Location of humidor

[mrtr33]

If I was going the basement way, I would invest $35.00 in a Coleman cooler and forget the Humidor until Fall. You will have a much easier time controling temp & RH with a Coolerdor.

Think of your cigars as a sponge. They'll soak up the scents and odors of their surroundings. In a properly humidified and sealed humidor, they're surrounded by other cigars and spanish cedar, which does a great job of holding moisture without molding.

What you're risking with a musty-smelling basement is that scent being picked up by your cigars. Is it mold? Old moth balls? A decaying corpse? Whatever it is, although it may be slight, it could be slightly adversely affecting the taste of your cigars.

A coolerdor, while not usually aesthetically pleasing, provides a well-sealed solution. The basement provides a cooler location for the coolerdor (rather than, say, in a sunny window), and the cooler provides a sealed environment to keep outside smells and other environment undesirables from entering in.

I thought I remembered reading somewhere on here a step-by-step tutorial on setting up a coolerdor.....it's somewhere on here. I'm sure of it.

[VancouverMark]

Think of your cigars as a sponge. They'll soak up the scents and odors of their surroundings. In a properly humidified and sealed humidor, they're surrounded by other cigars and spanish cedar, which does a great job of holding moisture without molding.

What you're risking with a musty-smelling basement is that scent being picked up by your cigars. Is it mold? Old moth balls? A decaying corpse? Whatever it is, although it may be slight, it could be slightly adversely affecting the taste of your cigars.

A coolerdor, while not usually aesthetically pleasing, provides a well-sealed solution. The basement provides a cooler location for the coolerdor (rather than, say, in a sunny window), and the cooler provides a sealed environment to keep outside smells and other environment undesirables from entering in.

I thought I remembered reading somewhere on here a step-by-step tutorial on setting up a coolerdor.....it's somewhere on here. I'm sure of it.

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Trying to regulate temperature and humidity in a 25 count humidor is impossible. Every time you open it or fart near it you will get large swings in both readings. Get a cooler as mentioned.

Mark