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Originally Posted by ddumas10
Anyone have ideas on how to get rid of the musty smell in our enclosed airconditioned lanai.
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The only way I know of is to find and fix the source of the excessive moisture in there.
Either water/condensation is somehow getting trapped somewhere (like in window or floor channels) and can't dry out relatively quickly, or there is condensation forming inside the lanai from changes in humidity/temperature levels and not drying out quickly. Maybe even some moisture is entering from an unsealed concrete lanai floor.
I don't know your situation or how you're using the AC system, but my first suspicion (if the lanai is always closed up from the outdoors), would be that the air conditioning is cooling the room OK, but not running long enough or circulating the air enough to remove the moisture too. The air in the lanai, although cool, becomes stagnant and moist. Then if you turn off the AC and close the sliding glass doors for the night, the trouble might begin there. If there was a way to let outdoor air circulate in the lanai when unused, (especially during the day when the air is drier) that's where I'd start. That, and buy a couple of combination temperature/humidity gauges to monitor the actual humidity level out there.