How do I stop condensation?

Linda32

I have the same problem as well in the bedrooms. Its awful isn't it. We have a Dehumidifier in one bedroom which we leave on all night. But we can't in our bedroom as its not quiet :rolleyes: I use one of those things which are really meant for caravans etc. Its a sort of box with crystals in which soak up the mositure. It helps a bit, you can get them from Homebase or Wilkinsons.

We have the heating on during the evening but not through the night, I have to use really absortbant clothes each morning to dry the windows.

DonnaP

Hi

I thought it was just us!

We have just replaced all our windows and its still happening! DD2's room is now deleloping mould around the window.:eek:

I wipe the windows each morning but we too don't have the heating on all night. Apart from the cost, I was never brought up to be that warm - coal fires etc and feel it would be very extravagent to do this. Also, once you are asleep you don't know how cold it is. :rotfl:

I was thinking of buying a de-humidifyer and placing it a different bedroom during the day and see what effect that has.

Do other people not get this problem because they have the heating on 24 hours a day?

Donna

Gigervamp

As the previous posters have said, ventilation and warmth to help dry it out.

Before we moved into this house, we lived next door and the tenants in here never used the heating in all the time they were here. Consequently, when they moved out, the place was covered in mould, even up the stairwell which goes right up to the roof. It was absolutely disgusting.

We still get a damp problem in the bathroom, but I make sure I open the window when it's too moist in there and I clean the mould that forms around the toilet cistern and above the window.

kippers

We used to have a real problem with condensation. We have double glazing but our heating was quite old and didn't heat to a good temperature so we bought a de-humidifier which helped a bit. We had new central heating but still found we had condensation so still used the de-humidifier. When the de-humidifier broke we did some research which made us realise that we didn't have the heating on long enough (we used to have it on for 1 hour in the morning and two at night). We now have it on for 1 and half hours in the morning and four hours in the evening and it has made such a difference. We open our bedroom windows for about an hour each morning and now we NEVER dry clothes on the radiators.

We still get a little condensation on our double glazed windows and the one single glazed window is still covered in the morning when it's cold outside but the difference is it clears very very quickly when the heating comes on.

Hope this helps

Linda32

When its not quite so cold I do open the windows every day, but as we are out at work all day they would have to stay open all day, :eek: abit cold for that at the moment.

One of our bedrooms is double glazed and the other one isn't, double glazing makes no difference here. They are both as bad!!!

I wonder why we only get it on the bedroom windows and not on the other windows :rolleyes:

Bennifred

Linda32 wrote: »

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I wonder why we only get it on the bedroom windows and not on the other windows :rolleyes:

That's because you are breathing out water vapour all night, which condenses on the cold glass.

DonnaP

Bennifred wrote: »

That's because you are breathing out water vapour all night, which condenses on the cold glass.

But why does that explain why we get it badly on ALL bedrooms, even the guest bedroom where no one sleeps!

davetaylor

Glad it's not just me. I have my heating on for most of the day so the house is certainly not cold. I am trying to open the windows for about 20 mins at a time just to let some fresh air in.

yummyhoney

i have the same prob,,my heating on all day and comes on at 5 in the morn and my windows are saturated everyday,,my windows are open from 8 in morn till 4 and i need to wipe down wooden blinds everyday as they were getting destroyed in mould,,my hubby think i'm obssesing about teh windows as i give him a run down everyday as to what i had to do:))glad it'snot just ours also,,i've been watching the neighbours houses also lol

dixie_dean_2

It's very, very common. We have the dehumidifyer, aka, Hugh, on pretty constantly in the spare room. We keep all doors closed when we cook (a lot of moisture from steam, even washing up) or have a bath or shower. Have the bedroom window open, even if just a crack overnight and also try to have the windows open as much as possible, eg, when we get home, open the bedroom windows for an hour or so and turn the heating off in those rooms, with doors shut of course). Even then we still get mould! You just have to do the best you can and be very vigilant!