Outer Vinyl Sleeves, is it a good idea?

@billstevenson  I would think that mold could only be a concern in a very damp environment?  If you have that much moisture in the room, I suspect you have bigger issues than the vinyl.  Cheers.

@bigtwin I can't tell you where the mold came from on these records.  I can tell you that outer sleeves are present in every case.  Locale is South Florida and mold is a problem here if you're not careful.  I have records I bought dating back to the early 1960s with no mold, but then I've never used outer sleeves either.

I use vinyl storage solutions outer sleeves, and they seem to work well. With that said, unless you are collecting really valuable vinyl or buying records for resale, I wouldn’t think it would make that much difference whether outer sleeves are used or not

Mold is everywhere.

whart, because of semantic differences among words like “sleeve”, “envelope”, “jacket”, and “cover”, I am not really sure what it is you do, but anything that reduces the static charge that results from removing a vinyl LP from a paper inner sleeve (which is NOT the subject of this thread, or so I thought), is a good thing.

@lewm- my terminology probably wasn’t consistent either, does this  help?