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We are in muggy hot coastal South Carolina, in a kit house that is elevated approx 10ft on cinder block pilings. Our "garage" stairwell is screened at ground level then the stairs lead up a ...
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In March, I moved into a new apartment, part of which could be considered subterranean. It's a basement apartment except that due to the property, only part of it is "sub". For example, my ...
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I installed a 14,000btu dual hose portable air conditioner by Midea inside my house. In A/C mode and/or dry mode, Midea drops the temperature in the house HOWEVER it also INCREASES the humidity to a ...
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I need your advice to determine if some remodeling that was done at my property is causing mold to appear. I recently renovated a 50 year-old house that is located in humid, saltpeter-prone land. The ...
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I just had open-cell foam insulation installed in the walls of my garage. Before drywalling, should I install a plastic vapor barrier on the external walls of the garage? Those walls have 1" foam ...
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I live in Canada in a recently renovated house with tight building envelope. I've noticed in cold weather, roughly -15C (5F) or below, the front door latch (will sometimes get stuck in the open ...
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I have a one floor 100 square meter house near trabzon, Türkiye (close to Çarşıbaşı, in a mountainous village near the sea) that is vacant from September to December and February to june. Just this ...
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I have a couple racks of server equipment that generate a fair amount of heat, so I basically need cooling year-round. I'm in a building that has 2-pipe HVAC, i.e. central A/C during the summer and ...
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This is a small crawl space of less than 100 ft^2, and about half of the dirt floor is covered in a plastic sheet. I'm not sure whether the plastic sheet helps or not. The crawlspace has a very low ...
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I just moved into a rent house that was built in 2020. There are a few signs of the builders rushing to finish, but one I don’t know how to solve is that the right corner of the door seems to be bent ...
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Hey first off thanks for helping with advice l've never owned a home with a crawlspace before this July. Little background, home is worth $110,000 paid market value. It's not a forever home so l'm ...
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My 2-story home, 5000 sq ft, was built in 2000. The upstairs AC constantly runs and the humidity is around 65%. AC is 6 years old and it gets regular maintenance every quarter. The return vent is in ...
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We have a dirt crawl space, we have placed vents on one side of house and an crawl space vent fan on the other to try and lower humidity, my kitchen cabinets are swelling and have mold, I have ...
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I am in the UK. My garage is attached to my house and was at one point in time stables or similar, it is a split building with two levels, the main workshop and the attic/roof space above. One wall of ...
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I currently have two issues in my house that I am wondering how to address, and was thinking that I could solve both with a similar solution. I recently bought a house that had insufficient bathroom ...
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We live in Portland, OR (read moist winters but fairly dry summers). It is peak summer right now, amid a heat wave with 100F high. We have Indoor Humidity ~48-50%. Outdoor humidity ~30% We have two ...
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https://imgur.com/a/EQEQnQq Hi all, I’m moving into this historic house and see this around the ac unit. I don’t notice mold anywhere else. Does possible mold around the ac indicate a mold problem in ...
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I have an unfinished Basement that smells damp so I put in a humidity meter last summer and it was reading around 80% which is known to cause mold. I'm not seeing the mold but I put in this ...
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Does humid air affect a fluorescent tube starting?
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I changed the media when the humidistat said to change it. I turned off the humidistat, removed the old media, put new media in, and turned on the humidistat. I noticed that the "on" light ...
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Today my TP Link Kasa smart switch started acting strange (turning on and off randomly) - it is broken now. When I hit reset button, a few drops of water dropped out. I removed the plate, pulled the ...
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I have a cabin soon to be my house. Recently added on to it. I reinsulated the attic of the original house and insulated the addition. Both should be insulated to r40-r60. We turn the heat down during ...
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My humidifier is mounted in the return air duct and the humidistat is mounted in the same duct a few feet before the humidifier. I did two tests while the air handler was running and calling for heat: ...
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I have a chimney which covers the 4 burner gas hob but I don't have any space to keep my electric rice cooker. the electric rice cooker produces lots of steam which increases the humidity level at ...
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The receptacle is in hall and it rained straight for 3 days. I noticed this after 6 days since the rain started. It has developed some white thingy. What's this? the other day I noticed a lizard ...
