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الرطوبة قد تكون العدو الصامت في البيت، لكن دلوًا بسيطًا من الملح يمكنه سحبها من الهواء في المساحات الصغيرة دون كهرباء أو جهاز مكلف. يشرح هذا الفيديو طريقة صنع “dry build” منزلي باستخدام دلو ووعاء شبكي وملح عادي، مع توضيح كيف يتجمع المحلول الملحي في القاع وكيف يمكن تجديد الملح تحت الشمس ليعود صالحًا للاستخدام مرة أخرى.
ستتعرف أيضًا على أفضل أماكن الاستخدام مثل الخزائن، المخازن، الحمامات، الأقبية الصغيرة، والمقطورات أو السقائف ذات الرطوبة والروائح الكريهة. ويعرض الفيديو نصائح مهمة للسلامة، مثل استخدام البلاستيك بدل المعدن، تغطية الدلو، وإبعاده عن الأطفال والحيوانات الأليفة، مع التنبيه إلى أن هذه الطريقة مناسبة للمساحات الصغيرة وليست بديلًا عن إصلاح تسربات المياه أو معالجة الرطوبة الكبيرة.
هذا المحتوى مناسب لمحبي أفكار تحسين المنزل، حيل المنزل القديمة، إزالة الرطوبة، مكافحة العفن، وتجفيف الخزائن والمخازن بطرق اقتصادية. كما يناسب من يبحث عن dehumidifier DIY، home hacks، humidity control، mold prevention، وطرق بسيطة للحفاظ على البيت جافًا بأقل تكلفة ممكنة.
ستتعرف أيضًا على أفضل أماكن الاستخدام مثل الخزائن، المخازن، الحمامات، الأقبية الصغيرة، والمقطورات أو السقائف ذات الرطوبة والروائح الكريهة. ويعرض الفيديو نصائح مهمة للسلامة، مثل استخدام البلاستيك بدل المعدن، تغطية الدلو، وإبعاده عن الأطفال والحيوانات الأليفة، مع التنبيه إلى أن هذه الطريقة مناسبة للمساحات الصغيرة وليست بديلًا عن إصلاح تسربات المياه أو معالجة الرطوبة الكبيرة.
هذا المحتوى مناسب لمحبي أفكار تحسين المنزل، حيل المنزل القديمة، إزالة الرطوبة، مكافحة العفن، وتجفيف الخزائن والمخازن بطرق اقتصادية. كما يناسب من يبحث عن dehumidifier DIY، home hacks، humidity control، mold prevention، وطرق بسيطة للحفاظ على البيت جافًا بأقل تكلفة ممكنة.
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00:00Damp is the quiet destroyer of a household.
00:02It does not announce itself the way a leak or a fire does.
00:06It creeps in, slow and invisible, in the air itself.
00:10And while you are not looking, it grows the mildew on your stored linens, the musty smell
00:16in your closet, the mould in the corner, the rust on your good tools, and it spoils the
00:21food in your pantry from the inside out.
00:24And most folk, when a room or a cupboard or a shed goes damp and musty, either just live
00:30with it, or go buy one of those costly powered machines that runs on the grid and eats electricity
00:36day and night.
00:37But there is an old, cheap way to pull the damp right out of the air of a small space,
00:42with
00:43no electricity at all, using nothing but a bucket and a bowl of plain salt.
00:48And today I am going to show you how to build one, and best of all, how to renew it
00:53free
00:53with the sun, so it works on and on for years.
00:57Let me show you.
00:59Here is the thing to understand first, for it is the simple wonder that makes the whole
01:03thing work.
01:05Certain things are what is called thirsty for water.
01:08They pull the moisture right out of the air around them and hold it.
01:12And plain salt is one of these, powerfully so.
01:15Set out a quantity of salt in a damp place, and it will draw the water out of the humid
01:20air
01:20and pull it into itself, until the air around it is dried and the water has gathered and
01:26dripped down as a brine.
01:28That is the whole secret.
01:30Salt is thirsty for the damp in the air, so a bowl of it in a closed space quietly drinks
01:36that space dry.
