HELP NEEDED - mouldy bathroom ceiling

dampdaveski

cheapest and easiest thing to do is clean the mould off your ceiling, redecorate using an ordinary contract emulsion (or bathroom paint doesn't really matter) and stick an anti mould additive in the paint.
cheapest i've found (and I use gallons of the stuff) is on www.condensationproducts.co.uk They sell 100ml bottles of the additive for the same price or cheaper than others who sell it in 50ml bottles.
As I say I've used this stuff dozens and dozens of times with excellent results
to compare try www.twistfix.co.uk , www.dampshop.com, in fact just google anti mould paint additive, there's loads of em

Improving the heating isn't a bad idea either
hope this helps
DD

jemw

Hi Everyone

Thank you all for your replies - very useful as usual

ariba10

One thing to look at. Is the extractor fan mounted high enogh up the wall?

We had the same problem due to the shape of the roof and got arround it by mounting the fan in the ceiling and out through a vent tile in the roof.

donglefan

Lack of heat seems the most likely cause.
There are sites on the net I think, where you can input the dimensions of a simple rectangular shaped room and it will calculate the recommened btu output for a radiator. A bathroom shop will do it for you too. Go a bit overspec for a bathroom.
If you have an old fashioned heating system with a hot water tank you can run the hot water from the tank into the towel radiator so it's hot for longer periods than the ordinary heating system.

jemw

Hiya

Thanks again for your comments.

Spoke to hubby who has agreed we can replace the rads now, as they need doing soon ish anyway.

Will speak to bathroom shop re recommended BTU and also consider the dual fuel option, but must admit, these look very expensive?

Will also look into the additive for the paint, so this can be redone once the other issues have been sorted and ch timer re-set.

The fan is situated as high as physically possible on the wall , immediately underneath the ceiling. However, the mould is unfortunately forming on the other side of the room (which isn't really that big).

Thanks again - I've posted separately about if it is worthwhile taking the old rads to the scrap merchants to cash in the metal weight or whether i should just let the scrap man take them when the time comes ...

roswell

Im pretty sure dulux do a anti mould bathroom paint, also look at replacing your fan for somethinglike this, http://www.screwfix.com/prods/45360/Heating-Cooling/Extractor-Fans/Xpelair-CF20-Centrifugal-34W-Bathroom-Fan

The humidistate keeps the fan on till the humity in the room is lower than the setting on the stat eg it knows when to turn off instead of you guessing when its not needed any more.

donglefan

New towel rads are often less than half shop price on ebay.