Some discussion on another thread got me thinking about the best way to remove moisture from my fish room so I don't end up with mold/mildew issues. Currently I'm running a dehumidifier but I have to empty it daily which is getting old. Once it warms up a little more I have an air conditioner I can put in the window to run as a dehumidifier so it automatically drains outside, but that isn't a good solution for winter time, so trying to come up with ideas of what I can do...
My main issue is that my fish room is on the lower level of the house which is a bi-level, so the ground is only about a foot below the window level of the house. Of the portion of the house that is above ground the lower half is completely covered in brick, and inside of that is cinder block walls. I had planned on adding a vent fan to pull moisture out of the room to outdoors, but I'm afraid of what kind of trouble I'm going to get myself into trying to cut in to the cinder block / brick seems how I've never done any kind of masonry work before.
So trying to come up with a solution, I started wondering if there is a way that I could collect the moisture in the utility room and run it to a drain. Run a vent fan in the closet of my fish room (it's an open closet) and run it through in to the utility room then down in to some kind of vat that it can condensate in, then run a drain from the vat to tie in to the furnace drain or something like that... seems a lot easier than trying to cut through cinder block / brick wall. What do you think? Any thoughts on how to get it to work? I was thinking I could just mount a bucket in the utility room for it to condensate in then once there is a certain amount of water in the bucket it will drain. Do I need to use a metal bucket to help it condensate?
My main issue is that my fish room is on the lower level of the house which is a bi-level, so the ground is only about a foot below the window level of the house. Of the portion of the house that is above ground the lower half is completely covered in brick, and inside of that is cinder block walls. I had planned on adding a vent fan to pull moisture out of the room to outdoors, but I'm afraid of what kind of trouble I'm going to get myself into trying to cut in to the cinder block / brick seems how I've never done any kind of masonry work before.
So trying to come up with a solution, I started wondering if there is a way that I could collect the moisture in the utility room and run it to a drain. Run a vent fan in the closet of my fish room (it's an open closet) and run it through in to the utility room then down in to some kind of vat that it can condensate in, then run a drain from the vat to tie in to the furnace drain or something like that... seems a lot easier than trying to cut through cinder block / brick wall. What do you think? Any thoughts on how to get it to work? I was thinking I could just mount a bucket in the utility room for it to condensate in then once there is a certain amount of water in the bucket it will drain. Do I need to use a metal bucket to help it condensate?
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