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how fast does wood absorb moisture? relative humidity where i am is at
14 to 16%. My wood was dried to 8%; specie is meranti. weather is
sometimes rainy.

If the wood has a constant source of condensed moisture, read that as
setting into apuddle of water it will eventually become water logged.
Humidity has little effect by compairison. I live in Houston and the
humidity level is consistantly above 80%. No lumber supplier in Houston
that I know of stores their lumber in a low humidity environment. Over time
the humidity level will cause some dimentional changes however the moisture
content of the wood is not going to go back up to 80% here in Houston if
kept out of the rain.
As an example, when using new cedar pickets they are often still wet when I
nail them up on a fence. A week to 10 days later the pickets shrink and dry
out in this humid environment.



what factors affect wood to absorb and not to absorb moisture?

thanks,

NORY