Wet windows!!

Tink_04

OK we have double glazed windows in our 1900's high ceiling house and now the weather is changing the bedroom windows are fogged up and wet on the inside.

We have me DH & DS in our room (main road so we don't level the windows open at night) and the door is closed so the cat doesn't come in DD is in her room with the door not quite closed properly but the bedroom windows are always wet on a morning. We have lived here 8 years and have tried everything! I open the windows as soon as we are up and wiped and dry all the water up but again it's like this all autumn & winter.

The house is not damp and is always aired well but we do have to dry Wasing indoors but we never use the bedrooms to do this and is always in a well aired room and finished on the radiator in the living or dining room.

Can I do any more or do I just have to live with this?

newbie1980

try getting a dehumidifier

theres too much moisture in the air which is attracted to the coldest parts of the house hence the windows and corner of rooms

chaliepud

I agree, we have a dehumidifier and it helps a lot, I open cupbaord doors too so they don't get damp as on an outside wall. I have a few of these dotted around the house too..
http://www.amazon.co.uk/UniBond-1807937-Moisture-Absorber-Device/dp/B00F1DNYPE/ref=sr_1_3?s=kitchen&ie=UTF8&qid=1444070164&sr=1-3&keywords=unibond+dehumidifier

meanmarie

I recently saw on Facebook a tip to keep your car windows from fogging up: cat litter in a sock, placed in dashboard......would this work on window sill? Maybe worth a cheap try?

HTH

Marie

Slinky

Shut the cat in somewhere else (ours sleeps in the kitchen) and leave your other doors open so that you don't concentrate all 3 of you breathing overnight into the same trapped air.

FrugalWorker

In a previous apartment, I took a small amount of moisturiser on the window as a big warning sign I need to dry out the air.

- Drying clothes indoors are a big no no - Do you have a shed or garden in which you could put up some shelter to put them outside.
- When you're cooking - at a minimum you need to run an extractor fan but really you need to open a window
- After/while showering open a window and run an extractor fan if you have one.
- The reason your seeing it in the morning, you've been breathing out moisture in a room without sufficient ventilation.

I was lucky for drying my clothes, my front door opened out to a really private area. I put my clothes out in the hall with the front door open, and then the inner door closed. Think outside the box - what could you do differently.

Do you have vents on your windows? They may slide open (I had them and thought they were open by default - infact I didn't realise they were closed till a builder was in and showed me).

You need a better de-humidifier or you need to produce less moisture in the house. Might be cheaper to bring your clothes to dry in a launderette than to run a higher duty de-humidifier (expensive to run).

Longer term you may need to install more air vents in the house. I had to in my apartment and it made a big difference. The house was built over 100 years ago, when we had lots of natural ventilation, but I'm sure you've now insulated it, installed double glazing, etc... You need some air!

Not addressing this may lead to mould (check out the corners of your room, or pull out some heavy pieces of furniture and look behind them) - This is really bad for your, and your childrens, health.

Tink_04

Thanks - we are in an upstairs flat so there is nowhere to dry washing outdoors - I take large stuff to my parents, towels and bedding which helps a bit.

We are in the process of selling and don't really want to start any sort of building work. There is no mold in the house or these rooms as we have checked and i do dry and aor the rooms as much as possible.

Would a dehumidifier make much noise at night if I were to run it in the bedroom? Or is there anything else j can put in the rooms to help as is only overnight - I've bought some things in the past which were rubbish!

PasturesNew

Dehumidifier - Lidl have them coming up at £120 this week.

You don't have to run the dehumidifier at night if you don't want to - simply put it on when you wake up and let it do its thing.

Linda32

We use a dehumidifier and it really does the job. I said on another thread that without it we have wet windowsills never mind windows. This being in the room that we do not sleep in. Both our bedrooms central heated the same and windows open all day every day.

They are very quiet, ours runs in our spare room with us asleep in the room next door. It comes on as it senses it needs too, which we do not hear.