier centuries.
Mia Junginger Hi what kind of vines I planted a Trumpet vine in back yard and boy oh boy that vine is too hardy to the point I'm going to have to cover it so that it will stop growing it's popping up everywhere including places I don't want it to grow.😞
Mia Junginger
That's is probably not enough to prevent mold or moisture in crawlspace.
If the vine is invasive that creates another problem if too close to the house.
Have them plant some kudzu! If your neighbors don't burn your house down trying to kill the kudzu, it should do a number on that crawl space!
I never had a problem with moisture, but didn't realize that that may be because I have flowering and grape vines growing around my cabin. Thanks for the information!!!
oh, I wish it could really help... My house is all surrounded by vine, still I have 70 cm of wet stains on my walls. =-(((
Thank you for sharing this! You have a beautiful home 😊
Stacy, so timely. I am thinking about buying a property with a 1906 farmhouse. Its slightly musty. I think it is from the dirty basement. I was going to clean it and this would be a great addition rather than always using a dehumidifier.
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That's a great tip !! Thanks for the nugget !!
Hey guys, what a great video and very nice idea. Thank you so much.
What a fantastic idea! We are on grid so don't need to do it, but I am impressed.
Really enjoyed that vid. I've been putting salt out recently. It's dried up my flat a fair bit. I don't use aircon. Using old-school methods gives me a sense of peace. Subscribed. Will check out your other videos.
Thank you for this video! I really needed this bit of info.
Thanks guys. Lol I would have sent Doug down under 😄
Stacy you are an amazing sweetheart and pioneer!
This is great information !! Thank you!
Interesting! The Amish have a long history! If they say it works, i believe! 💕
Thank you!! I was searching for how to use a dehumidifier in my shed for storing my eBay inventory. I watch your channel anyways and I found you when I wasn’t even looking for you and I’m stoked that there’s a cheap and simple method!! I don’t have to waste precious pennies on a machine that’s destined to fail one day ☺️
Thanks so much. I will try it in my RV today. On my way to home depot. Namaste.
Thank you Doug and Stacy. We live off grid in a cabin in Ontario Canada. I am having issues with moisture and mold. I am going to try this for sure. Thank you so much for the info. Love your channel and use a lot of your information. Cheers from Canada!
Wondering if you had success? We’re also in Ontario and looking for a
solution for our off grid cabin.
Where do you buy it in Canada? I live in Ontario too 😊
So cool!!!!. Happy you said something!!
I have watched things on mobile tiny houses, and many of them have moisture issues. If you used an attractive fabric, and a cute bowl or bucket, that would sure help it seems.
What a wonderful tip. Thank you so much!
Awesome information. Thanks for your research efforts.
Hi Stacy, What a great idea. Thanks for the wonderful info and explanation. I always enjoy your recipes and other tips!! Love, Mary ❤️😘❤️ PS...It looks like you are wearing one of Heidi’s skirts. I have one too! And 2 of her aprons!! She is the best. I learned about here from you. Thank you for sharing her info because I learn so much fro her too!!❤️😘❤️
I would like info on the aprons if you could please share. TY. 😊
Kathy Inigarida - Hi Kathy, The aprons are made by a lovely woman name Heidi who has the RUclips channel Rain Country Homestead - Heidi has an Etsy shop by the same name. I don’t have the link handy but if you go to her RUclips channel and leave her a comment she will give you the link to her Etsy store. She makes beautiful things… Skirts and aprons, and more. And her husband Patrick makes beautiful handcrafted wooden goods. I also purchased a pasta rack that he had made. Tell her you are interested in the aprons like the ones I purchased (I’m Mary from Texas - She’ll know.) Her hand work is gorgeous!! Good luck! Love, Mary❤️😘❤️
Great info. Really enjoyed the video.
Humidity control:. GREAT tip for those of us in the super humid regions!!!
Glad it was helpful!
Great info!!! As usual you all keep spreading crazy Nuggets for us to learn!
I have a problem with moisture in my home...pretty bad. Thank you for sharing!
Now that’s a good idea! I’ll do that under our cabin!
Super info, here in Tx this yr has been super wet, so this is super info to take moisture out of our shop, thx, Bear
Awesome! Never heard of this before! Thanks!
