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Curing all those Edgar Allan Poe cellars

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 19930627
Author:Peter C. Hotton, Globe Staff

If you read Edgar Allan Poe, you are certainly familiar with dank, damp cellars. Poe's cellars are always dank and damp.

But too often, yours and mine are, too. You go down in the basement and feel the dampness, and smell it, too. It's a musty, dead smell, caused by mildew that loves to grow in that damp, warm environment. Nothing can be stored in such an environment without it collecting mildew or rust.

Why are basements always damp? It's partly because they're mostly underground, but mostly because we tend to close them up tight, caulking all joints and chinks in the foundation and keeping ...

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