Basement Storage

christian1971

I plan to set-up a cooledor in our canning room in the basement. There are no windows and temps will be around 50 degrees. Will this temp be ok? Thanks

bigharpoon

That temp. should be fine, a little on the cool side but cool is not harmful. The problem I had when I tried keeping my cigars in the basement was the humidity was much too high. Keep an eye on that and make sure it stays within control and you should be fine.

jsnake

I moved all of my stuff down into the basement about 2 years ago. My temps stay on the lower end (65 to 70) and humidity is just right. Got beetles when the seasons were changing and my humidors upstairs hit the upper 80's when we had te windows open. Used to move them with the seasons but the basement is fine for me year round.

Rail Jockey

I keep my cabinet humidor in the basement. In the summer i put it in my AC room, where it is rock solid at 67 - 68 degrees and solid 68% humidity.....in the winter i move it out in my basement because the AC room is too warm. In the winter out in the basement it is 68 degrees and still 68% humidity. Are you close to the twin cities?

christian1971

I live near St. Cloud

blurr

camgfs

Lee.mcglynn

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blurr

Its either that, or worry about it being upstairs and reaching 80 to 85 degrees in the summer daytime. I keep all of my humis on a shelf in the basement, so basically my basement would have to flood, to the point of the water level being 8 feet high and coming up thru my floorboards into the upstairs. Now I know water can rise fast, but i keep on eye on it more than once daily, and have a sump pump always plugged in to pump out any water that happens to get in