Any advice for stopping mold in your cellar?

[silversurfs]

I have previously posted my setup... I got a freezerless Woods fridge and bought a temperature controller, to keep it between 10 and 12 Celsius. I keep the probe in a bottle of water for better temp control. I have noticed in the last week (its been running since January) that a few bottles have got a little mold on the sides. One certain vintage of Singularity, and weirdly, most of my Russian River bottles. I see some condensation on the sides, so I'll clean that up, plus, clean the bottles, I suppose. I'm wondering how to prevent it in future. Any advice, anything I can put in the fridge that will help?

 

[Der Fuchs]

 

[ForkAndSpoonOperator]

If you have a little bit of extra space in there, a desiccant like DampRid would probably work great.

EDIT: Great minds think alike.

 

[user 305963]

This stuff works too

http://www.petsmart.com/featured-sh...-catid-800019?var_id=36-20098&_t=pfm=category

I've used this stuff to maintain humidity in my homemade humidor. It works the other way too, can pull a lot of moisture out of a closed space.

 

[ASUBeer]

In addition to damprid, it sounds like you should get rid of the bottle of water in the fridge.

 

[duketheredeemer]

In addition to damprid, it sounds like you should get rid of the bottle of water in the fridge.

He can also just seal the bottle if he wants to keep it for temperature control. Either tape/glue the thermometer to a hole in the lid, or if it has a separate probe or can be read from inside the bottle, just put it in there and close it up. Better thermal inertia, no extra water getting into the air.

Or just go with a dry thermometer. I don't think it needs to be that accurate in this situation.

 

[ForkAndSpoonOperator]

In addition to damprid, it sounds like you should get rid of the bottle of water in the fridge.

Take the bottle cap and drill a hole in it the same diameter of the probe. Stick the probe in there and seal around the hole with plumber's putty or similar.

EDIT: TWICE.

 

[silversurfs]

Forgot to reply to this.... I did end up getting DampRid and it worked perfectly. Thanks guys!