What is the cause of the condensation?
In the mid 1970’s to the present builders have built new homes to be energy efficient. To achieve this efficiency builders used better windows and doors and sealing up the structure to stop any air leakage. This did decrease the heating costs, but sealing up the structure without considering the need for combustion or ventilation air caused a host of new problems. Symptoms of a too tight house are condensation on the windows, smoke escaping from the fireplace or wood stove, mould or mildew , residual cooking or smoking odours and a general stale smell in the home. Since the common thread among the problems is a tight house, it makes sense that if it is engineered to be less tight then the problems will disappear. It seams ironic that a house that has been made tight to save energy should now be loosened up , but that is exactly what is needed to maintain a healthy environment. Years ago houses were not built as tightly and these problems did not exist. THE SOLUTION With the installatio