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We had a humidity issue in our rental flat last winter - every morning all the windows were wet, and we had mold in the corners and behind the couch. (Despite venting 3+ times a day for 10+ minutes - ...
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After living in the German-speaking world and becoming accustom to having a Trockenraum, which can be thought as a dedicated room of a building for line-drying laundry indoors backed by a blowing ...
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When you see the exterior of the window it looks quite spoiled due to hot son and humidity and moisture during rainy season. But interior of the window looks quite new. This window wood was properly ...
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I have a Frigidaire 70 Pint Capacity Dehumidifier that I'm considering putting down in my crawl space as a temporary solution. Back story: Our house is only a 1.5 years old but the crawl space is very ...
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The subfloor on the main level of my townhouse has several very small isolated wet spots. There is a crawl space underneath, and I thought high humidity in the crawl space was the culprit, but I no ...
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Inevitably I'll have to replace my heat pump, and when that time comes I'd like to have the calculations on the size of the replacement to account for dehumidifying in addition to heating and cooling. ...
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There is a portion of drywall to the side of a window in my bedroom (4' W x 5' H) that was saturated with moisture (my pinless moisture meter calibrated for drywall would read 100%). Not sure when the ...
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At night during the summer, we run the kids room mini split with the door closed, and I've noticed the humidity gets really high (measured at > 70%). This surprised me, as I assumed the AC would be ...
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The outside humidity is 96%. The attic humidity is at 60%. When the attic fans turn on, the humidity in the attic begins to increase. Is this normal? The attic insulation is batts, not blown-in. ...
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My attic is finished and has central air, but has a 2nd room that is unfinished with no duct work. We use it for storage. Currently it gets very hot and humid in that room in the summer, to the point ...
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Small bathroom Has a small left to right sliding window which we open and also have a fan in to try and blow out the humidity We currently have a small dehumidifier that does a cup/day in there as ...
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I moved to a new apartment unit in the beginning of the year and then I went away for a 2 week trip and when I came back I noticed greenish dust on the the furniture. I google it and found out that it ...
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The property manager sent out a handyperson, who spent about 10 minutes on shower mold, basically just painting over it. Now several months later the mold is showing through again. What can be done ...
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I read so many contradicting things online: Some recommend dehumidiers (if so, which?), some advice against. Some recommend fans (which, how many, how/where to install?), some advice against. Some ...
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I had an Aprilaire AA700M humidifier installed on my gas furnace last year. Everything worked fine from what I could tell. Fast forward to this winter, and the humidifier isn't keeping up with the ...
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During the winter I often do not run the bathroom fan during/after a shower, figuring the house can use the additional humidity. Of course that means waiting for the water vapor to diffuse out of this ...
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I'm trying to keep the moisture content fairly low in my house. I have a humidity sensor in the house. Right now it is showing a temperature of 17C and a humidity (RH) of 62%. I also have a humidity ...
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Recently bought a new Comfee Dehumidifier MDDF-16DEN7 WF and turned it on in a relatively small bedroom. Even though it dropped the humidity from average of 90 to 60, it left a weird smell in the air ...
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The window in our small bathroom has been blocked off with foam because it carried sound from neighboring kitchens to our bathroom (and sounds from our bathroom to their kitchen). Obviously humidity ...
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Houses, mainly built with bricks, in my hometown tend to get a lot of humidity. In some old houses, it makes bubbles in the paint and causes paint peeling. Here are some of the pictures of places ...
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We are converting a small building on our property to a mother in law suite. The concrete has a vapor barrier underneath of it according to my brother who saw it when jack hammering to install the ...
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I recently noticed several places where my house seems to be breaking in two. Some baseboards seem to be detaching and the cabinets kind of falling. The building is from the 70s and the house was ...
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I have noticed that it is humid in my basement. I ventilate regularly but it is still damp. I bought a dehumidifier and put it into operation. After less than 24 hours, the 2 liter tank was already 2 ...
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I own an apartment with a Daikin heat pump system that provides me both with heating/cooling and hot water. The system has both in-floor heating and 4 fan coils hooked up to it, and these are on 2 ...
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I have some expensive antique furniture stored in my cellar. The cellar came with an air con in it (believe it or not). We added a fan that will blow air OUTSIDE, and a dehumidifier. This is to make ...
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