Mold in the shop question

[Dukes909]

I sent a friend the pictures I posted in abpw of the shop cabinet I built. He replied that it was his experience that if I don't have excellent ventilation in the shop my magazines and books stored int he cabinet will get moldy. My shop is a separate building heated only while I'm in there, cooled the same, on a slab with insulation in the attic and walls, slab floor. I use the Boeshield stuff on my tools as a precaution.

I haven't noticed any mold (fly droppings another matter)in the shop in the

2 years I've had it on any leftover lumber or papers etc. but I've not left magazines, books in there for any length of time. Any thoughts on this?

Cheers! Duke

[Mike Marlow]

My garage is everything. It's my workshop, it's my bodyshop, it's my service bay, at times we clear everything out of the way and jam in it, and I park my cars in it. It's like yours - insulated, heated when I'm out there, on a concrete slab. I'm in Central NY, and we get humid enough weather here. I've had all kinds of wood, books, manuals, etc. in my garage for years - a decade. No mold of any kind. Some mouse turds from time to time, but no mold.

[professorpaul]

That matches with my experience in a shop in a garage in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and now slower lower Delaware. I did put the books, etc., in a cabinet just to keep dirt from settling on them. No mold problems either. We are about 3 miles from the Atlantic Ocean here, so tools do have a good wipe-down of oil, as they can/will rust here.