Damp and mould - Dom Post today.
Mar 4th 2008, 8:11 pm
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When we owned a caravan a few years ago it was common practice for everyone on the caravan park to wipe over the windows every morning with a bit of washing up liquid on a damp cloth, leave it soapy and it disapears in minutes, no steamed up windows for two or three days after that, so it must help the condesation inside the house.
Only trouble is, if you do have a very humid atmosphere in your home and the moisture is not lost (say on a cold window/metal part) and then collected on the squeegie or towel then it will tend to condense out somewhere else - if that is in your roof timbers then you could be storing up trouble! That is one of the reasons that loft eaves need to be ventilated in the UK, to prevent damp and rot in roof spaces.
Mar 4th 2008, 8:37 pm
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Re: Damp and mould - Dom Post today.
When we owned a caravan a few years ago it was common practice for everyone on the caravan park to wipe over the windows every morning with a bit of washing up liquid on a damp cloth, leave it soapy and it disapears in minutes, no steamed up windows for two or three days after that, so it must help the condesation inside the house.
Do find your house has the same condensation levels as your caravan ?
Mar 5th 2008, 8:06 am
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Yes, it's an old trick to clean things like bathroom mirrors with wash-up liquid to stop them getting steamed up so much. Also works well with spectacles, but boy oh boy, we have miles of windows so I'm not finding any love for cleaning the windows every few days. 
Also the oft mentioned suggestion of opening your doors and windows during the middle of the day, works great I guess if people are actually home during the day. Hence it doesnt work in this household and we rely entirely on the dehumidifiers.
Just for 'laughs' (I get my kicks in some funny ways), since it was a misog of a day I put the dehumidifier on yesterday, it's been going about 36 hours and barely collected 2 inches of water. Few weeks time and that will be a very different story.
Also the oft mentioned suggestion of opening your doors and windows during the middle of the day, works great I guess if people are actually home during the day. Hence it doesnt work in this household and we rely entirely on the dehumidifiers.
Just for 'laughs' (I get my kicks in some funny ways), since it was a misog of a day I put the dehumidifier on yesterday, it's been going about 36 hours and barely collected 2 inches of water. Few weeks time and that will be a very different story.
Mar 5th 2008, 8:14 am
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Re: Damp and mould - Dom Post today.
Yes, it's an old trick to clean things like bathroom mirrors with wash-up liquid to stop them getting steamed up so much. Also works well with spectacles, but boy oh boy, we have miles of windows so I'm not finding any love for cleaning the windows every few days.
Also the oft mentioned suggestion of opening your doors and windows during the middle of the day, works great I guess if people are actually home during the day. Hence it doesnt work in this household and we rely entirely on the dehumidifiers.
Just for 'laughs' (I get my kicks in some funny ways), since it was a misog of a day I put the dehumidifier on yesterday, it's been going about 36 hours and barely collected 2 inches of water. Few weeks time and that will be a very different story.
Also the oft mentioned suggestion of opening your doors and windows during the middle of the day, works great I guess if people are actually home during the day. Hence it doesnt work in this household and we rely entirely on the dehumidifiers.
Just for 'laughs' (I get my kicks in some funny ways), since it was a misog of a day I put the dehumidifier on yesterday, it's been going about 36 hours and barely collected 2 inches of water. Few weeks time and that will be a very different story.
They certainly helped though.No damp, very little condensation (windows probably too dirty for water to stick, so to speak?!) and surprisingly son who used to be hospitalised at least once a year with asthma has stopped using his inhalers, been 11 months now ...
Mar 5th 2008, 8:24 am
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Re: Damp and mould - Dom Post today.
We must be lucky, although we thought we were going to freeze to death in the first 3 weeks of moving in here in June, we've not suffered with damp at all. We have no double glazing and no central heating, we have a gas fire & some underfloor heating which to be honest we never used. We did get ridiculously excited when we were the winning bid on a couple of old calor gas portable heaters on TradeMe like your Granny used to have! They certainly helped though.
No damp, very little condensation (windows probably too dirty for water to stick, so to speak?!) and surprisingly son who used to be hospitalised at least once a year with asthma has stopped using his inhalers, been 11 months now ...
They certainly helped though.No damp, very little condensation (windows probably too dirty for water to stick, so to speak?!) and surprisingly son who used to be hospitalised at least once a year with asthma has stopped using his inhalers, been 11 months now ...
Is that the house you are advertising for sale?
