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"If you fit double glazing it will cure condensation"
Nothing could be further from the truth. Often before double glazing is fitted single glazed windows ‘steam up’ or run with water on cold mornings. After fitting new double glazed windows hey presto the condensation no longer forms on the windows - in other words it is no longer visible but has it gone away? Well from the windows yes - but previously the single glazed windows ran with water and in so doing they acted as a dehumidifier removing water vapour from the atmosphere within the property. It is also very probable that the old single glazed windows did not fit as well and they provided a certain amount of ‘involuntary ventilation’. By fitting draft free sealed unit double glazed windows the dehumidification effect of the single glazed windows is removed and the ‘involuntary ventilation’ prevented.
If the life style of the occupants remains unchanged then a proportion of the water vapour that previously formed on the windows or escaped in drafts will now form elsewhere. Very often mould growth on walls as a result of condensation starts to occur in properties after double glazing has been installed.
So does double glazing cure condensation? No it does not - it just shifts it elsewhere.
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