furnace next to grow creating condinsation on the windows all over the house??
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420God
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Put plastic on the windows.
420God
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It should stop pulling humid air in from outside and help dry the air inside. They sell window plastic at most hardware stores. I have to do it every winter.
Jefferstone
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What is your outside relative humidity? How big is your grow? Do you have single pane, or double pane or better windows?
I only ask because I can't see a non-commercial sized grow doing this. I guess you could put a dehumidifier in the basement with your grow. Do you have standing water near your grow, like buckets of water or watering cans? How moist do you keep the soil? Do you humidify the grow room?
Have you checked your furnace to see if it has a humidifying feature? Perhaps the two together are putting to much humidity in the air.
Before we got new windows, I'd get condensation every year, grow or not.
I only ask because I can't see a non-commercial sized grow doing this. I guess you could put a dehumidifier in the basement with your grow. Do you have standing water near your grow, like buckets of water or watering cans? How moist do you keep the soil? Do you humidify the grow room?
Have you checked your furnace to see if it has a humidifying feature? Perhaps the two together are putting to much humidity in the air.
Before we got new windows, I'd get condensation every year, grow or not.
lifesgood
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Its been humid as of late and ive been pumping the intake to keep the temps down... see this is the issue the plants love the humidity but i dont my windows are dripping with water and there is a general "wet" feeling around the house
the windows are double paned and the grow is 5 1000 watt lights over 300 plants , and yes my rezs are full of sitting water.... i have a large room connected to a smaller room and i humidify the smaller room
this is an older house so yes humidity can be a normal thing , but thiis amount is too much its gross... and being that its an older house the furnace doesnt have such options
i am considering throwing in the air cons if this doesnt go away the results will be lack luster but at least i wont have to worry about neighbours wondering about all that condisisation
420God
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It's a little thicker and can be heat shrunk with a blower dryer so it doesn't look bad.
Jefferstone
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That is a serious grow. I don't think you can really do much about the source, no matter how dry you keep that room you are going to have some serious humidity issues.
Here's what I'd try:
I'd weatherstrip the grow room door like it was an outside door so you can keep the humidity in that one room.
I'd get a dehumidifier to run right outside the grow room door, near the furnace.
You can weatherstrip the windows, and the shrinkwrap stuff works well. What you are trying to achieve with that stuff is to create an insulating area between the outside glass and the inside so the water doesn't condense on the cooler surface.
One final trick, you can point a fan at the window surface. Though someone might ask why you are running a fan in the winter. If you have ceiling fans, put them in winter mode and crank them up.