Your Questions Answered "But I dry my clothes in the dining room and the condensation and mould is in the bedroom"
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"But I dry my clothes in the dining room and the condensation and mould is in the bedroom"
Drying clothes inside on radiators etc. is probably one of the biggest contributors to condensation problems in properties. 
If you do practice this bad habit then which room you do it in makes very little difference to where in your property condensation may form as a consequence. Water vapour given off by the wet clothes whilst drying will very quickly distribute itself uniformally throughout a property so you might as well dry them in the bedroom - it makes little difference! Water vapour pressure will always seek to distribute itself uniformally and will therefore move from areas of higher vapour pressure to areas of lower vapour pressure, usually quite quickly.
Imagine you were lucky enough to be brought tea and toast in bed one morning and the kind person making the toast burnt it. Upstairs in bed you would know that they burnt the toast long before it arrived in your bedroom because you could smell it. Think what is happening to enable you to smell the burnt toast. Particles of burnt toast will have left the toaster, out of the kitchen, through the hall, up the stairs, into your bedroom and up your nose! And it's not just in your bedroom the burnt toast would be detectable either.
Water vapour is a gas and is able to move far more readily but the burnt toast story demonstrates just how quickly water vapour produced in one area will distribute itself throughout a property.
If you do practice this bad habit then which room you do it in makes very little difference to where in your property condensation may form as a consequence. Water vapour given off by the wet clothes whilst drying will very quickly distribute itself uniformally throughout a property so you might as well dry them in the bedroom - it makes little difference! Water vapour pressure will always seek to distribute itself uniformally and will therefore move from areas of higher vapour pressure to areas of lower vapour pressure, usually quite quickly.Imagine you were lucky enough to be brought tea and toast in bed one morning and the kind person making the toast burnt it. Upstairs in bed you would know that they burnt the toast long before it arrived in your bedroom because you could smell it. Think what is happening to enable you to smell the burnt toast. Particles of burnt toast will have left the toaster, out of the kitchen, through the hall, up the stairs, into your bedroom and up your nose! And it's not just in your bedroom the burnt toast would be detectable either.
Water vapour is a gas and is able to move far more readily but the burnt toast story demonstrates just how quickly water vapour produced in one area will distribute itself throughout a property.
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