REMOTE MONITORING
Got a Crawl Space? A Fridge in the Garage? A Dog or Chicken House?
This is how to monitor it!
Oh, this is so good! Our modular home sits over a shallow crawl space. That by itself is annoying in itself in an over-55 community. At 76, do you think I want to be crawling around down there? Do you think any handy-man wants to do that for cheap money? Yeah, you get the picture.
Beyond that, our water pipes are there. They are up near the floor of the house, and insulation gives them some protection from the cold of the crawl space. They also are wrapped in heat tape. Heat tape can fail, and outside temperatures can get cold enough to laugh at insulation.
Global warming may end that worry someday, but there’s another problem. I could close up the crawl space access windows to help keep out the cold, but then I’d have a humidity problem, and that can be nasty.
So, I want to monitor both of those things. I’ve tried to do that with outdoor Bluetooth sensors, but those have limited range and are easily blocked by things like metal and concrete; things obviously present in the crawl space.
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This was recommended to me by someone who is using one inside a refrigerator in an outdoor shed. You definitely…
