Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 21:58:15 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: REviewer's workshop
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

dicconf <dicconf at radix.net> wrote:
> One thing: waterproof paint on the bottom cement blocks, if you're
> going to have this sitting on any floor close to the ground.  The
> damn things are porous enough to wick dampness up from below, whence
> it seeps into the boards your books are sitting on.

Depends on the floor.

Cement and pine boards make excellent temporary shelving.  Mine have
been set up for 26 years.  I may replace them with something more
permanent in another 26 years.  Or maybe 26 years after that.  Mine is
a basement apartment, but the floor is never damp, so the books never
get damp, even though the blocks aren't painted.

> Oh, and it might not be a good idea to use pine or spruce; the resin
> could make the bottoms of the books adhere to the shelves.  Fun.

The boards, on the other hand, *are* painted.