Kompany Car
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Jesus mate that mold situation doesn't look great is that in a bathroom? If so you need to get a decent extractor fan fitted.I‘ve managed to dig out the double glazing paperwork. Bar the patio doors which were put in a couple of years ago, the rest of the double glazing was put in by CES windows. Dated 21/5/2012. Total price including VAT £4878.00.
There’s annoying plastic strips on the inside of the double glazing stuck on to the wooden window frames. Some of the sealant is loose and coming away around the window frames. There‘s small mold patches on some of the window frames.(which I’ll wipe off tomorrow) You can feel the draft around some of the window frames when it’s windy.
Pictures of some of the windows.
I think it’s time to replace the double glazing windows and doors, isn’t it?
Regarding solar panels. The front of the roof is north facing, the back of the roof is south facing. I pretty much get constant Sun/Sunlight when the Sun is out all day long from east to south across the right side and the back of the roof (and in my back garden), if you know what I mean?
Modern windows do have trickle vents which can help with condensation, personally im not a fan of them even though they are mandatory on new buildings as it all seems a bit counter intuitive to have a well sealed window and then put holes in it.
The new high k glass can also help, one of our ensuite bathrooms is cut into the eaves and before we replaced the velux roof window with a new unit, it had a problem with condensation even though it had an extractor. Now the only condensation we get is on the outside pane of glass in spring and autumn which shows its keeping the heat in.
As a general point damp air (for a physics point of view) has a higher specific heat capacity than dry air. This means to raise the temperature of the same volume of air by 1 degree you need to put in more energy if the air is full of moisture.
So solving the condensation issue will result in a warmer house for less energy used.