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CONDENSATION & MOULD GROWTH

Condensation and Mould Growth

PREVENTING CONDENSATION AND MOULD GROWTH

Dampness and mould growth in properties occurs more frequently during the winter months. We at Maljon have conducted a list of 6 different ways to help prevent moisture and mould growth from occurring inside your property!

1.      Ensure that you have a working extractor fan within your kitchen and bathroom areas! Extractor fans will help reduce the levels of moisture from these rooms as and when you are using them. The steam and hot air from baths/showers and cooking will end up finding the colder sections of your property which will cause condensation to occur.


2.      Sleep with the bedroom door closed? Try not to! The warm moist air you produce each night will become confined to your bedroom, which is why mould commonly forms in these rooms.


3.      Heating is a must but not necessary at a high level. If you want to make sure the colder parts of your house do not become damp, we strongly recommend that every room in the property is kept at an even temperature. If one room is colder than the rest, the warm air from other rooms will make its way into the cold part, causing condensation to occur on surfaces.


4.      Can your walls breathe? If you have furniture or items tight up against the walls in your house, the air will become moist and trapped behind. This will then cause condensation and strong mould growth to occur. Keep a small gap behind every item if you have it near a wall – this goes for the floor too. If you have a bed or unit which is not on a stand, the air will become trapped underneath and cause mould growth here too.


5.      Drying clothes indoors? When you use a tumble dryer, the water which is produced is collected into a section where it can be disposed of down the sink. However, if you are drying your clothes in your property on radiators or clothes horses etc. all of this moisture is evaporating into the room, causing high moisture!


6.        If your house becomes too hot, or you keep certain sections of the property closed off, the air will not be able to ventilate. Keep some windows open slightly throughout your property to help move the air, preventing moisture build-up which will cause condensation and mould to grow

PREVENTING WOOD ROT & PESTS

 Accounting for roughly 70% of reported damp problems in domestic dwellings, condensation can also contribute to wood boring insect infestations and fungal decay outbreaks.

Condensation can often be attributed to poor balance between heating and ventilation. This results in a rise in relative humidity.

Warm air can hold more water vapour than cold. When warm air cools, it deposits the water that it can no longer retain as condensation on a cold surface. This can occur when the heating is switched off at night. Breathing onto a mirror or other cool surface yields a similar effect.

A family of 4 can produce up to 16 pints of water vapour every day, which can result from the use of tumble dryers, the act of drying wet clothes on radiators, showers and bath use, cooking and even normal respiration.
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