Kitchen steam/condensation extraction - what do you use?

[evrybuddy]

We rely on an open window at the moment and to be blunt, it doesn't work very well, unless you open it all the way and freeze out the house.

It's a mix of cooking steam, hot air vapour, water from washing machine, washing up etc etc...

Windows flow with condensation - it's Carribbean levels of humidity.

What's the best way to get rid of it?

Cooker hood extractor?

Separate wall or ceiling extractor fan?

Combination of these or an alternative?

Thanks everyone normal for all the good info.

Usually, I try to resist the anger baiters but this one's too much of a prize -

*QUOTE - from specialsubject

ok. use some wisdom and stop wrecking your house by draping soggy clothes everywhere. You can change that.

you've been repeatedly told that is the source of your problem.

bye.*

Read the question I asked in the OP - it asks what to do about condensation - not what causes it.

If you took a break from being a pedantic, throwback nitwit, and spent less time looking for details you can fact-check in your twerpy geeky twatface machine - you might have seen that I listed the things I did that caused the condensation.

The question was, what to do, to most efficiently remove the condensation that I acknowledged I was causing - and a sensible answer to that - you clearly don't have.

You could have saved me, and you, the bother, by not participating in this thread.

But I guess that doesn't fit with your personality type.

If I have fucked you off with my reply - good!

Do reply again if you wish to try and fuck me off further but you will be whistling into the ether as I won't be reading anymore - but it will amuse me to think of you simmering.

"What's the best way to get rid of it?"

There isn't an adequate way to get rid of level of condensation you are describing, you need to resolve the cause of it. Refer to invaluable advice already given.

I have just had a thought though - I hope you don't have a carbon monoxide leak from a gas boiler or fire as that massively increases the condensation issue!

Oh Random you are on the ball. I never thought of that.

There is however an opportunity here to try and invent a way to conduct several cubic metres of water from the OP's windows.

May I suggest a team of tiny gerbils carrying buckets and sliding down ropes. Or a capillary system whereby it is all diverted into the sink, ready to be used for washing up?

Ideas on a postcard to BBC Broadcasting House, London W12 8QT.

You could use some of those sponge strips. You might need to wring them out every five minutes though

Or build a tiny bonsai rainforest underneath the window.

(Has anyone else never seen PigletJohn use an emoticon before?)

I know Anastasie, never thought I'd see the day