WilderSueden
2023-11-05 20:03:34
- #1
Many do indeed. With the old windows, this isn’t yet a big problem, they provide continuous ventilation. In old buildings you quickly get cold feet, 20 degrees doesn’t feel like 20 degrees in a new building. So heating is usually turned up significantly higher. And then you slowly get to the point where you only have mold behind the cabinet and don’t see it. Here the OP replaced the windows and would now need to manually achieve x air changes per day. But he can’t, because almost no one can. With little wind, you’d have to keep the windows open far too long, in weather like today you don’t create any draft at all. The cold air from outside is unpleasant anyway. Ventilating after showering is nice and all, but actually you’d have to ventilate again an hour later to get rid of the residual moisture from towels and the shower. But most people are in the office then, and even if they work from home, hardly anyone does it. The walls from the late 60s and early 70s are also quite a disaster, energy was cheap and so was construction. So I’m not surprised that the previous owner already messed around with internal insulation there. Tearing it out was of course absolutely counterproductive and could only be topped by putting it back on oneself. Poorly done internal insulation molds very nicely between the insulation and the wall. The big question now is: should the cause be treated or just the symptom?Then all houses from the 60s would have to be molding away. Since this is not the case, there must (still) be other problems here.