Do many people have hygrometers at home? Thought I was quite posh having a digital in,/out thermometer! There are a lot of plants in our conservatory come October, including a 2mt Sparmania,so we have a dehumidifier going at night.When I went to bed at 11,it was 14c outside,19c indoors, although we have a 2.5 tog duvet. on the bed,in hardly under it,last night no exception. Without the window open,I feel like I can't breathe. I get so hot,my old man says it's like living with a slug (I believe they're wet and slimey, NOT hot)
Do many people have hygrometers at home? Thought I was quite posh having a digital in,/out thermometer! There are a lot of plants in our conservatory come October, including a 2mt Sparmania,so we have a dehumidifier going at night.When I went to bed at 11,it was 14c outside,19c indoors, although we have a 2.5 tog duvet. on the bed,in hardly under it,last night no exception. Without the window open,I feel like I can't breathe. I get so hot,my old man says it's like living with a slug (I believe they're wet and slimey, NOT hot)
Haha! That’s an image and a half. I’m picturing a big slug under a duvet….possibly reading a book!
Looking online it seems people are quite obsessed with humidity and measuring it indoors.
I don’t think it’s posh. Mine cost me a tenner and links to my phone.
The sun has come out,but conservatory and probe in shade, conservatory 30.1 it's been closed up just walked the dogs,AND we have kookaburra roof blinds
We are meant to be the mildest area in the UK I have scented pelargoniums in my (south facing front) in pots they have been there about 8 years. We moved here December 2011 it was snowing,but a house in the next road had red pelargoniums immaculate in matching terracotta pots all out in flower
Yes, it's easy to become obsessed with gadgets but we have a long standing problem with mould in our block of houses. When I had Italian lodgers they crammed their rooms to the ceiling with there stuff, felt freezing all through the summers and never opened the windows. When they left, two of the walls were covered in mould, though we couldn't see it as they had so much junk. (I also couldn't clean the rooms as you couldn't see the floor).
I have lung problems so really don't want to live with more mould spores than I can help. I don't want mouldy carpets in the loft. Plus I think of myself as a steward of the house, rather than the owner. I hope it will be here for more hundreds of years, in good nick or better than when I bought it.
I got my humidity meter for a tenner off Ebay too. I certainly had no idea how much humidity levels change throughout the day and not in the places I expected.
Yes @Fire I also see myself as the custodian of the house. Especially as we’re only gonna be here for a few years and I’m loving taking care of it and putting things right from the previous “owners” or “temporary carers” of the building.
We found mildew in corners and cupboards. We’ve knocked out a few of the cupboards and opened up the rooms more.
Interestingly I put the heating on earlier and the humidity stayed the same.
I opened the french doors and windows after cleaning the kitchen floor and the humidity went down by 9% in about half an hour even though outside is supposedly 89%.
I’m gonna have to look into the physics of it all.
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