With condensation a regular problem during the cold winter months, preventing black mould and other damage to your home can prove difficult. Soaring energy costs have exacerbated the problem, with many struggling to sufficiently heat their homes.
Condensation occurs when moisture in the air turns to liquid on your window as it hits the cold glass, so warming your room up can prevent this stark temperature change. However, with most people priced out of leaving the heating on for lengthy periods, people have been looking for other ways to deal with condensation, which often leads to mould.
The Mirror reports that one woman has shared her top tip to keep your home warmer and banish condensation with a “magic” product that costs just £3.50. Taking to TikTok with her affordable hack, user @clairedouglasstyling showed a simple way to reduce condensation.
She used a cheap window insulation kit on her windows and posted the results. In her video she lists the good points she found about using the window insulation, writing: "Room felt warmer, less heat loss = saving on bills, no condensation on windows, cheap, easy to fit, can open window."
Claire shows the product with the packaging which looks to be a plastic sheet to cover over the window. She then cuts to a clip of her windows which look clean and clear, with nothing to indicate there was anything on them.
In a previous video she showed herself putting the sheet up which she taped around her window and cut to size. She then uses a hair dryer to heat up the product so it shapes better to the window, giving a less obvious look.
She wrote: "Sounds too good to be true" as she pushed against the now taut plastic protecting her window. Each criteria was bullet pointed and ticked off after her test, showing that it worked for her home.
Claire added in the caption: "As air temp decreases the volume of moisture it can hold decreases (a room at 20c can hold twice the amount of water vapour that a room at 10c can). When the warmer air hits a cold surface it causes condensation.
"Therefore, these kits will help increase the room temp marginally (by reducing heat loss through inefficient windows) and stop the windows attracting condensation but won't eliminate air moisture if your house is poorly heated and/or ventilated - so if you suffer with very bad condensation due to the heating being off a lot use with a dehumidifier if you can.
"In short, these are fantastic value at £3.50 and will deffo help but won't fix all your problems on their own."
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