What are the humidity levels in your property?

[MH0084]

Heya,
I just was just wondering if it was only me struggling with high humidity levels. My property (ground floor maisonette) has a running humidity level of 65% on average. I keep the patio doors open and bedroom windows during the day. I also run the dehumidifiers in the evening for a few hours in order to manage it and lower it 55%.

So far, it has been working. I don't have any mould problems.

A whole-house ventilation system, unfortunately, is out of question as I wouldn't have where to place the external unit.

Would love to hear your experience.

I mean you shouldn't need dehumidifiers in summer. Or at least I don't.

Keeping the windows open, in summer that's swings and roundabouts. For example for the past few days my house has been 60% but outside it has been 80% (similar temperatures).

What you should be doing is managing the humidity by not putting huge amounts of water into the atmosphere of the house.

So no drying clothes inside, no boiling pans (or if you do use extraction over the cooker) and use extraction to pull out any excess bathroom humidity. In the winter I put some effort into not filling the house with water vapour. In summer I don't really care.

Exctraction is the cheapest way of dumping excess humidity. Running dehumidifiers can be quite expensive on electricity.

Thanks! Yes, indeed it's very humid these days post rains. I do all the above! Albeit I suspect the kitchen exhauster fan is not working as it should. I don't know what else to do. But yeah, my electricity bill is eye watering.

Go to war on humidity.

Getting your kitchen extraction working is probably cheaper in the long run than running dehumidifiers.

There are additional steps you can take, for example if you have a shower always squeegy down the shower afterwards and push as much of the water down the plughole as possible. This keeps the shower a lot cleaner and lowers the amount of water spread out over surfaces that can evaporate into the house.