How can I reduce condensation in my home? Here’s our advice:
Advice for Reducing Condensation
• Reduce moisture sources
• Stop or severely limit the use of humidifiers, or adjust them to the appropriate setting
• Run a dehumidifier, if needed
• Limit plants, aquariums and pets. If you care for a lot of plants, group them in one sunny room and avoid over watering.
• Have your gas appliances checked, if you have not recently. Malfunctioning gas appliances can deliver excessive water vapor into the air along with more dangerous contaminants. Be sure you have a carbon monoxide alarm.
• Store firewood outside
• Eliminate plumbing leaks
• Don’t air-dry clothes indoors
• Correct grading/drainage problems around exterior of your home
• Increase ventilation
• Open windows for a few minutes each day, particularly after steam-producing activities such as showering/bathing, laundry, and cooking. Heat loss will be minimal.
• Run kitchen, bathroom, and other fans longer and more often.
• Improve or add a ventilation system in your home through attic, roof and soffit venting. Ensure that everything vents to outside.
• Open blinds and drapes. Heavy window coverings restrict the flow of warm air over the interior glass surface.
• Operate ceiling fan to improve air circulation.
• Increase Air Temperature
• Raise the temperature inside the house
• Insulate under the seat and over the head of the bay, bow, and garden windows to keep area warmer.
• Direct warm-air supplies ducts toward windows or even us a fan for increased air circulation at windows.