Mould (condensation) Rented home - Advice please

savemoney

We dry clothes sometime indoors and have two dehumidifiers one a very noisy very old one we keep in porch and another one upstairs and I am a light sleepy is a condensing type Mitsubishi and its very quite its no more noisy than a pc fan on, it wasn't cheap but it extracts a lot of water

I just done a small job today at my daughters who gets mould under bay window, we stripped wallpaper back, washed walls with diluted bleach and uses a product called Zinseer Perma white

http://www.screwfix.com/p/zinsser-self-priming-paint-white-1ltr/13040

It has good anti mould properties in it and I have used there products before and found them excellent

Most people get some mould in houses/flats its just a result of the way we live now I get a very small amount of edge of windows after 3-4 weeks which easily comes off with a wipe.

Also you cant judge all condensing dehumidifiers the same some are better than others, some can work in cold environments and also some are quite just like the desiccant ones

HappyMJ

I must be the only one to keep windows open in mid winter. They aren't open wide. They are UPVC windows locked in the ventilation position and the curtains are open. I dry clothes indoors, cook without using the exhaust fan and the shower room/bathroom does not have a window and gets very steamy after a shower. The flat is also very small at 58 square metres.

There is little problem with condensation and no problem at all with mould.

GwylimT

It can be a pain. I once owned a home that was damp no matter what you did as it was by the coast, so opening the windows replaced damp air with more damp air. Extractors in the bathroom and kitchen, vented tumble drier in an outhouse, we had airbricks in most rooms as well, made !!!!!! all difference.

We live in a flat at the moment, all washing (a load a day) dried indoors in the autumn and winter, windowless bathroom with a fairly rubbish extractor fan, not the slightest sign of damp.