By "badly affected by condensation" I meant that there's a lot of water on the inside pane of the windows. Not within the unit, but on the surface facing into the room, so the unit hasn't broken down. I haven't noted any damage to the surrounding area....yet.
As stated elsewhere, we've only been here three months so I've no idea whether the previous owners experienced the same issue. Maybe they did but didn't notice it; we simply don't know. Having had extensive problems with condensation in our last, solid-walled Victorian house, I was looking forward to being without it in a more modern property and thus was disappointed to find the windows streaming with water on the first cold evening we've had this autumn. We do intend to get these fairly old windows replaced and to that end, I've asked a fitter who has worked for us before to give us a quote. At least if we do continue to experience condensation, even with new windows and some changes of lifestyle in accordance with the advice given above, we'll know that its divine intervention, punishment for sin in a previous life, rather than something we're doing wrong in this one.
I'll make enquiries about CWI; I'm 60 next year so maybe if its still available for free in certain circumstances we'll touch lucky. If not, then we'll have to put notices around the place reminding us that breathing is a luxury, not a right.
The loft is a slightly different issue. Its been boarded out, and the insulation below that boarding is pretty thin, to be honest. Presumably to compensate for this, they've insulated the inside of the roof slope itself, something which was commented on by our surveyor as being inadequate when he did a full structural survey back in March. So maybe something else for the future, though for now we need that space to accommodate the legion of boxes generated by downsizing overspill and cannot even consider removing the boarding and building up the joists, just yet.
As stated elsewhere, we've only been here three months so I've no idea whether the previous owners experienced the same issue. Maybe they did but didn't notice it; we simply don't know. Having had extensive problems with condensation in our last, solid-walled Victorian house, I was looking forward to being without it in a more modern property and thus was disappointed to find the windows streaming with water on the first cold evening we've had this autumn. We do intend to get these fairly old windows replaced and to that end, I've asked a fitter who has worked for us before to give us a quote. At least if we do continue to experience condensation, even with new windows and some changes of lifestyle in accordance with the advice given above, we'll know that its divine intervention, punishment for sin in a previous life, rather than something we're doing wrong in this one.
I'll make enquiries about CWI; I'm 60 next year so maybe if its still available for free in certain circumstances we'll touch lucky. If not, then we'll have to put notices around the place reminding us that breathing is a luxury, not a right.
The loft is a slightly different issue. Its been boarded out, and the insulation below that boarding is pretty thin, to be honest. Presumably to compensate for this, they've insulated the inside of the roof slope itself, something which was commented on by our surveyor as being inadequate when he did a full structural survey back in March. So maybe something else for the future, though for now we need that space to accommodate the legion of boxes generated by downsizing overspill and cannot even consider removing the boarding and building up the joists, just yet.