Ridgeway
Veteran
- Location
- Lausanne, Switzerland
I would simply add an extractor fan, about £20 and if the walls are single skin then a 1hr install. Totally silent and use very little electricity vs a dehumidifier.
This IMO is the best, easiest and most effective solution. About £130 to buy, but after that they are cheap to run. Drier air heats up faster the drier it gets. There's no heating element in a dehumidifer but as the garage dries out, it does get warmer because the fan motor gives off heat like any other motor. I had a garage the same as yours, but had been left damp and unloved for years, there were quite a few gaps. My dehumidifier would extract 2 litres of water in 8 hours. It's amazing how dry it got even in winter.
Long story short, I kept a Honda CBF125 in there over 2 winters. They are famed for being rust magnets (cheap bike made in India) but mine was spotless. No rust whatsoever.
*Edit - I also haven't changed the filter in 7 years. It still works perfectly
...villains to insert enormous pry bars.
Perhaps we should start a garage/shed/man cave thread, there must be some nice ones on the forum. Mine is just organised chaos, if it was three times the size I’d fill it.
I’ve also got another rented lock up which is full!