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[hondaracer2oo4]

I'll be interested to see Coolidge if you nailed your issue with the floor, remind me what you found again with it?

[coolidge]

Too be honest I am not totally shure what I did was the problem, but everything pointed to it.
I did find some moisture between the slab and Insulation, thermal imaging showed much cooler slab temps in the back half of the slab

[hondaracer2oo4]

Yeah, that's why I will be interested to see. I think it was because any water trapped between the slab and vapor barrier would dry quickly I would think with the heat of the slab unless it was constantly being replaced by more ground water.

[aarmga]

I have 7 cords up on pallets drying since last June. This will be my first year with 1.5 year seasoned wood. I will be really interested to see how it burns. Last year my wood was seasoned 6 months. I burned 6.75 cords last winter and the winter before  with 6 month seasoned wood. That was down from 12-13 cords of unseasoned wood that I used to burn in the old hardy h4. I split a piece of oak the other day which had the bark falling off, is dark gray/ black on the ends and very cracked. It metered at 35% mc on the fresh split!!!! The ends measured 22%. Wow! Even the maple was only down to only 25%. This was measured with the 4 prong meter that came with the g200. Its a nice meter but damn is it accurate? The wood all has the bark fall off and has that loud crack when banged togeather.

The meter I have says the only way to get an accurate reading is to measure the moisture right away after a split on the split face of the log.  This is the way I alsways try and take my readings now.  If I don't I usually try and add about 10% moisture from the end of the log reading.