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Some strategies for avoiding moisture problems in your home

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Eliminate moisture sources in your home, by never drying firewood indoors.

It's also not good to have too many houseplants in the living areas of your home.

Install quiet bathroom fans and be sure to use they when useing the shower. If your bathroom fan is too noisy, you and your family are very unlikely to use it.

Install a kitchen range heed fan that exhausts to the outside of your home. The best one is a variable speed model that is quiet enough to be used on a regular basees.The SONE rating should be less than 3.0.

Ensure your home has proper flashing and roofing details to keep rain out of the home.

Having roof overhangs to keep most of the rain off the outside walls and to keep the runoof from the roof from the foundation walls.

Be sure the ground slopes away from foundation walls so rainwater will be less likely to run into your basement.

Use a rainscreen on the outside of the walls so that theres an air space between the exterior wall sheathing and siding. By doing this it allows the siding to dry out between rainstorms, and it will prevent heat or wind from driving any moisture into the home's wall cavity.

Provide a vapor diffusion retarder on the warm side of the insulated envelop. In cold climates this will typically be on the inside of the walls. In warmer climates where air conditioning is more widely used, it's more likely to be on the exterior side of the wall.

Be sure to have a continuous air barrier in the building envelope to minimize air leakage and to keep moisture out of the wall and roof cavities. Most moisture that gets into the wall cavities is carried there by air leakage, and not by diffusing through permeable surfaces in the wall system.

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25 Comments on Some strategies for avoiding moisture problems in your home

JUN

2008

Hi Dale,

WoW! Excellent list of things to be aware of in order to avoid moisture damage. I didn't realize house plants could add that much moisture to the air....I always thought they were good for cleaning the air. Although, if you think of it, too many could end up releasing a lot of moisture (I just thought of grow houses and the damage they cause).

JUN

2008

Howdy Jo-Anne

Thank ya for stopping by to visit.

House plants do help clean the air in ones home, but just with anything to much of a good thing can also do some damage.

You just don't want to many of them.

God Bless The U.S.A.

JUN

2008

I wouldn't have thoght about the firewood thing! Thanks for pointing that out.

Thanks for the post. I will pass it on to my clients and also check out things in my house.

JUN

2008

Dale is right about that firewood. Keep it away from the house.

I inspected a house a few weeks back that was built in the late 1800's and it had an overhang all the way around extended out about five feet. It sure did keep the Texas sun from hitting the exterior walls and I'm sure when it rained it kept the water off. I would love to have a house with an overhang like that.

Thanks Dale for all the reminders.

JUN

2008

Howdy Georgina

Thank ya for stopping by to visit.

A lot of folk's don't. You are welcome.

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Howdy Gita

Thank ya for visiting.

It'll be very nice of ya to tell your client's about these item's.

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Howdy Carl and Ceil

It's always good to have Y'all stop by for a visit.

Having a home with an overhang like that would be really nice, thats for sure.

They really new how to build them back then my friend's

You are welcome, for sure. And thank you for your kind comment.

P.S. Sure hope AR will let me uoload these replys. Every time I've gone to do something on here tonight I have goten kicked off. Lot my MeMe post 4 times. Also lot it one time last night.

God Bless The U.S.A.

JUN

2008

Dale - This is very good information to share with my husband and clients. Thank you.

Howdy Jennifer

Always glad to have you visit.

Thank you for your kind words.

God Bless The U.S.A.

JUN

2008

Dale, I never thought about houseplants being a source of excess moisture. I certainly wouldn't have firewood drying in the house- I've seen too many critters come out of wood when we would burn logs! Thanks for the list.

Howdy Debbie

I am always glad to have you stop by to visit my friend.

I have not forgoten about being tag by you and 3 others. Just as soon, as AR stops acting up i'll get it posted. I have gone to post it 4 times and lost it every time.

Some folk's like to make small gardens in their homes. I went in to a house one time right as you walked down the entryway, just before you walked in to the livingroom. Low and be holed there was a small jungle growing right there in the house. To much of a good thing, is not always good for ya.

I have gone to visit with friends and found they had their firewood drying in their basements. I have done inspections and found the same thing being done.

Your welcome!

