Winter info-sheet: Keeping condensation down in the home.
Preventing condensation and mould in your home this winter can be helped by these easy items:
- Cook with lids on saucepans and turn the heat down once the water has boiled.
- Slightly open your kitchen window when you are cooking or washing up and if you have one, use your cooker extractor fan.
- When filling a bath, run the cold water first then add the hot – it will reduce steam by 90%.
- Slightly open your bathroom window after having a bath or shower and
- Ventilation removes moist air from your home and replaces it with drier air from outside. Try opening interior doors as well as an upstairs and downstairs window for 30 minutes a day to cross-ventilate your home.
- Hang your clothes outside to dry or in a bathroom with the door closed and a window slightly open – don’t be tempted to put clothes on radiators to dry
- Keep a small gap between large pieces of furniture and the walls.
- ·Try to keep temperatures in all rooms above 15°C by keeping the heating on at low-to-medium levels all day in cold weather, but remember to keep a check on your meters to see how much it is costing you. Therefore it is best to maintain a low-to-medium level of heat throughout the house.
