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title: "Shop Notes: Bringing Stock In Before Winter"
url: https://seventhdesigns.com/shop-notes-humidity
description: "Stock moved from an outbuilding into a heated room needs weeks, not days, and it needs air on every face."
published: 2013-08-05
updated: 2013-08-05
---

# Shop Notes: Bringing Stock In Before Winter

Published 2013-08-05

Status

August 5, 2013 — filed in [Materials](https://seventhdesigns.com/materials)

Stock moved from an unheated outbuilding into a heated room needs weeks to settle, not days, and it needs air on every face while it does. Stickered in a stack with spacers between the layers, boards give up moisture evenly and stay flat. Piled solid on the floor they dry from the outside in, and the outer boards cup while the inner ones stay wet. Anything cut from the stack before it has stopped moving will be cut to a dimension that no longer exists a month later.