I notice that the last year or so during the winter months I have been getting a lot of condensation. Of course its a great deal in the bathroom as you would expect but I notice the beginning of dry rot stain occurring in the skylights at the other end of the houseThe rot locations are in the lower corners. Also it is was forming on the lower corners of the bathroom and adjacent bedroom windows and I remove it by wiping. THere is a small ice rind there as well. All windows are Low E Thermopane of good quality and tight fitting.. House is well insulated 1995 built. There are only 3 of us with none taken to the fabled "hour long showers" and there is not a lot of cooking going on, shower fan being used ect. No mods to the attic insulation to prevent moisture escape either. Currently humidity is around 60% give or take. We had no humidity issues before the pellet stove in 2005 and I only began to notice it last year really. I did put on an OAK sometime around then but can't say exactly that it is the cause. I do notice a lot of condensation on the intake pipe which I suppose is expected. On the other side of things we keep the place pretty cold around 55 - 65 throughout most of the house and usually use electric space heaters to keep the temps up during the night. Using the electrics let us drop the temps in most of the rest of the house to around 50 during the night which is again no biggie for us and cut corn / wood consumption overall by nearly half.
Ok so what is the best course of action here? Has anyone ever had condensation issues caused by an OAK kit or is it being caused by keeping the temp too low? Would it be easier and more effective to run a dehumidifier than run the stove hotter all night long or is there a better alternative I haven't thought of. I always tell everyone I live in an Arctic Swamp referring to the Northcountry, is this karma or what?
Ok so what is the best course of action here? Has anyone ever had condensation issues caused by an OAK kit or is it being caused by keeping the temp too low? Would it be easier and more effective to run a dehumidifier than run the stove hotter all night long or is there a better alternative I haven't thought of. I always tell everyone I live in an Arctic Swamp referring to the Northcountry, is this karma or what?