I recently spent a full 10 afternoons in a van driving across the US.
- I work for a small custom furniture company and the two of us get most of our wood shipped to us from multiple places in the country.
Sometimes the two of us get batches from overseas, but more often than not the wood is one hundred percent resourced in the country. When the two of us have a special order that specifies the use of a rarewood the two of us normally don’t have access to, this can involve a huge cross country road trip. The order was for matching cabinet doors in the living room and in the other area of the house, and a few accent shelves throughout the house. Without needing to say more, it was a large project from the start, so it was within our budget to collect the wood ourselves. I tried to schedule a few drop offs on the way across the country so I could make it worth my while and the expenses. Blessedly, the cooling unit deep inside of the van needs work. It barely affects the temperature inside, so I drove with the windows down for almost the entire trip. I was blessed enough to be working during the middle of Springtime so it wasn’t too sizzling in any of the states I was passing through. When I got back home after the trip, the inside of my house felt drier than normal. Once we had checked out the control unit to confirm nothing had changed, I realized why I was experiencing this. I got familiar with driving around in a van with barely any air conditioning, let alone any dehumidification during any section of the trip, now that I was back home with a normal cooling system, I could feel the difference in humidity alone. I had never realized how much my central cooling system was dehumidifying my indoor air.