Water and condensation between glass panes making windows misty

james_williamson_6544

On a lot of my double pane windows, I am having condensation and water build-up between the two glasses making it misty. 
What is a good fix for it and what will be a genuine cost to fix this?
Why will almost all of the windows develop this misty behaviour
Thanks for the help.

Swoosh84

Usually signifies a break in the seal somewhere. Hopefully its just the rubber seals around the windows. Are you able to visibly inspect and see how the rubber is looking? It should be soft and flexible to the touch.

Ectophile

The solution is to have the glazing panel taken out and replaced by a local glazing company.  It shouldn't happen very often, if the glazing panels were made up properly in the first place.

neilmcl

james_williamson_6544 said:

On a lot of my double pane windows, I am having condensation and water build-up between the two glasses making it misty. 
What is a good fix for it and what will be a genuine cost to fix this?
Why will almost all of the windows develop this misty behaviour
Thanks for the help.

This is entirely standard for double glazing units over a certain age, the seal in the glazing unit eventually fails and you get the result you're seeing now. There's no fix as such other than to get the units themselves (rather than the whole window) replaced. Look at around £100 per unit, dependant on the size of course, there's probably a local glazing company in your area that specialises in this sort of thing.

Alter_ego

Perfectly possible to DIY if you can measure accurately, use ladders, follow instructions (youtube) Order online, you can buy for around £30-35 per unit. (Well that was 3 yrs ago)

KimJongUn88

Swoosh84 said:

Usually signifies a break in the seal somewhere. Hopefully its just the rubber seals around the windows. Are you able to visibly inspect and see how the rubber is looking? It should be soft and flexible to the touch.

What are you on about? The double glazed glass units are sealed and cannot be repaired. Once the seals go, the only thing to do is to buy new units and refit them into the existing window frames. The external beading that goes around the glass units are junky there to hold them into the frames.