Ah condensation!

[Tarzan]

Morning all. now the Autumn is upon us,tempratures are now are a droppin, l am starting to get condensation on me windows- what can l do it freaks me out, are there any products from B&Q l can buy that work .......help l am drowning in the stuff.

[anthonyTD]

Morning all. now the Autumn is upon us,tempratures are now are a droppin, l am starting to get condensation on me windows- what can l do it freaks me out, are there any products from B&Q l can buy that work .......help l am drowning in the stuff.

hi tarzan,
i have a similar problem in the little work shop i use downstairs at home, drives me nuts every year,:steam: i have heard people say to wipe a half potatoe over the glass, i havent tried this but worth a go i supose.
Anthony,TD...

[Rare Bird]

Dont you have trickle vents on your windows?

[Tarzan]

Yup, tried opening them, no good.:(

[Rare Bird]

Thats odd cos thats part of what they are for

[Reid Malenfant]

Get yourself a de-humidifier ;) Don't get one of the gel pack types, get a compressor driver model (a bit like a fridge but much smaller).

I have the same if not an even worse problem :doh: The house is victorian & doesn't have cavity walls, as soon as it starts getting cold outside condensation forms on the walls in areas with low air flow. Places such as corners of rooms etc & mould can form.

Removing the moisture from the air effectively cures this. I have to empty about 3L of water from this thing daily, that'd be all over the walls & windows :eek:

Put the thing somewhere in the house that it can collect moisture from all over. A downstairs hallway is a good bet, if not the kitchen due to all that moisture from cooking :eyebrows:

[anthonyTD]

hi mark,
i also live in a victorian house with no cavities so i know where your coming from!
Anthony,TD...

[DSJR]

Same here, but in my case it's Andr'e's fault for posting my favourite sex goddess from yesteryear as his avatar :lol:

[Reid Malenfant]

Same here, but in my case it's Andr'e's fault for posting my favourite sex goddess from yesteryear as his avatar :lol:
:lolsign:

I'm not sure i recognise the female (very nice though), the car looks kind of familiar :eyebrows:

Isn't it something that a chap called Straker would normally drive? :scratch:

[hifinutt]

yes i have battled condensation for many years .
after using that hairdyer plastic film on the windows for some years with some success i made some glass secondary glazing and installed at low cost but the condensatiin still comes a bit
had to resort to double glazing at the back as i was drowning too.

i use 2 dehumidifiers but find they are only moderately successful and are noisy and spread dust

[Reid Malenfant]

i use 2 dehumidifiers but find they are only moderately successful and are noisy and spread dust
I use 2 as well ;) Try turning them off for a few days when it's really cold outside & then you'll find out how sucsessful they actually are ;)

There is only two ways of curing the problem. 1. Don't heat your house, don't cook & stop breathing :eyebrows: Or 2. Move to somewhere like Morocco :)

You'll never win because we as humans exhale quite a bit of moisture & while we live in a temperate climate it's just something we have to put up with. Besides, it's only a problem for about half the year :doh: :eyebrows:

[Tarzan]

Got double glazing where the condensation occurs, l am trying an experiment where l am keeping the heating on low........ will report back in dew course- pun intended:(.

[shane]

As you know, you get condensation when moist air meets a surface colder than it is. We used to have ancient double glazing that was totally ineffective so the inside glass got cold and we got loads of condensation. Got new double glazing which is so efficient that the outside glass doesn't get any heating atall from within and gets really cold, so rather than getting condensation inside, we get it outside instead. Better, because we're warm and dry, but I still can't see out the bloody windows in the morning!

[jantheman]

A dehumidifier has worked for us, yes, again in a victorian solid wall house.
It's a bit of a pain in some respects, not leaving windows / doors open etc but once we got into a routine about the way we did things we seem to have it sorted. Theres a woman down the road who couldnt understand why her dehumidifier was chucking out buckets every day, she was still not convinced when I told her that she needed to close her windows or she would be trying to dry out the rest of the world.....:lolsign:

[Reid Malenfant]

Theres a woman down the road who couldnt understand why her dehumidifier was chucking out buckets every day, she was still not convinced when I told her that she needed to close her windows or she would be trying to dry out the rest of the world.....:lolsign:
:brainfart: :eyebrows: Yes, you do need to keep all external doors & windows firmly shut as much as possible when going this route, but it's worth it :eyebrows:

I have been using them for well over 12 years so know the drill ;)