Things You Shouldn't Store In Your Basement

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
If I'm Guvey and Christine producer Christen, and apparently there's
a list out there of things you should not store
in your basement. And I'm afraid I'm going to hear this, Christine, yes,
and think I have.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
All these every single thing we have, and.

Speaker 1 (00:14):
The main reason it's kind to be for what flooding purpose?

Speaker 2 (00:16):
Let me just put that out there. It's like everything
we have in our basements. We like the basements out
of sight, out of mind, protected space, extra space, right storage.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
We have a lot of valuables down there.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
Actually, yes, but according to the home experts, it's the
perfect storm of high humidity levels and flip flopping temperatures
and that's not good for a lot of stuff that
we like to keep in the basement, especially in the winter.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
And I was not even thinking that. I'm just thinking
about the whole like water heater blowing up down there.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
Wepecially, yeah, I went through that right now.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
Learn the hard way too. Unfortunately, their water heater broken,
flooded the basement and a lot of valuables, my my
grandmother's china was down there.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
It's yeah, that's such bad, but it's not just a
out a disaster, which that could happen. But like I
never thought about, the temperature does change quite drastically down there. Yes,
it's really cold down.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
So things are not faring well down there, unfortunately. Tech
tundra is one of the things the experts are saying.
Are using your basement to store up a bunch of electronics.

Speaker 3 (01:17):
Do not.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
They can corrode, they can short out.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
I have an old Mac down there that I'm sure
will work if I plug it in. Yes, I just
forgot about it. I bet you that thing might be shot.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
Now do we have a graveyard of old computers computers, Yeah,
because we're afraid to get rid of them and not
quite sure how to. So I understand fashion fails. Clothing, linens,
things that you thought I don't need this right now,
and you put in the basement. No, they can get musty, smells, mildew,
they might stink, they might become as shapen mattresses, betting,

(01:49):
And there we go with linens again. Never store in
a basement, says, it picks up a lot of mildew
and musty, and then you can't get that out right.
You have to stash these items indoors, and they have
to be sealed up tight spoiled snacks. Basements are basically
winter resorts for bugs and mice. So if you've got
dry goods down there, a flower, rice, pasta, they could

(02:11):
get into it.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
Yeah, we have a well, we found a mouse in
our garage. Never found the actual mouse, but we found
evidence of a mouse where we left a blanket of
some sort that was in the back of a car,
but we put in the garage. Yeah, and we forgot
about it and we saw it kind of eaten through
and some droppings. So that could probably happen in the
basement too. If it's happening in.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
The garage made it a home for a while, there
would Furniture you have to be careful with because of
the humidity swings, it can swell, it can split, it
can even pick up mold.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
Oh see, mold scares everybody, all of us.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
They said, try and run a dehumidifier if you can.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
I was gonna say, I have the airflow going down there.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
That's what my dad always did. Pictures, photo albums, scrap books,
you know, old school photographs. Yep, they don't do well.
Again in the humidity and the changing temperatures, important paperwork.
Great damp basements can make a chaotic duo. Paper based
products are vulnerable to damp conditions. You got to file
them and put them in a bin or something that

(03:10):
is sort of climate controlled. Man, I know it's.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
A lot, like I want to go home right now.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
And clean everything, cleaning, lift it all up, Kristin, I
know you're discovering this firsthand instruments.

Speaker 3 (03:25):
Yeah, so I told Christine earlier this morning. I played
the flute back in the day and I still had it.
It was stored in my parents' basement and that's gone,
it's thrown out. Yeah, we had Yeah, I have a
few guitars based guitars have Accustom made one too that
got some water damage as well. So yeah, okay.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
Yeah, because yeah, even again without the flood. And I'm
so sorry, but string and when musical instruments don't fare well,
and again it's the humidity. It's the changing humidity. I
know that with the guitars and stuff, any art that
you have, a lot of us are doing that as well.
Your artwork deserves gallery conditions, not garage vibes. They don't

(04:06):
do well in the cold temperatures and change.

Speaker 1 (04:08):
Everybody, you know, just keep the basement empty, guys, yeah,
don't do anything. Just keep it cobwebs and nothing.

Speaker 2 (04:14):
Don't go down there. Yeah, and uh, paints, flammable and
fussy paints and glues don't belong in the basement. Summer
and winter. Flammable items in the basement are a no no.
Store them in a temperate spot or recycle them safely instead, just.

Speaker 1 (04:27):
Put guests down there.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
Like I said, everything right, everything, everything, everything, all right, Okay,
you're welcome at.

Speaker 3 (04:32):
Least non finished basements though, like what if you have
a finished basement. I have all of that stuff down there.

Speaker 1 (04:37):
I'm all right.

Speaker 3 (04:38):
Yeah, and the whole podcast set up.

Speaker 1 (04:41):
But everything Christine is saying is so true. Our basements finished. Yeah,
I go down there and it's cold.

Speaker 2 (04:46):
Yeah, there's dampness.

Speaker 1 (04:47):
There's dampness.

Speaker 2 (04:48):
It seems to be dampness that gets but just now.

Speaker 1 (04:50):
Yeah, no, I'm seriously humidifier de humidified it up, all
right

Speaker 2 (04:54):
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