Home DIY

Glad I found this thread;

This is probably an easily answered question. Me and Mrs. Spenceey are living in quite an old house which suffers from damp which is mainly (my guess) caused from us drying clothes in the house and the air bricks in the house barely seem to work.

Now what can we do in the upcoming months since It's going to be crap outside and clothes will probably get more wet out doors than inside? Is it worth buying a dehumidifier? Perhaps drying all our clothes in the kitchen and leaving the window open in there?

It doesn't seem to bother me too much to be honest but the mrs is getting annoyed about it and even out clothes are starting to smell damp - requiring another wash!

Had a similar problem at our house. The problem was more that we had mould growing on two corner walls - one bedroom one living room. Because we couldn't leave the window open all day (at work) we did two things. One was putting the heating on, but not all day just for 10 mins here and there on the timer - this kept the temp up. The other thing was to install a drying rack in the bathroom where we could leave the window open.

It worked for us. I did toy with a dehumidifier but tried this first and it worked.