Local Cigar Storage - Lower Humidity

[luvdunhill]

I am considering using a local cigar locker service which is offered by a company that does wine storage. I went and asked a bunch of questions today and feel like it could be good move for me.

 

The temperature and humidity are controlled per collection of lockers and not individual. I don't believe the lockers are air tight (I might be able to add some weatherstripping to do this). Other than simply putting my cigars in an airtight container with my own lower humidity control devices inside, what are my options? Would dumping a few 60% ish Bovidas have a "localized" enough "range" to be effective? For example, put the tiny Bovedas in each box.

 

Here are two photos of the place I am considering:

 

 

 

Has anyone had experience doing this?

 

Thanks!!

[1moreVice]

Proper storage is pretty easy and inexpensive..plus, if they screw up, it's probably next to impossible to call them out on it and your stash would be blown..this combined with the fact that you wouldn't have immediate access to your sticks is enough reason to pass in my book.      

[luvdunhill]

For me, proper temperature storage isn't easy or inexpensive.

 

I would install a temp and humidity data logger inside the unit and grab the data one a week or so on my way home from work. I am tempted to pay for one month and just monitor the data before moving anything over.

 

While I don't have immediate access to my cigars, neither does my wife's prying eyes

 

Good points though, thanks for the reply!

 

[1moreVice]

just seems like it's more work than it's worth, unless a primary consideration is hiding them lol.  to each their own, of course.

*edited due to incorrect post quote

[danny]

The temperatures seem awfully high for cigars; wine I wouldn't know too much so couldn't say.  Anyways, If my cigars were anywhere near the others being stored at some of those levels, I'd have some major concerns.  It's almost as if they're trying to breed cigar beetles with those temperatures, some hitting 80+.   Yikes...

[luvdunhill]

The temperatures seem awfully high for cigars; wine I wouldn't know too much so couldn't say.  Anyways, If my cigars were anywhere near the others being stored at some of those levels, I'd have some major concerns.  It's almost as if they're trying to breed cigar beetles with those temperatures, some hitting 80+.   Yikes...

Apparently they just replaced their humidification system that day.

[PapaDisco]

In San Francisco, my bovedas (inside tupperdores with the cigars) will very slowly dry out (over 12 - 18 months), when I feel them getting dry but before they get crunchy, I take them with me to Saigon, where I swap them with those bovedas that have been slowly getting bloated.  This is all happening within ziplocks (which are permeable) and supposedly airtight (with a gasket) 40 gallon plastic tupperdores/lockers from the container store.  My point is that, for long term storage, I believe the bovedas will do what you need inside a tupper, but probably not the entire locker space (particularly with the questionable seal or lack thereof).  Stable temps are the first step, and stable humidity after that, but I would still prefer to have one more barrier between $10,000 worth of cigars and somebody else's unknown automation.

[PigFish]

... so what happens if one of the patrons drops a bottle of red, or one leaks all over the place and stinks the place up?

Only use if you rely on your own airtight system within their cooled space! MHO...

-Piggy

[PapaDisco]

17 minutes ago, PigFish said:

... so what happens if one of the patrons drops a bottle of red, or one leaks all over the place and stinks the place up?

Only use if you rely on your own airtight system within their cooled space! MHO...

-Piggy

The point of anything other than a desktop humidor is long term storage.  Maybe that's a year to you, maybe it's 10 or 20 years.  The longer it is, the more likely something unlikely will happen.  At least that's been my experience in life.