The importance of garage dehumidifier opinion

[Fred]

Hi, friends, i will like to see opinion from the public if running a dehumidifier in the garage is good or not. https://dehumidifiertable.com/best-garage-dehumidifier-reviews/ experts seek help

[zak]

I keep my few classic cars in a stone garage with one side built into a hill so on one side it is up against the earth. Plus the concrete slab is on the soil.
The garage is heated to 50 deg F in the winter and stays dry.
However in summer months the walls of the garage  and the bodies of my cars would drip water.
Everything felt damp.
I installed a plug in dehumidifier a number of years ago and what a difference.
I set for 50 deg humidity automatic and it runs maybe half the time producing a steady flow of water into the floor drain.
With it the walls and my cars are bone dry. I would never go without it. 

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[Shvegel]

My garage sits on clay soil and when it rained it got really damp.  I epoxy coated the floor 5 years ago and it is perfectly dry now.

[specracer]

Depends on your situation. but generally I would suggest, that its very important.

[wwheeler]

I used to have a semi-enclosed garage. Basically it would rise and fall with the humidity outside. The worst was when the concrete slab was cool (winter and early Spring) and a very humid and warm weather front would blow in. Everything in the garage would sweat until the conditions stabilized.

I have since enclosed the garage and installed a window unit of sorts. It stays in the mid 50s in the winter and mid 80s in the summer. I have never had the condensation sweats again. I my opinion, the sweats are very bad for a classic car where as normal humidity fluctuations are tolerable. You would want to avoid any humidity extreme. Too high is obvious, but too low is bad as well. Wood and leather stored in very dry air will crack. The best is a moderate humidity that is consistent.   

[mdsalemi]

Important versus practical and affordable is really the question.

If you have a traditional garage where the large door opens and closes several times a day, so that you can park and remove your daily driver regularly, adding heat in the winter and or dehumidification in the summer (or whatever your climate dictates) is quite costly; traditional garages in the USA are rarely insulated and rarely well sealed, making climate control difficult and costly.

If you are talking dead storage or long term storage that's a different matter entirely. My car has spent most of its winters covered in an unheated garage and has not suffered any significant ill effects, mechanical or otherwise. This has been since 2001. This past winter which just ended the other day (as far as my car is concerned) it lived in a local museum, and the result is the same.

Common sense prevails: if you can place your car in what we call "conditioned space" by all means, do so. But to try and "condition" the air in a space not designed for it is futile.