Frost in Closet - Can Be Serious - LIVE Stream 11-24-2021 AsktheBuilder.com

Hi, I'm Tim Carter

Welcome to this live stream. It's a very random one. It's the day before Thanksgiving

And I had said yesterday that I wasn't going to do any more live streams until next Monday

which would be, gosh, November, excuse me, 29th. But I decided to do this live stream

as a test actually, because I found out this morning quite by accident

I was, I had to do, I wrote a new column and I went to discover on YouTube if I have done so many

videos in the past, I can't remember all of them. So I went to YouTube and I typed in this, I typed in a phrase

I think I typed in indoor humidity and then followed by my name, Tim Carter

So indoor humidity, Tim Carter. And I was stunned to discover the number three video Hi how you doing Costa family Good morning Anyway I was stunned to see that the number three video in the research results was a live stream that I did four days ago or so

But the title of the video was attic insulation, the title of the live stream

But in that live stream, I talked about indoor humidity. So that told me that Google

and YouTube, and good for them, because it's going to help you in the long run, that they are doing an ysis

They're actually taking, they have artificial intelligence that is translating what I'm saying right now into a closed caption that is, I don't want to say it's hidden from you, but I'm sure when you watch the video, you can click the closed caption and see it if you're, if you are hearing impaired

And it picked up on the indoor humidity. All right. So I'm going to talk right now a little bit about frost in closets

It's a pretty common problem. It going to become more common here in the next few months as we get deeper and deeper into winter But each winter I get a lot of questions about people who own up their closet And then they looking for some clothes

They're rooting around. And all of a sudden, they look on the wall. And there's a layer of frost on the wall

And they like freak out. Like, oh, my gosh, what's going on? So let's talk a little bit about frost in closets

Pretty simple. Here's, it's just all that the frost is, it's just condensation that's

has frozen. And it's no different than the condensation that you might get on a glass of ice

tea, on a can of soda, on a can of beer. When you take one of those cold cans out of the

refrigerator or out of a cooler, and then you set it on the patio table or the picnic table

outdoors in the summertime. All right. So what happens is the dew point of the can, the surface of the

can is lower than the humidity of the air, the relative humidity of the air. And so the humidity

in the air just immediately transforms from a vapor into a liquid. And that's what causes

condensation It just a matter of the dew point So have you ever noticed and this is really important have you ever noticed outside in the morning if you go out early in the morning you know and it and you might be down in Florida

Like today is a very interesting thing here in New Hampshire. It got cold

It was probably 24, 25 degrees overnight. And typically you might have frost, like on my truck windshield

I might have frost on it. Today, no frost. None. No, none anywhere

Well, why? Well, it was windy, big time windy overnight. And so the wind was causing, you know, what dew was forming, it was evaporating it

Just like when you blow on something, you know, if you have something that's damp and you blow on it typically or put it on the wind, it'll dry much faster because the wind is taking all that moisture away

So when you have... When you go into your bathroom and you see fog on the mirror, you know, after you've taken a shower or a tub bath, you think, oh, well, there's just humidity on the mirror. You know, there's just fog on the mirror. No, there's fog everywhere. There's that same fog, that same water vapor has formed on your walls