Help please

[the marine apprentice]

i just run my summer fan all the time. it is low cost and you cant hear it either. i never had it on for that cold snap we just had and all my doors froze up and it was a mess.
i am a roofer and you can always tell who has a bigger tank in their house by the build up of frost when ya rip off the shingles. even in the summer you can see the water marks by the vents and at the peak sometimes as well.

[busypencil]

Thanks for the imput will try and find furnace fan switch.
Linda

[Doo]

Just had the same problem!!!

are you in a new house?

do you have hardwood?

get a humidity reader ($35 from Canadian Tire) that will tell you exactly what the humidity is doing in your house.

with hardwood as per our installers should be between 30%-35%
and that is exactly what mine was.

The problem I had was improper insulation in the garage. We have a bonus room and the vapor barrier was incorrectly installed. Once they dropped the dry wall they could see that some spots did not have any vapor barrier and other spots did not have the vapor barrier stapled...

I would check that out.

I hope that helps!

[busypencil]

I do not have hardwood floors but did discover the access hatch to attic did not have vapor barrier or insulation so humidity vented upward. Found a humidity reader for $3.00 at canadian tire and it was up to 65 % insulated access need to put weather stripping on access and placed a large fan in attic to move air around more. Have avoided looking up there again as hatch is hard to close. House humitity is now 35-50 I keep two windown open a couple of inches to let humitidy escape.
Thanks for the info about reccomended levels.

[fishoholic]

We had the same problem, we installed one of these http://www.rona.ca/shop/~turbine-dua...ditioning_shop on our roof and it seems to help. We also run a dehumidifier.