01:37There is no machine to it, no power, no moving part.
01:40But it is just the plain thirst of the salt doing the work, slow and steady, day and night,
01:47for free.
01:48Understand that, and the little thing we are about to build makes perfect sense, for all
01:53it does is hold a good lot of salt where the damp air can reach it, and catch the water
01:57it draws.
01:58Now let me show you the building of it.
02:01Quick word before we go further.
02:03My name is Esther Yoder.
02:04And the old household ways handed down to me, the kind I am sharing today, and a great
02:10many more besides, are far more than I could ever fit into one video.
02:15I have gathered the whole of them into a book, and you will find it at EliasYoder.com.
02:21If today's tips serve you, that is where the rest of what my mother and grandmother taught
02:25me lives, all in the one place.
02:28Now, to the damp.
02:29My grandmother had a saying that fits this exactly, that damp is the enemy of everything
02:35kept, and the dry house is the house that lasts.
02:38She meant that near everything we store and keep and treasure, the food, the cloth, the
02:44tools, the wood, the very house itself, is spoiled and rotted and rusted by damp, and
02:50that keeping a thing dry is half of keeping it at all.
02:53So the wise woman wages a quiet war on the damp in her cellar and her pantry and her closets
03:00all her days.
03:01And she knew the thirst of salt for water, and used it, as folk always did before the
03:07machines.
03:07So here is her kind of dry keeping, the salt drawing the damp, built into a simple thing.
03:14So the building of it, and it is the plainest thing.
03:18You need a bucket, a plain pail, a five-gallon one is good.
03:21And you need something to hold the salt up in the top of the bucket, above the bottom,
03:26so the water it draws can drip down away from it.
03:29And for this, a strainer or a colander, one of those bowls full of little holes for draining,
03:35is just the thing, set down into the top of the bucket.
03:38You want one with fine holes, fine mesh, so the salt does not fall through, but the air
03:44and the dripping water pass freely.
03:46If the holes are too big, you can line it with a bit of fine screen.
03:49So there is the frame of it, a bucket, with a mesh basket sitting in its top to hold the
03:55salt, and the empty bucket below to catch the water.
03:58Simple as that.
03:59Now, the one bit of making, the air holes, for this is important and folk get it wrong.
04:05If you were to seal that bucket up tight, the damp air could not get in to reach the
04:10salt, and you would have defeated the whole purpose.
04:13The salt can only drink the air that reaches it.
04:17So you must make a good number of air holes around the upper part of the bucket, up near
04:23the top where the basket of salt sits, so the humid air flows freely in.
04:30Make several around the whole rim, so the air comes in from every side.
04:35How to make them.
04:38If you have a drill, that does it quick, but you do not need one.
04:42You can punch them through the thin plastic with a heated nail or an awl, for the plastic
04:48of a bucket is not thick.
04:50Or, simpler still, if your mesh basket sits high and open in the top, much of the air reaches
04:57the salt through the open top already.
05:01Air holes round the top, so the damp gets in.
05:04That is the one bit of making.
05:07And why the holes up near the top and the bucket below the basket?
05:12Here is the cleverness, and it is also the safety, so heed it.
05:17The salt sits up in the basket where the air reaches it.
05:21It draws the water from the air, and that water, gathered, drips down through the holes
05:27of the basket into the bottom of the bucket, collecting there as a salty brine, safely down
05:34below, out of the way.
05:36So the bucket does double duty.
05:38It holds the salt up in the air to work, and it catches the water down low, so it does
05:44not
05:44sit in the salt nor spill about.
05:47And you can put a lid on the bucket, with the basket down inside it, and that keeps the whole
05:53thing tidy, and most important, keeps children and pets from getting into the salt, or knocking
06:00it over, of which more in a moment.
06:03Now, the salt itself.
06:05And here, let me give you the honest word so you use the right thing.
06:11Plain salt, the ordinary sodium chloride, the salt of your table, or the coarse kind, does
06:18draw the damp and will work.