Glad to hear your son is in better health
Mar 5th 2008, 8:31 am
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No damp if you don't use the underfloor heating is good going though.
I put my windows not getting condensation down to my using the heating a lot but I now think it's more that the windows are not exactly draughtproof.
I was in a new build apartment for 3 weeks in Central Wellie last July and could not believe the condensation levels.....unbelievable. No matter how often I mopped it up it would be back within a couple of hours.
Mar 5th 2008, 9:14 am
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Hate to be the harbinger of doom but if the condensation is not coming out on your windows/walls, etc and you don't have forced ventilation and/or a decent heating system to get rid, then it may be ending up in places you can't see - like your loft insulation (and hence the timbers) or inside walls, in other interstices, etc - if these are cool enough compared to the living spaces and your house is pretty "leaky" (on the ventilation front, not a true "leaky building") then my understanding is that condensation could form there and do (unseen) damage.......hence all the warnings from the BRE.
Tis true that slightly draughty places are better (the whole point of vents in soffits, etc) but very draughty ones are going to be worse as winter air is likely to be moisture laden (even in BoP) and cold, thereby increasing some of the damp-producing conditions. In that case I suppose that some form of background heating will tend to keep the cold damp air out.
Probably best to ignore me though as I am a serial pessimist......
Tis true that slightly draughty places are better (the whole point of vents in soffits, etc) but very draughty ones are going to be worse as winter air is likely to be moisture laden (even in BoP) and cold, thereby increasing some of the damp-producing conditions. In that case I suppose that some form of background heating will tend to keep the cold damp air out.
Probably best to ignore me though as I am a serial pessimist......
Mar 5th 2008, 9:17 am
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When we came on our reccie my Hubby's uncle in Auckland told us to go to Rotorua with our son and make him breath slow and deep - we did - and he was also feeling much better.
I wonder now we live here whether it's the sea air?
Mar 5th 2008, 5:48 pm
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I like you...you're clevernow that is interesting - maybe something to do with surface tension and droplet formation (maybe its like clouds where you need dust or something for the droplets to form on? hence how the rain-making systems work, hold on Beijing.......)
Only trouble is, if you do have a very humid atmosphere in your home and the moisture is not lost (say on a cold window/metal part) and then collected on the squeegie or towel then it will tend to condense out somewhere else - if that is in your roof timbers then you could be storing up trouble! That is one of the reasons that loft eaves need to be ventilated in the UK, to prevent damp and rot in roof spaces.
Only trouble is, if you do have a very humid atmosphere in your home and the moisture is not lost (say on a cold window/metal part) and then collected on the squeegie or towel then it will tend to condense out somewhere else - if that is in your roof timbers then you could be storing up trouble! That is one of the reasons that loft eaves need to be ventilated in the UK, to prevent damp and rot in roof spaces.
Mar 5th 2008, 7:55 pm
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Yes, it's an old trick to clean things like bathroom mirrors with wash-up liquid to stop them getting steamed up so much. Also works well with spectacles, but boy oh boy, we have miles of windows so I'm not finding any love for cleaning the windows every few days. .....
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Mar 5th 2008, 7:56 pm
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Mar 8th 2008, 11:41 pm
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It's his avatar that causes the confusion 
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Mar 9th 2008, 1:41 am
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Yes, it's an old trick to clean things like bathroom mirrors with wash-up liquid to stop them getting steamed up so much. Also works well with spectacles, but boy oh boy, we have miles of windows so I'm not finding any love for cleaning the windows every few days.
Also the oft mentioned suggestion of opening your doors and windows during the middle of the day, works great I guess if people are actually home during the day. Hence it doesnt work in this household and we rely entirely on the dehumidifiers.
Just for 'laughs' (I get my kicks in some funny ways), since it was a misog of a day I put the dehumidifier on yesterday, it's been going about 36 hours and barely collected 2 inches of water. Few weeks time and that will be a very different story.
Also the oft mentioned suggestion of opening your doors and windows during the middle of the day, works great I guess if people are actually home during the day. Hence it doesnt work in this household and we rely entirely on the dehumidifiers.
Just for 'laughs' (I get my kicks in some funny ways), since it was a misog of a day I put the dehumidifier on yesterday, it's been going about 36 hours and barely collected 2 inches of water. Few weeks time and that will be a very different story.
We have security "stays"(I think that's what they are called) fitted on some of our aliminum windows so can have some ventilation while at work.