Drip….drip, moan
We live in a region that has lots of sunshine. Unfortunately the winters are either cold and damp or mild and damp.

We have a lot of condensation, for most of the winter we can’t see out of the windows without wiping them off because they are steamed up. The front door is warped because it spends most of the winter damp on the INSIDE. I can’t lock it from the outside, I have to lock it from the inside and leave through the ‘French’ windows at the back of the house.

We live in a bungalow and our ventilation system causes lots of problems. The roof is open to the elements and the insulation lies on top of the ceilings as it were. This does work well, if we have a frost I check to see that no heat is escaping via the roof and it isn’t. Unfortunately when the steam from the shower is sucked up into the roof space it cools very quickly and water pools in the ventilation tubes, especially by the ventilators which means they drip. Rob goes up into the roof from time to time to empty them. Any water in the tubes weighs them down onto the insulation which becomes damp and makes wet patches on the ceilings which go moldy pretty quickly. Yesterday I discovered the floor was wet around the washing machine. The tube which connects to the water is leaking, very slowly but enough to wet the floor over a period of time.

If you read about a woman in France who has webbed feet, it will be me.