08-15-2011, 03:42 AM
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Originally posted by terracore
Funny all the posts about humidity and mold! SE Alaska is a temperate rain forest- if it's not raining, it's snowing. The only time it's dry is when it's too cold to snow.
Basically, we're moving from a cool expensive rain forest to a warm, slightly less expensive rain forest.
These posts are great. thanks! Keep 'em coming.
NOT THE SAME type of mold humidity concerns... not at all.
We moved from the Olympic Penn. of Washington State. Yes, we were used to wet and mold. Here in Hawaii this is very different. How? We never close our windows in the several of the rooms in our house. The windows we do close at night are open all day. The INSIDE rusts. The air is hot humidity. In Alaska you have cold inside with not a lot of the constant ventilation. Here there is constant ventilation but it is all humid. The refridge and washer get rusty inside the house.
The biggest cost is electricity, electricity, electricity.
The biggest surprise is how much faster the stuff molds and rusts here. We lived right on the beach in Washington, so were used to corrosion and upkeep. Here it happens three times as fast. Tools and things rust much faster here. Stuff grows much faster here. There is no down time for growth in Hawaii. Thus no down time for upkeep here.
WE LOVE IT HERE and wouldn't trade it if we were paid to go back. It is so worth living in paradise.
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