Covering carpet...

[thewhitelotus]

Afternoon everyone! Had a quick question for ya....im lookin at covering carpet in one of my rooms, but wasnt sure about mold/mildew. If i secure a tarp/pond liner over the carpet will condensation form on the underside and create issues? Everything will be in trays and whatnot, so im not expecting any spills, etc. Im just concerned condensation will form on the underside, but not sure. Seems like it would essentially be the same as putting an area rug or something down

thanks in advance.

 

[mk6]

I bought a roll of linoleum for a bedroom grow, I used some 1x8 strips to screw it down on the edges, when I removed it... like 2 years latter, the carpet was fine, after I vacuumed it you couldn't even tell. The linoleum was cheap, and worked great for spills and cleanup.

 

[queequeg152]

eh, condensation IS possible, but not entirely likely. or at least i cannot see it easily happening.

i suppose if you had... say an uninsulated floor of a pier and beam type construction, you could get hot moist air condensing onto a cold sub floor... but keep in mind that before that ever happens, you will have things like windows dripping with condensed moisture already.

an abundance of caution is however, never a bad thing. imo at least.

i suggest you buy some moisture and humidity indicating cards... place them underneath what ever material you are going to put over the carpet.
these cards are what you see folks using in bulk food storage... ammo storage... document storage... old film canisters, etc etc. they cost nothing. retrieve them every now and then, or during periods of exceptionally high indoor humidity and low outdoor temperature. if your moisture card turns, then its been wet at some point.

 

[thewhitelotus]

thanks for the info! ill have to check those out.....where does one come across those? The area im in is about as dry as it comes as well...humidity is not an issue where I live

 

[queequeg152]

http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&ke...vptwo=&hvqmt=b&hvdev=c&ref=pd_sl_6wpdrasdzi_b

 

[ceosam]

Using tarps will result in failure, I promise. Instead, buy a pond liner -- it will save you a ton of headache down the road. Make sure you get it much larger then the size of your room so you can cover the walls, otherwise you will just spill the water over the lip of the pond liner and it will go underneath.

 

[draconis]

In my old place, that was a rental, I did the same thing that mk6 did without any problems. It was a damaged roll from home depot so it really wasn't that much.