How Do You Cure Condensation In Your Home?

It’s roughly estimated that one in five British homes suffer with condensation problems, so around 20 per cent of our overall housing stock.

That seems accurate enough to us going by the number of condensation-related conversations we have with customers.

What they want to know most is how they can stop it as they get fed up of waking up to soaking wet windows.

Good ventilation is the secret!

Our homes get full of moisture in the winter because we have the heating on high and generate warm air through cooking and showering, whilst, understandably, keeping our windows closed.

When this warm air meets the icy cold surface of a glass pane, it causes those water droplets that we’re all so familiar with to form on the inside.

What it needs is to be able to escape, which it won’t be able to do if you don’t have an extractor fan in most rooms and vents around the house.

Another solution is to have your old single-glazed windows taken out and exchanged for energy efficient double-glazed windows.

Because they’re much warmer, energy efficient double-glazed windows are less prone to internal condensation.

They can get external condensation, most typically in March/April and October due to a high Dew Point and vast temperature swings, but this will evaporate as soon as some sunlight or a breeze hits it.

In the interim, until you have better ventilation and/or new windows fitted, we urge you to remove any condensation, each time it appears, with a towel.

If you keep leaving it alone, it could eventually result in mould or damp (both of which are damaging to your health) and cause serious structural damage.

A lot more information about condensation can be found in a Helpful Guide Pennine has done on this very common phenomenon.

You can download it for FREE here.