There is some good advice here, especially about using a green house to dry the clothes, my wife uses ours the whole year round for drying clothes and growing things, its so much cheaper that using a clothes dryer, where we live its 4 months winter and 8 months rain.
Condensation is a life style thing, we all close the windows and doors in order to keep warm and save money.
We all breath and sweat and create about 2.5 litres of water vapour each per 24 hours and children and animals being more active produce more. We all sweat about 330 grams of water while in bed regulating our temperature and this goes directly into our mattress and bed clothes, resulting cold beds.
Add to this is the water from cooking, washing and drying clothes, a tidy amount during the winter.
Air containing water vapour is lighter than dry air, so it rises and travells through the plasterboard ceilings, where this is not possible, it heads for the nearest cold surface and condenses onto or into whatever it is, usually a window.
You can get rid of water vapour by opening a window for a while, this costs as all your expensive heat disapears at the same time.
You can wait for the spring and warm weather when it will disapear.
Or you can buy and use a de-humidifer.
Opening windows has the additional benefit of bringing into your home some fresh air, five mins in the morning will be enough.
Using a de-humidifier means giving up on fresh air but, dry air is cheaper to heat than wet air, dry walls are quicker to warm up and the rooms feel nicer.
Probably, on balance a de-humidifer bought and left on 24 hours a day will prove best, after it gets the humidity under control, it will come on less and less until it hardly comes on at all.
Condensation is a life style thing, we all close the windows and doors in order to keep warm and save money.
We all breath and sweat and create about 2.5 litres of water vapour each per 24 hours and children and animals being more active produce more. We all sweat about 330 grams of water while in bed regulating our temperature and this goes directly into our mattress and bed clothes, resulting cold beds.
Add to this is the water from cooking, washing and drying clothes, a tidy amount during the winter.
Air containing water vapour is lighter than dry air, so it rises and travells through the plasterboard ceilings, where this is not possible, it heads for the nearest cold surface and condenses onto or into whatever it is, usually a window.
You can get rid of water vapour by opening a window for a while, this costs as all your expensive heat disapears at the same time.
You can wait for the spring and warm weather when it will disapear.
Or you can buy and use a de-humidifer.
Opening windows has the additional benefit of bringing into your home some fresh air, five mins in the morning will be enough.
Using a de-humidifier means giving up on fresh air but, dry air is cheaper to heat than wet air, dry walls are quicker to warm up and the rooms feel nicer.
Probably, on balance a de-humidifer bought and left on 24 hours a day will prove best, after it gets the humidity under control, it will come on less and less until it hardly comes on at all.