Stacy I wish you would add these household tips in the back of your cookbook!!!
Thank you for sharing this. I am a new Florida resident, and new to dealing with high humidity. Going to attempt this method in my crawl space ASAP. Thank you lots.
And how's the humidity now?
I live in Europe but having the same problem
I love this. Good info! Thanks!
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Thanks for Sharing!😃
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What a good nugget! Thank you
That is a great tip Thank you with out air conditioning humidity is a problem
My Grandfather has a low ceiling basement and he used lots of charcoal in onion bags. The charcoal, in the summer absorbed the excess moisture but in the winter, the charcoal released the excess moisture in the dry winter air. It was self regulating the humidity. Now, I never tried this in my basement but this was my Grandparents trick. If you try it, let me know, I m curious. Great Video
We try this and guess we did it wrong cause it is still dry charcoal..
Thank you Stacy. Great info
Thanks I’m going to build a plastic mesh sliding rack into my shed/tiny house foundation so I can be prepared for moisture.
Thanks for the tip!
Love this nugget
Simply Wonderful! Thank you...Clapping from Norfolk, VA.😁
Thank you! Definitely going to try this.
Thanks! Here in the Mid-South area we have so much moisture. Rhonda
Great idea
Great idea! Thanks for sharing!!!
One definite drawback, (though ambient humidity is drawn) it is still present. Need a sealed collection media far away to drain humidity away from area.
maybe a funnel on the bucket with a top on the bucket and the funnel sticking through the top of the bucket . I was thinking the same thing . still exposed to the environment so it could evaporate into the air .
Great info. I didn’t know it could be purchased in bulk. I buy the expensive little containers for my rv, but I will make my own from now on. Since I can’t hit the like button more than once......👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻☺️👩🏻🌾
We buy the little buckets for our rv too! This is a greatly useful tip!!!🌟🌟🌟🌟😘
we live in our rv also! guess what we'll be doing...Thank you doug n stacy!
Mountain Mama how and where do you use them? New to living in RV in cold temps with lots of indoor moisture problems. Thanks in advance
Suzanne Ulicny Ward ...We've lived in our 24ft. Camper for the past 71/2 yrs. Here in central Maine.We put hay bales around the outside of the camper in the Fall, put @1/2 in. Sheets of "foam board" under the " snap & click" flooring for some insulation, installed a 602 Jotul woodstove with metal sheeting around It, metalbestos chimney, slate under it & leave the ceiling vent cracked. We have zero moisture problem...so much so, that I have to keep a pot of water on the stovetop & run a diffuser when we have the woodstove lit. We're snug as 2 bugs in a rug! 😊
Suzanne Ulicny Ward P.S. Using propane for heating puts moisture in the air...
Can easily kill mold with a tablespoon of baking soda mixed in a gallon of water. Vinegar I'm told also works. U just need to adjust the PH level of whatever the mold is growing on. Apply with pump sprayer, spray bottle, rag, spongue, etc. It takes @3 days but the mold WILL NOT COME BACK like it does with bleach applications.
whoa so cool. if vinegar, how much?
I will try
Also, another option that works. Borax mixed with water. Kills the mold, treats the wood from rotting, and repels insects like termites. Normally like 1 gallon to a 1/4 cup of borax, don’t need much. Warm water helps mix the borax better. I did it to my home during a full renovation. Old framer told me about how they have been using that method for decades. Works wonders!
@Angela Hoffer is that safe for babies? To walk, crawl, play on with their toys and ect?
Bleach and Killz primer are the two worst things to put on mold growth. Great advice, this method works great for small areas and is safe.
Wow! I loved this. Cheap, easy, effective.........what more could you want? I was wondering if you can hang a small bag under the kitchen sink? Stacy, I love your clothes......especially your dresses and skirts. Where do you get them? I love your channel. I especially love the recipes you show us. Thanks.
whoa trippy... sound doesnt sink with lips... its like saturday morning kung-fu movies
Mark JetGator pun intended.. (homestead)
.sink... sync.. ... but hey kudos for being the fuck nut spelling police... feel better about yourself now??
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@@fljetgator1833 At the end it was out of sync [sink].