Sweaty window frames
Any ideas dealing with sweaty cold window frames when camping in cold weather? I have double pane windows but the frames do not seem to have a thermal barrier.
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TucsonJim wrote:
Get a dehumidifier and use it inside to keep the humidity down. Once the air is dry, your window frames will be too.
Jim
Yup. even with single pane windows our dehumidifer in our 35' trailer will keep the windows and frames dry in outside pouring rain, and temps outside in the 30's. Even at night when the inside temp goes into the 40's, in the AM windows are dry. We turn it on as soon as we have the trailer set up. It's the only way to go camping at the oregon coast in the rainy season (Jan-Dec)
Before the dehumidifier, we had problems with fogged windows and wet frames. We often pull 5 gallons or more of water out of the air each day.
But you need a REAL dehumidifier, one that has a real compressor and refrigerant, not a bucket of the white stuff.
Also ALWAYS have the fan on when taking a shower, or when cooking when boiling or heating water.
When running the stove or oven you will dump about 3 QUARTS of water into the air for each gallon of propane used. Don't worry about the Water heater or furnace, they dump NO water into the interior of the trailer, it gets exhausted outside.
Oh, and the stand alone propane heaters, they are the same as running the stove.
