Old problem coming back

[wterrell]

Steve,
Ventilate your house to keep the relative humidity the same as the great all-outdoors. Then, at night as the house cools down to the ambient temperature of outside, the moisture will not be condensed as greatly by the cooler objects in the house, such as the window glass, and guns. If your pistols are kept in a cooler room of the house, without ventilation, the cooler room acts as a condensor constantly and dowses solid objects with moisture at all times.
Whenever the kitchen stove comes on, the ventilator fan in the attic should also be activated. The bath and shower should have its own vent fan to the outside and run quite a spell after anyone takes their daily bath or shower.
If you use propane as a heating source, the propane will deposit very large amounts of moisture into the hot air.
As proof for this argument, bring a cool handgun into the warm, moist living room and then examine it closely, within 60 seconds. It will be covered with water beads.
I lived in Oklahoma for many years and am familiar with the humidity problems of the region.