Condensation in basement room

[IAN999]

Hi

Hoping others have experiance of this and can advise. I have a basement room that has a window in it (not opened much) and there is a build up of condensation in a couple of the corners causing the wall and celing to get damp there. The air also smells a bit musky.

Im planning to start using it as a bedroom and so need it to be condensation free. I know opening the window will improve the position but in the cold winter months I dont want to be opening the window or when its raining. So Im looking to put in a mechanical system that will ventilate the room. Ive been looking around and found the Kair Heat Recovery Room Ventilator K-HRV150/12RH unit. It looks quite good as it stops cold air getting in when changing the air - as air bricks or other ventilation units would do.

Question is does anyone have any experiance of using this unit or a similar unit? Is there something better on the market that i should look at instead that does not bring in cold air?

I would appreciate your thoughts and advice

Thanks

 

[sxturbo]

Seems to be as good an option as any.

My parents live in a solid walled house and each of the bedrooms have manual ventilation holes, they get rather cold in the winter, so looks like this solution would be ideal

 

[Steveb21]

Hi

Hoping others have experiance of this and can advise. I have a basement room that has a window in it (not opened much) and there is a build up of condensation in a couple of the corners causing the wall and celing to get damp there. The air also smells a bit musky.

Im planning to start using it as a bedroom and so need it to be condensation free. I know opening the window will improve the position but in the cold winter months I dont want to be opening the window or when its raining. So Im looking to put in a mechanical system that will ventilate the room. Ive been looking around and found the Kair Heat Recovery Room Ventilator K-HRV150/12RH unit. It looks quite good as it stops cold air getting in when changing the air - as air bricks or other ventilation units would do.

Question is does anyone have any experiance of using this unit or a similar unit? Is there something better on the market that i should look at instead that does not bring in cold air?

I would appreciate your thoughts and advice

Thanks

Did you go down the route of installing the ventilator? I am doing something similar so would be good to have your thoughts on if it was worthwhile.
Many thanks.