What is the "correct" range for damp room humidity?

My damp room has a humidy meter that records hign and low humidity.
For the last week the values were High: 79% and Low 49%. What is the
"correct" range for damp room humidity?

Thanks,

-JoePotter

Dear Joe,

I'm not being sarcastic, but the real test is how long your work
maintains the damp stage it was in went it went in there, if you see
what I mean.
If it gets damper or over-wets after a period of time, the room is too
efficient, if it dries out fairly quickly, the reverse is the case. It's
a case of getting the balance right by trial and error.

If you can produce a set of relevant humidity figures in the process
then you will have done us all a favour!

I haven't as yet found any relevant information on this subject.

Steve
Bath
UK


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JoePotter writes
My damp room has a humidy meter that records hign and low humidity.
For the last week the values were High: 79% and Low 49%. What is the
"correct" range for damp room humidity?

Thanks,

-JoePotter


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Steve Mills
Bath
UK

When I went to college, they just had normal cupboards with trays of water
in the bottom. I dont think they bothered testing humidity. We used to
stand the ware on bats over the trays, until a bright spark at the college
thought it'd be better to take everything off the bats and stand them
directly in the trays.

Needless to say, we all returned the following week to a slumped mess (all
our hard work down the pan). I resorted to finishing all my projects at
home after that!

I don't have a damp room in my studio....I just throw one day, and turn the
next. If I need to 'keep' anything for a little longer, I just wrap in
polythene.
......Now a drying cupboard - that'd be better!

JM

The traditional workshop in Japan has a pounded dirt floor. It is
watered to keep it damp. Boards of things that have to be kept
damp, are put on bamboo strips on the floor and then covered with
plastic, only on the top.

I would say, the damper the better.


--
Lee In Mashiko, Japan

ClayCraft Group: http://groups.google.com/group/ClayCraft

"there are only two ways to live your life, One is as though nothing is
a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
--Albert Einstein

Lee In Mashiko, Japan wrote:
The traditional workshop in Japan has a pounded dirt floor. It is
watered to keep it damp. Boards of things that have to be kept
damp, are put on bamboo strips on the floor and then covered with
plastic, only on the top.

I would say, the damper the better.


--
Lee In Mashiko, Japan

ClayCraft Group: http://groups.google.com/group/ClayCraft

"there are only two ways to live your life, One is as though nothing is
a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
--Albert Einstein

above all, don't heat it.... (we have a central heating pipe in the damp
room at College, can't be turned off, when is a damp room not a damp
room? when it's designed by an architect.....)