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Working in a older building leading to moisture issues

I just started my job about 2 months ago! I have learned a lot of strange things, however most importantly I have learned what to do as well as what not to do in our building, but for example with our office thermostat, there a lot of the coworkers who are truly stringent on when people change the temperature on the thermostat, then the reason for this is that the building gets truly humid especially in the summertime, but now since we’re getting into somewhat warmer weather, the building gets truly humid.

  • The building is about 100 years old as well as I can tell that the humidity entirely impacts our productivity, but people periodically get lazy as well as don’t want to work, people compare as well as complain about their hair frizzing.

And worse, periodically there has condensation that collects on the windows as well as recently we’ve had water detriment as well as some slight organic growth on our walls. All of the floors in our building are wood floors as well as the walls are greatly impacted by the strange temperatures as well as humidity levels. I have learn that at least three pints of water can hold in a cubic foot of wood flooring that’s at 60% of humidity. A lot of humidity can impact building joists, studs as well as finishes on walls. This can cause cracks as well as long-term detriment. I guess that within the next year there has going to have to be some serious renovations done in our building due to all of the humidity that my associate and I have. To combat this issue, our boss has installed numerous dehumidifiers to help with the humidity. Personally I do not guess the dehumidifiers are enough, I guess our boss should reach out to a local heating as well as cooling serviceman to see if there has anything more that my associate and I can do to minimize the humidity.

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