To ask how to remove window condensation

[crochetmonkey74]

Morning
I have condensation inside my windows on cold mornings. Currently I'm opening windows to get rid but a friend mentioned a vacuum thing you can get. They are fairly expensive so what do you guys do? I was thinking of a chamois block?

I used to use a window vac which was amazing for the task and I highly recommend as you won’t believe how much water comes off. However I then installed a PIV unit and now I don’t get condensation any more.

i did @StarlightLady i tried to show my reaction as humour
but it was my error actually because i had just read an article and condensation in a car! and assumed this was the same thing.

Karcher vac is great. But also, if you can open your window wide enough you can use a shower/window blade and blade it off and let it go outside.

That is what I wanted to ask. Same task, same result surely. Years ago when I lived in a flat, the window used to stream every morning. Now in a house, there is no condensation. It is not surprising that flats get damp.

Just wipe them with a cloth, although I don't even bother to do that any more and just keep my windows open. Condensation on windows in winter is a fact of life where I live and I don't know anyone with a window vac.

I can think of far more interesting things to spend my money on!

But if you use a microfibre cloth your windows will also be gleaming. I can clean all the windows in my house, in about 40 minutes, with several microfibre cloths. the trick is to make sure you then dry and polish with a dry one.

Well first of all unless you dry the cloth outside, the moisture remains in your property. Secondly I have floor to ceiling Victorian sash windows. They would take several cloths and a step ladder. I don't have time for that in the morning so I invested in the Karcher with extension pole. I'm not a huge fan of gadgets but this is a game changer.

I've got a karcher thing somewhere, I don't bother with it now. The best immediate solution is a good window squibber blade (oxo make good ones), dry between swipes, dry the excess that's been dripped onto the floor/windowsill & wipe around the edges of the frame where there's still moisture. I found the karcher left wet bits round the edges etc so didn't really save any time.

But I'd highly recommended looking at a dessicant dehumidifier if it's a real issue. Meaco make good ones.

Leaving the heating on low all the time stopped this happening for me. I didn't notice it being overy expensive because the system is always just topping itself up rather than using loads of energy to heat it from stone cold.

Also: ventilation ventilation ventilation. Every single day.

I get this in the bedroom as we still have original sash and case windows. I used to wipe with a microfibre cloth every morning which took ages due to having 36 individual small panes to wipe. Last year I bought a window vacuum, so much quicker and easier to do. Wish I’d done it years ago.

Some people on this thread really don't understand how much condensation collects on single glazed, huge old windows - a cloth doesn't cut it for a pint of water on one single pane of a bay!

We're another Kärcher window vac household and life would be far more tedious, time consuming and soggy without the two we have. In the worst of the winter months, we need both as one will sometimes run out of charge before finishing all the windows.

Our older one is about 12 and still going strong though we've occasionally had to buy spare parts for both of them.

I’ve got this too! It was not expensive, is rechargeable and I use it all year when cleaning the windows and glass panels in the bathroom.

I've just bought a refurbished Karcher for £30, worth looking at. I soaked a full towel wiping them down a few days ago which is pointless as I have to hang the towel indoors to dry.

Windows open is the other way to help.

Squeegee and a towel here is the quickest way.

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We used to get condensation really badly. We bought a Karcher window vacuum after seeing a post like this on mn 5 years ago and we’re still using it so it’s worth the cost.
We now have a big meaco dehumidifier which we’ll be bringing out today as the condensation has appeared this morning. The dehumidifier is 2 years old and pretty good at ensuring there’s nothing on the window most nights but sometimes we still get some and just use the vacuum and leave windows open in the morning after showering. The dehumidifier also dries clothes which is another advantage.

Those with window vacs @Tiree1965th@KaarijasBowlCut , can they be used horizontally?! I see in the demos that they are used vertically down a large pane. 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...

Yes, you can use them horizontally but you would have to empty them more often than if using vertically.

There are different tanks in the different ages of window vac. Our older one has a little rubber stopper to pull out and pour water away but the newer one has a removable tank which holds a lot more - you can use this type on its side for longer before it starts spraying out water.

Can you use window vacs on doors with lots of little bobbly panes of glass? Or do they only work on flat panes of glass?

Eeek - I've done it, ordered ax Kaarcher! Fed up of mopping down by hand!

No not really. The glass needs to be flat to create the vacuum.

We bought our window vac for the bathroom. The fan is not above the shower so not very effective. I use the vac on the shower screens, they don’t leave smears like kitchen roll does.

Kitchen roll does the job. Possibly less wasteful and better for the environment than spending money on a manufactured plastic window vac. Or cut up old tea towels / towels and use them, just chuck them in the wash afterwards (with another full load).

I use a sponge cloth, wringing it out into a bowl as I go along. Cleans the windows nicely too.

window vac
yes a cloth can do it but drips everywhere wringing it out washing and drying cloth

window vac takes seconds no mess or hassle

you can get refurbished one direct from karcher about £24

Use a towel. Unfortunately the only thing that stops ours is sticking the heating on!