Fairly Big Attic Dry And Even

We have a home in ne oklahoma custom built 7 1 2 years ago.

Fairly big attic dry and even.

You may notice small black spots of mold forming on the insulation boxes and even the framework in your attic. Plus being up high with plenty of airflow can make the space inside a fairly dry environment. The home is constructed of brick exterior walls with plaster on the interior so little opportunity to insulate within walls. One of the primary causes of attic moisture is an unsealed opening between the attic and the rest of the home though poor ventilation can also lead to moisture issues.

Don t just toss anything up into your attic consider the environment that s created in this top floor space. I am attaching pictures. Water in your attic can damage wood. Fixing cracks in drywall even if the crack is big is an inexpensive repair that can make a damaged wall look fresh and new again.

This is the second time after a snowfall that snow obviously blew into attic through vent at end of eve but also this time it came into ridge vents piled up on top of attic insulation and melted making wet spots on ceiling of bottom floor. Proper sealing ventilation and insulation will prevent many common problems faced by homeowners. How to dry out a wet attic. How to insulate an old walk up attic.

But would there be any point in say making several fairly big holes in the polystyrene and filling those holes with rockwool to counteract the condensation. I have a home built in 1850 with a walk up attic via a full size door and staircase with sloped ceilings and a few windows even. If necessary use a dehumidifier. Though attics are typically hot and dry a leaky roof or pipe condensation or severe weather can cause water to enter your attic.

Though dehumidifiers will help they don t address the root cause. A dehumidifier could be the perfect solution for drying out the air in your attic. A dehumidifier may be used to reduce moisture in the air. Allowing moisture to build up inside your attic can lead to a wide range of problems later down the road.

Drywall typically gets two kinds of damage. To dry out a moist attic be sure to properly ventilate and insulate the space. Few attics are heated or cooled so they re extra hot in the summer and frigid in the winter. Large concentrations of this toxic black mold may cause allergies respiratory infections and other alignments.

A dehumidifier will cease to remove any more moisture once its storage tank becomes full. 17 is the vent over a window to a bedroom that the ceiling sheetrock. I even tried to seal along the walls of the attic floor with rockwool where the polystyrene boards have little gaps which i now think may be worse for condensation. Be sure however to drain it frequently in order to sustain its usefulness.