Dose anyone have a answer to damp in the bathroom :BangHead:we are sick of it we tile all the wall put in a damp extractor,have a sml,radiator and electric fan and a few months ago our son put in a lg electric wall heater ,we get mould on the ceiling ,the grout, the plastic ,of the double glazed window we keep the window open all the time ,the cistern is wet all the time .HELP!
if its the cistern on a toilet you will get water on the outside because of the temp difference between the air and the water in the cistern, not a lot you do about that.
Forgive me but my daughters are always complaining on damp and swear on their mother's life that windows are open all the while. :BangHead: You have to heat AND ventilate. Perhaps your window is too small. Do you have the toilet in the same room - if so this could exacerbate the problem as there is water vapour constantly in the room and hitting cold walls. Don't think those little extractor fans work too well when there is a lot of water vapour in the air. I advise my daughters to wash off the mould with no bleach in water and to rinse with neat vinegar. Hope this helps.
I have a large tray (one of those foil roasting tins) underneath my cistern in the toilet to collect the condensation
Do they always fill the bath with 3-4 inches of cold water before running hotwater? If you start off with hot you get more steam in the bathroom. Now tell me they only take showers which I believe produce more steam then baths. My bathroom has the special emulsion for bathrooms. Don't know if it would help.
Mould likes alkaline conditions. So in the end the more you use cleaning produces especially containing bleach the more mould you get. As Lottie Lou says vinegar can help enormously. Remove the mould, rinse off the cleaners and then spray with vinegar and allow to dry. 99p shops used to sell it in handy sprays. The smell of fish and chips shops does not last long. If you have soft water the problems will be worse.
Salt is a good mould deterrent as well but it upsets the paint more.
Tried the special emulsion and not noticed much difference. :BangHead:
Its the same with socks if you have problems with smelly feet just put salt and/or vinegar in the rinsing water.
Thanks all, with the damp answers I'll have ago with the vinegar it's sound very good.hope you all have a Merry Xmas
and Happy New Year :wave:
AS well as wiping the shower tiles with vinegar I also pour it down and around the loo to get rid of the limescale. Ditto with shower head. And I leave the Velux wide after a shower for several hours because I usually forget about it until after lunch by which time the room is freezing but dry....
I've a large towel rail which keeps it warm after that and towels hang by loops so it isn't always covered with wet towels adding to the damp.
If your b'room faces north and doesn't get any sun then it'll be much harder to ventilate and keep warm.
Are your ceiling and walls insulated because if not then their cold surfaces will encourage condensation.
Try leaving the door and window open after shower/bath so there is a through flow of air.