Legurit
2016-03-21 08:37:35
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Hello everyone,
I wanted to report on how things are going with the drying out of the house.
We had the feeling that we had already ventilated a lot of moisture out during the construction (we were a bit fanatical about airing it out – gladly even again at 11 p.m.); that it was probably far from everything, we had to realize now when we emptied the storage room under the stairs. In the corner lay a wooden mirror that had very exemplary "soaked up" water (exemplary because it didn’t start to rot or mold, but was just very damp). When the room under the stairs was then empty, we walked into the room and had to realize that it was already a bit cooler but above all also felt quite humid. Now it is open, empty, and will be ventilated for the time being. No mold has formed, but I could imagine that with parquet and gypsum plaster it might have looked different.
Otherwise, we measure the humidity in the bedroom, which during the day always drops to about ~49% and then rises again at night to 55% – although I don’t know if that is due to residual moisture or the occupants. (We always set the ventilation system to a lower level at night.)
Another moisture problem we had was with the bathroom exhaust in the upper floor.. but that was also not very well thought out and has little to do with construction moisture – but maybe it helps someone who is planning similarly. Our bathroom exhaust pipe goes through the unheated attic, makes a bend, and then has a pipe divider – one leading upward outside and one downward into a "condensate trap." The only problem was that it was quickly full due to the freezing temperatures and then the water dripped back down the pipe – onto the closing cover of the exhaust unit. Since it was closed, it also pressed a bit against the gypsum board... and that then of course swelled a bit and caused the paint to peel off. This will of course be fixed; the condensate trap was emptied and the pipe is now thickly insulated up to the roof outlet. Hopefully it works better now.
I wanted to report on how things are going with the drying out of the house.
We had the feeling that we had already ventilated a lot of moisture out during the construction (we were a bit fanatical about airing it out – gladly even again at 11 p.m.); that it was probably far from everything, we had to realize now when we emptied the storage room under the stairs. In the corner lay a wooden mirror that had very exemplary "soaked up" water (exemplary because it didn’t start to rot or mold, but was just very damp). When the room under the stairs was then empty, we walked into the room and had to realize that it was already a bit cooler but above all also felt quite humid. Now it is open, empty, and will be ventilated for the time being. No mold has formed, but I could imagine that with parquet and gypsum plaster it might have looked different.
Otherwise, we measure the humidity in the bedroom, which during the day always drops to about ~49% and then rises again at night to 55% – although I don’t know if that is due to residual moisture or the occupants. (We always set the ventilation system to a lower level at night.)
Another moisture problem we had was with the bathroom exhaust in the upper floor.. but that was also not very well thought out and has little to do with construction moisture – but maybe it helps someone who is planning similarly. Our bathroom exhaust pipe goes through the unheated attic, makes a bend, and then has a pipe divider – one leading upward outside and one downward into a "condensate trap." The only problem was that it was quickly full due to the freezing temperatures and then the water dripped back down the pipe – onto the closing cover of the exhaust unit. Since it was closed, it also pressed a bit against the gypsum board... and that then of course swelled a bit and caused the paint to peel off. This will of course be fixed; the condensate trap was emptied and the pipe is now thickly insulated up to the roof outlet. Hopefully it works better now.