To ask how to remove window condensation

Happy days, @LostAtTheCrossRoad ! 😄👏

Days like today with the sun blazing in (for many of us) open those windows!

Even if it feels chilly, the air will feel warmer, in the evening, for being drier.

If the weather is rubbish, then is the time t just ventilate when you're actively wetting the air and then snuggle in with the dehumidifier on.

Treat it the same as thinking about whether your washing would dry outside. The answer isn't the same in all weathers.

I wish there was a better way to solve this. I'm meant to both air the house out well, but somehow keep it warm. Open windows to let the moisture out, but use dehumidifier with the windows shut... The condensation is one thing, but I've already noticed spots of mould on my walls, not sure what else I can do to prevent this other than the juggling of the above?

Make sure the trickle vents are open, use the venting in bathrooms, don't bath or shower late at night, I just use a microfibre cloth but I don't get masses as windows new double glazed - surprised i get any to be honest

^ wiping (not quoting)

A towel for quoting is not the best solution would have to be dried either indoors or in a tumble drier which can cause more condensation. Clothes are coming off damp on the line.

Moisture absorbers (little box things next to windows), dehumidifiers (bit expensive) and the vacuum type thing helps.

Every. Sodding. Time.

The good news is that with your Karcher window vac it will be no problem 😁

Dammit, the answer to everything is always more cleaning, isn't it?

Another vote for the window vac. Two pluses, DH loves it, so he does them ( not me) and the windows don’t need much cleaning inside during the winter, as it leaves them smear free.

Advise cleaning the window to stop the streaks - give the blade a wipe too.

They're less wasteful than using heaps of kitchen roll for months on end.

Not that expensive either, I bought mine 7 years ago for about £100 and it's more than paid for itself.

They're excellent for actually cleaning interior glass as well. My kids leave the windows minging and they need a scrub with soapy water to get them clean.

Never close my bedroom window, can't sleep in a stuffy room. Still get condensation on it.

We have a decent dehumidifier, we also have 40+ year old aluminium framed double glazing, some of the windows the seals have gone as well.

We bought a fairly cheap window vac last year and it definitely made a difference - I'd also run it over the tiles in the bathroom after a shower. Easily removed a couple of mugs worth of water a day.

Window vac people, how do you stop the drag marks they leave behind? I can't work out whether I'm pressing on too hard or not hard enough. Or whether my windows aren't clean enough.

The cloth will stay wet - either you wash it or it will release moisture back into the air. So uses energy/money.

Paper towels cost money, and when wet need to not be left in the house.

Window vac collects water and then you pour it down the sink, removing the moisture from the environment.

Just open the windows a smidge for 30 mins - no cost and you get the added benefit of letting the farts out

I got my karcher for Xmas one year (thank you mum) and I love it.
30 seconds in a morning to run over my very very wet window.
I got nearly half a tank of mucky water this morning.

The Karcher is good on larger paned Victorian windows but a pain in the bum on Georgian windows made up of tiny multi panes, ime. Even with the smaller head. TBH, as beautiful as they are, Georgian windows are a PITA full stop!

The vacuum is way better than a cloth. My old windows used to be soaking with condensation- crap double glazing, eventually had to change them.

After 2 winters trying to dry with cloths we bought a dehumidifier from a friend who was emigrating and a window vac.

Condensation occurs when the room is too cold to hold the water in the air so it condenses on cold surfaces. We used the dehumidifier in the evenings and into the night if we could stand the noise then window vac'd the following morning

If feasible look into improve the insulation in the house. If it stays warmer the air will hold more moisture without it condensing.

Some houses are definitely more prone to it than others. Our first house was awful (1930s) our 2nd and 3rd houses have been much better and we haven't needed to run the dehumidifier nearly as often. Both houses are 70s houses so not build to be warmed by coal like our first house!

@crochetmonkey74 Lidl has an own-brand version of the window vac in stock at the mo (in our Lidl anyway), £19.99. We've had a Lidl one for a couple of years and it's great.

Congrats Lost. Welcome to the club 😂

I even use mine on my car windows in the winter.

@Tiree1965 @SpacePotato @KaarijasBowlCut and everyone with a window vac - I AM CONVERTED!!! Totally, utterly and forever more! I worship the altar of window vaccing! It doesn't take any less time in the actual window I think, but my god the lack of mess and tidying and ringing out and drying cloths off afterwards. Dear lord it's worth every penny. Taken off approx 100mls of water from just four standard bedroom panes this morning. Have another two to do when the grumpy teen surfaces. There's an art to getting the angle and speed right I think, but I'm all in now! Makes me weep the amount of water going in to the walls and air every day over the years!

@LostAtTheCrossRoad i can use mine both horizontally and vertically. I have a Bosch as the size of the window attachment was more suited to the smaller panes in my sash and case windows.

We have a series of barred Georgian style windows that would fit a standard width vacuum head if it were turned 90° and pulled along horizontally, but not if they can only be used vertically

I know you've already now ordered one but you can get a narrower head attachment. I find I'd much easier on the side panes and tops of my bay windows.

When I bought my first one about 8 years ago I paid a little more to get the extras. You can order them separately if yours doesn't come with one.

There's no way it's more efficient and environmentally friendly to use the tonne of kitchen roll we'd need to mop it all up over the next 5 months and if we used towels they'd have to be washed, then tumble dried.

Window vac takes minutes. Also use it to wash windows and get rid of the extra bathroom condensation on the tiles etc.
I've even quickly cleaned liquid spills on hard floors with it.

Worth every penny to me. As was my meaco dehumidifier. Only a 'waste' if it doesn't get used. To me it's as much of a necessity as the vacuum cleaner.

Some people have coffee makers or ninja food processors. I could say those are a waste because I wouldn't use either. To others they are an essential.