Short solo podcast episode (host Derek Cole) offering home comfort and energy-saving advice. Main claim: do not rely on portable dehumidifiers alone to fix wet crawl spaces; instead, seal the crawl space and install a commercial-grade dehumidifier in the crawl space to address the moisture source. The episode includes brief promotional CTAs (share, rate, download recent episodes).
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Foreign. Hey, this is Derek Cole and welcome to the Derek Cole Podcast. This podcast is all about home comfort and energy savings. The majority is really comprised of short audio clips of a device and answers to questions that we've been asked over the years. We also kind of sprinkle in the Ask Derek Cole show audio, which is a much longer Q and A kind of program. If you like this episode, and I hope you do, I would love for you to share it on social with others. Just take a screenshot of the program and hashtag it Derek Cole so I can see you. But let's get in to today's episode.
Do not just install a dehumidifier. Because that's not the answer. It goes back to a few episodes ago. I want the cure, not the band aid. A dehumidifier is kind of like a band aid. You feel good about it. I'm doing something. Humidity feels a little better. You got a little placebo effect going on. You say, oh, that feels better in here. I got a dehumidifier. It's not. Dehumidifier is not helping you out. So seal the crawl space, get the moisture out, put a dehumidifier in the crawl space. A commercial grade dehumidifier, not the one you pick up at Lowe's and Walmart. And it's got a little thing to plug it in. That's not going to help you out either. You need to properly address the problem, which is a moisture problem. So putting a dehumidifier in the space, unless your dehumidifier is so powerful it can dehumidify the whole state, which is what you're doing. Because the only thing between the dehumidifier and the outside is a couple of things of glass and a few walls, right? Nothing is going to stop the air from coming in. It's kind of like putting it in the wintertime. We talk about humidifiers. It's kind of like putting a humidifier in a room and saying that solves our problem. No, it doesn't. Just because a dehumidifier is in that room, it doesn't mean the room is magically sealed off and no air from any other source can get in. So again, it's not going to work. You need to seal the crawl space. You need to put a dehumidifier in. Just a dehumidifier is not the answer.
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