Two birds with one stone

Joined Jan 2006
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Kansas City
I have been wanting to convert a small room in the corner of my basement into a wine celler for some time now. If I were to add humidification to it (assuming it is a nice tight room) could I also use this as a walk in? I can't imagine that there would be any ill effects to the wine would there? Is there anything special I would have to do to the room, ie fan, wood lined walls? I saw a site that I think Quag posted with some cool humi trays that I thought would work well.

Let me know what you guys thing and if you have any ideas

P.S. I want you to to know that I am blaming all of you for this obsession, at least that is what I am telling my fiance'..hehe :lol:
 
Some one can correct me but I think it may be possible but moistuure problems will be too much to handle. I would not store wine much warmer than 60 degrees f and I would not sotre cigars at less that 65 % humifity. I think under those conditions wyou may enounter mold problems or condensation. Can someone smarter than me please comment on this?
 
I would not store them together. 70 degrees is too warm for both red and white. And, the humidity level of 70% overtime, would probably have an ill-effect on the cork. Maybe?
 
well, damn... thought I had a plan there. Thanks for heading off this train wreck befor it happened.


Now I guess I will look into the ol frigidor idea....
 
I want to have a humidor big enough to hold several boxes of cigars for aging. But I also want it to be nice enough to have in my den/office. Can I make a Humidor out of a stadard armoir? If I add something like the Oasis II, would I have to do anything else to it, other than putting slotted shelves in it?
 
Most commercial furniture will not stand up to the humidity. It can either warp, split, or become unglued. If you notice, all humidors are unfinished wood on the inside. Furniture is not.
 
what about lining the main compartment of an armoir with spanish cedar? Hell, probably be cheaper to just order one of those cabnet style humidors and be done with it... :?
 
Mold and condensation would most likely not be an issue but with the kind of money you're talking about protecting you would want to be prepared. If people do this there is a step by step procedure that gets very detailed. At the very least, you would have to frame out the room, insulate (if in the basement), put green/blue board up (resistant to moisture), finish walls, install tile or vinyl with tile or vinyl baseboard, and put in ahumidifier (depending on size most likely a wall unit meaning you'd have to install filtered water because of the rate of usage). Its not a lot if you're familiar with construction but if you're not it would be quite costly. I saw one guy spend I think it was 12,000 on his room but he really tricked it out. He also put a bump out in the room to put a wine chiller.

Until you have thousands of cigars (look at Vince and CC--it could happen) I think it would be overkill. The guy that I was speaking had no money left for cigars after he built this room. He had this fancy 10x12 ir so lounge with no cigars in it. Wine chillers in my opinion are very attractive. I'm going to start building my second one soon and I'm going to post my progress here with pictures so I suggest you hold up for a while and I'll show where I went wrong my first try and I'll walk you through the process of building the ultimate.
 
That will be great, Quag....we need pictures! I by no means need a large humidor at this point. That beeing said, i tend to obsess about my interests, so rather than keep buying/building more and bigger humidors, I thought I would try to get just one large one for storage and be done with it (assuming I do not get as deep as Vince and CC) I would like to have one that is nice enough to display in my office. I have seen some nice armoir humidors online that should be more than enough to support my hobby. A nice wine chiller would look good though too.