06:20But there is a salt that draws far more powerfully, called calcium chloride, sold as a damp catcher,
06:27and also as the pellets folk use to melt ice or treat a pool.
06:33That one is thirstier for water than table salt, and pools more damp.
06:38So if you can get it, it works better.
06:41Either will do, so use what you have or can get cheaply.
06:46Just know the calcium chloride is the stronger drawer.
06:50Put a good depth of your salt into the basket, a couple of inches or more, spread out.
06:56For the more surface of salt the air can reach, the more damp it draws.
07:02A good bed of salt in the basket, that is the working part.
07:07And now the plain safety word, and heed it well.
07:11For the salt is not a thing to be careless with.
07:15Both the plain salt in this quantity, and especially the calcium chloride, are irritants to the skin
07:22and the eyes, and the brine they make down in the bucket is a strong, salty, corrosive liquid.
07:29So wear gloves when you handle the salt and the brine.
07:33Do not breathe the dust when you pour the salt.
07:36Pour it gently, and if it is dusty, a light misting of water settles the dust.
07:42Keep the bucket lidded, and set where children and pets cannot get into it, nor knock it over
07:49and spill that brine, for it is not to be eaten, and not good on the skin.
07:55And because that brine is corrosive to metal, make all your parts of plastic, the basket,
08:02the bucket, any drain, not metal, or the brine will rust and eat them.
08:08Gloves, no breathing the dust, lidded and out of reach, and all plastic.
08:15Keep those, and it is safe.
08:17Now, how you tend it, which is little.
08:21As the salt draws the damp, the brine gathers in the bottom of the bucket, and every so often,
08:27more often in the wet season, you pour that water off, so the bucket does not overfill.
08:34You can fit a little spout or tap low on the bucket to pour it off easily, a plastic one
08:41mind,
08:42or just lift the basket out and tip the water away.
08:46Keep an eye on it through the damp months, and you will learn how often it wants emptying.
08:52And that is nearly all the tending it asks.
08:55But here is the best part, the thrifty wonder of it, the part that makes it cost you nothing,
09:02year on year.
09:04You do not throw the salt away when it is spent, you renew it with the sun.
09:09For when the salt has drawn all the water it can hold, and gone damp and clumped,
09:14you simply take it and spread it out in a pan or a tray, and set it in the full
09:20hot sun.
09:21And the sun dries the water back out of it, evaporates it clean away, until the salt is dry
09:28and thirsty again, ready to go back into the basket and draw more damp.
09:34So the salt goes round and round, drawing the damp, then dried in the sun, then drawing again,
09:42over and over, and you never need buy more.
09:45The same salt serves for years, renewed free by the sun each time.
09:51It is the sun doing your work for nothing, the same free sun I have shown you drying the wash
09:58and sweetening the linens, here rethirsting your salt.
10:02That is the whole genius of it, and why it costs you almost nothing to run forever.
10:08Now, here is the honest word about what this will and will not do, for I will not oversell it
10:14to you.
10:15This passive salt bucket, with no fan and no power, is grand for a small enclosed space,
10:22a pantry, a closet, a cupboard, a camper or an RV, a small shed, a boat, a car left sitting,
10:31any small shut space that goes damp and musty. In such a space it will pull the air dry,
10:38and keep the mildew and the musty smell, and the rust and the spoilage away, beautifully, for pennies.
10:44But it is not going to dry out a whole large wet basement, nor your entire house.
10:50A passive bowl of salt reaches only a small space around it, so for a small damp space it is
10:56a wonder.
10:56For a big one, set out several of them, or know it is beyond a passive salt bucket.
11:03And one honest thing more, if your basement or room is truly wet, water coming in, a real dampness,
11:11then the salt is treating the symptom, and the true cure is to find and mend where the water is
11:17getting in,
11:17the leak, the poor drainage, the crack, for no bowl of salt fixes a leak.
11:23The salt for the ordinary damp of a small closed space. The leak seen to for a truly wet one.
11:30Honest about that.