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Howdy Debbie

Well I see AR is not fixed yet. Had that happen 12 times last week, when I would be commenting on folk's post's. Ar would have me logged out, when I had logged in.

God Bless The U.S.A.

Dale - Came by to see how your Blog Log looks; it's nice. I tried to do it but lost my skin. What is Grap This? I'll press it to see what it does; as you know I'm not very good at this; maybe Ceil can figure it out. She told me not to do it anymore because she has to fix my mess ups. Just call me a mess up (ha, ha)

Howdy Carl and Ceil

Carl , I am always glad see ya my friend.

The Grap This, lets ya put in your URL so you can get the code for the MyBlogLog widge box

It just takes a liittle time to learn. A lot of reading goes with the learning.

Carl , reckon I never told ya that I had a Computer Consulting and Programming Business back home, besides doing Home Inspections also . You would not believe all the book's that I have.

Can't wait to see if AR shows me logged out when I up load this.

God Bless The U.S.A.

Howdy Carl

Well look at that my friend, they did. Even though I was logged in, it came up that I was not.

God Bless The U.S.A.

Yes, it sure is acting strange. Seems I spend alot of time logging in; don't realize until I make my comment. Hopefully they will get it all worked out.

Check out my blog I put on this morning - Dog Days of Summer. Whew it was a hot one today and going to be this way all week. We will be going on water ration soon; probably in the next few days. Ceil says she and my neighbor are going to get out and do a rain dance to see if that would help. Last year this time we were having too much rain and now not enough.

Oh I joined your community My Blog Log Thingy. I think they gave me a code at one time but when I put it in is when I lost my skin. I would rather have my skin or whatever you call it.

Yes, it sure is acting strange. Seems I spend alot of time logging in; don't realize until I make my comment. Hopefully they will get it all worked out.

Oh I joined your community My Blog Log Thingy. I think they gave me a code at one time but when I put it in is when I lost my skin. I would rather have my skin or whatever you call it.

JUN

2008

Howdy Carl and Ceil

Glad to have ya visit, my friend's

I have goten a couple of group E-Mails saying that post's are disappearing from the groups.

I never know on till I upload my comments, if AR is going to say, if I was logged out.

I am starting to look in to some other bloging community. The website host that I use also lets you setup a blog as part of your website also. So I am also looking in to that. If I do with any of these idea, I don't know if I'll say with AR or just kick them to the side.

I did stop by your blog my friend.

Thank ya Carl.

God Bless The U.S.A.

JUN

2008

Interesting - I would not have thought houseplants would be such a problem.

JUN

2008

Howdy Bill

Thank ya for stopping by to visit.

Anything can trun in to a problem, if it is over done.

God Bless The U.S.A.

Howdy parnter...good suggestions all. Problem is at my age, give me quiet exhaust fans and they'll be on forever. I turn them off when they get annoying!! Thanks for the info, can I pass this along to clients?

Howdy Laura

Thank you for stopping by to visit.

Sometimes they can do that to folk's thats for sure.

Thank you very much for asking, I'll let you pass it along to your clients.

God Bless The U.S.A.

JUN

2008

Hi Dale...Thanks for commenting on my first AR blog post! I love these kind of posts where I learn something I didn't know. I had not heard of the SONE rating. I look forward to learning more about that one. This is especially a great post idea for homeowners with bathrooms that don't have natural ventilation (a window!).

Home inspectors are not online yet in my area. Oh well, you are now a bookmarked site for me. Every area has its issues...with us so near the ocean and many beautiful trees, we have moisture, termites, beetles, and, of course, we're in earthquake country. Thanks again for your welcome! ~ Marian

JUN

2008

Howdy Marian

Thank ya for stopping by to visit and commenting.

Your are very welcome.

I am glad you enjoyed read this here post.

God Bless The U.S.A.

AUG

2008

turtle Hello! I sure wish you were here in Tennessee with all that knowledge... and you know computers too. I am a little slow on the computer stuff. I can do basic stuff but I am trying to prove to myself you can teach an old dog new tricks. I am glad to hear things are running slow for you too. I am out in the country and we have to pipe in the sunshine with the satellite... so I just thought HugesNet was running slow. Have a good one Brenda :)