Hello,
Where I live the average winter low isn't too cold, 10F or so, but the roads are treated with a lot of gravel, sand, and sometimes chemicals (urea, I think, so not as bad as what some other states use?).
For the last decade or so I was driving older cars and they lived outside, I never paid much attention or noticed any corrosion issues. I recently acquired a house with a radiant floor heated garage. I leave it set as low as possible with the installed thermostat, 60F. If my vehicles have significant snow/ice build up quite a bit of water can pool up in the drain, and due to the sand/grit in the snow, the water drains slowly and the p-trap has to be periodically cleaned out.
The result is a lot of humidity in the garage during winter. I was wondering if there is some way to mitigate this? Obviously cleaning the snow off before entering the garage would be ideal? Even so there is only so much you can do when there is ice accretion and it's below freezing outside. In certain conditions even the drive between the car wash and the house would lead to build up by the time I arrived home.
Should I open a window? Get a thermostat that goes lower? Set up some kind of dehumidification system? Just live with it?
This is the frame of an 18 month old vehicle (transmission cross member area).
Unfortunately the only local under-coating place uses a product called Valu-Gard and not the usually recommended oil-type undercaoting. I have done the valu-gard on one vehicle anyway, but the one pictured below hasn't had it.
Where I live the average winter low isn't too cold, 10F or so, but the roads are treated with a lot of gravel, sand, and sometimes chemicals (urea, I think, so not as bad as what some other states use?).
For the last decade or so I was driving older cars and they lived outside, I never paid much attention or noticed any corrosion issues. I recently acquired a house with a radiant floor heated garage. I leave it set as low as possible with the installed thermostat, 60F. If my vehicles have significant snow/ice build up quite a bit of water can pool up in the drain, and due to the sand/grit in the snow, the water drains slowly and the p-trap has to be periodically cleaned out.
The result is a lot of humidity in the garage during winter. I was wondering if there is some way to mitigate this? Obviously cleaning the snow off before entering the garage would be ideal? Even so there is only so much you can do when there is ice accretion and it's below freezing outside. In certain conditions even the drive between the car wash and the house would lead to build up by the time I arrived home.
Should I open a window? Get a thermostat that goes lower? Set up some kind of dehumidification system? Just live with it?
This is the frame of an 18 month old vehicle (transmission cross member area).
Unfortunately the only local under-coating place uses a product called Valu-Gard and not the usually recommended oil-type undercaoting. I have done the valu-gard on one vehicle anyway, but the one pictured below hasn't had it.