11:32Now think a moment about why we came to believe that keeping a space dry wants a costly machine
11:38humming on the grid day and night, eating electricity, when a bucket of salt renewed by the sun
11:44does it for a small space for almost nothing. It is worse than a plot, for no one had to
11:50arrange it.
11:51There is good money in the powered dehumidifiers and the little throw-away damp catchers you buy again and again,
11:58and none at all in teaching folk that salt is thirsty for the damp and the sun renews it free.
12:05So the plain old knowing, that a bowl of salt draws the damp and the sun dries it to use
12:10again,
12:11just stopped being handed down, because no one profits by your drawing your damp with salt and sun.
12:17My grandmother kept her cellar and her pantry dry with salt and good airing, and never a machine.
12:24And somewhere between her day and ours, we were taught to plug in a costly humming box
12:29and pay the power company to do what a bucket of salt did for free.
12:33The mending of it is a bucket, a basket, and a bed of salt.
12:37You set a mesh basket of moisture-drawing salt in the top of a bucket, with air holes round the
12:44top so
12:44the damp gets in, and the empty bucket below to catch the water. The salt drinks the damp,
12:50the water drips down as brine, and you pour it off now and again. And when the salt is spent,
12:56you dry it in the sun to thirst again, round and round, free, for years. You keep it all plastic,
13:04gloved, lidded, and away from the children, for the salt and its brine are irritants. And you use
13:11it for a small closed space, not a whole wet basement. And you mend the leak if the wet is
13:17a
13:17real one. And you keep a small space dry and free of mildew and rust and spoilage, for pennies and
13:24no
13:25power at all. That is how it comes home, one drawn dry cupboard, one sun-renewed bucket at a time,
13:32the keeping of your own house back in your own hands. So here is what I would ask of you.
13:38This
13:38week, if you have a closet or a pantry or a shed that goes damp and musty, build one of
13:44these salt
13:45buckets the way I showed you and set it in there. And come back in a week or two and
13:49tell me in the
13:50comments how it drew the damp and whether the musty smell lifted, for I do love to hear of a
13:56quiet
13:56trouble beaten by a bucket of salt and the sun. And tell me, too, while you are there, your county
14:02and the age of your house. For the damp climates and the old cellars have the worst of it and
14:07want
14:07this most. And I learn from every one of you how it goes where you live. And if your own
14:12mother or
14:13grandmother had a way of keeping a space dry that I have not named here, tell me that most of
14:18all.
14:18For that is how this goes. We share what we were given. I read every comment and I learn from
14:24you
14:24the way the old women learned from one another across the fence line, one household and one season
14:29at a time. Next time, I will show you the old ways of keeping a whole cellar and pantry dry
14:35and sweet,
14:36the way the old families did, with good airing and lime, and the placing of things and the mending
14:42of the wet at its source, so that between the salt bucket for the small closed space and these larger
14:48old ways for the cellar, you keep the damp, the quiet destroyer, off everything you store and keep.
14:54There is a right and an old way to keep a household dry that runs on salt and sun and
15:00airing and good
15:01scents, rather than a machine on the grid. But this week, you start with the salt bucket. You set
15:07your basket of salt in the bucket with air holes round the top, let it draw the damp of your
15:12small
15:12space and drip it down to be poured off, and renew the salt in the sun to use again and
15:18again. And you
15:19keep it plastic and gloved and away from the little ones, and you mend the leak if the wet is
15:24a real one.
15:25And you will understand, as my grandmother did, that damp is the enemy of everything kept,
15:30and the dry house is the house that lasts, that salt is simply thirsty for the water in the air,
15:36and will drink a small space dry, and that the free sun will re-thirst it forever, so it costs
15:42you
15:42nothing. The household kept the plain old way is the one that remembers that a bowl of salt draws the
15:48damp and the sun renews it, and so keeps its stored things dry and sound, without a machine nor a
15:55power
15:55bill. And that is a thing we are only just starting to remember.
15:59But since we plan to fill the sun, we know everything we need.
15:59Great Ensuite, we plan to fill our Aviation Health with the Africanretenail,
15:59That the most 편리ic thing to do, doesn't forget everything that we have been offered from the
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