Condensate in the cellar: now I know how to fight. saved supplies
Hello dear readers!
Today came for a visit and a friend complained that cellar again flowed! This happens in her every winter. As a result - the rampant mold. Rots half of root crops, the banks covered smelly bloom and look of this whole picture is very unsightly.
And I remembered that my husband and I had the same problem when we bought the cottage (buried there). But found a way to get rid of the problem. More precisely, there are two.
Condensate formed where the outside faces the cold air and the warm (relatively) inside
The first thing we read articles 10 exactly on the construction sites on the Internet. And yet, as one, we advise: Insulate cellar ceiling obsheyte inside the foam. I have a lot of claims against the author of such a recommendation.
What changed? Nothing. Once the water began to accumulate beneath the foam and flow around the edges of our "warming". Humidity as she was, and remained.
Then our new neighbor (thanks, Ahmed!), By the way never builder told us our mistake. Insulate the ceiling inside makes no sense. Inside will continue to warm, and the outside - cold. If doing the insulation, the top of the cellar.
So we did: put the insulation (I do not know how to say, we sell it as "Goldberry") and more top boards. Same Ahmed suggested the next important step:
The most important factor influencing the absence or presence of condensate fatal - it is ventilated. If the air here and there will normally circulate, congratulations: the drops begin mysteriously evaporate themselves. And banks, bottles and Morkoshka intact opposing mold. Check whether the ventilation works in the cellar or the time to do something, it is easy.
Enough to set fire to a newspaper and see whether the smoke to go outside or stay inside to soar. Carrying out such a request, please be very careful - try not to be poisoned by fumes. Cellar, even with the condensate, is not worth it!
I'm glad - there was a carrot! And you how things are going with the condensate? If the article was interesting - please shlopnite to "Thumbs up!" Mersey.