[CAUT] Building humidity now, GREAT!

[Diane Hofstetter]

Paul, Wondering how  your building humidity is holding up.  The engineers are coming Monday...



Diane Hofstetter





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> To: caut at ptg.org
> From: a440a at aol.com
> Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2010 18:55:18 -0500
> Subject: Re: [CAUT] Building humidity now, GREAT!
>
> Paul writes:
> >>Don't know what happened, but facilitiesmanagement on UNL has
> our building reallly nice. 40% humidity solid forthe past 3 weeks!! How
> they did it is beyond me, but it's there and I'mliking it! I hope it
> holds!
>
> Greetings,
> Everything will be fine for a couple of weeks, then we have two
> days of 78 degree rooms, followed by a day of 60 degrees, then back
> hovering around 70. Every time the weather begins changing, the system
> needs a couple of days to react. Knocks the hell out of practice
> rooms. Stage pianos are tuned often enough, (several times a week)
> that they ride through the changes with a few cents swing up and down.(
> I do NOT change a concert piano's pitch 2 cents to match 440 if it is
> intact where it is.) I am trying to get a semester's worth out of each
> tuning in the teacher's studios, but that only happens when nothing
> else goes wrong. Which is rarely.
> In an ideal world, the budget would be as elastic as the
> temperature, and I am just wondering what the real world does. What
> have other CAUTs said to the administration inre costs of tuning going
> up with HVAC problems.
> Regards,
> Ed
>
>