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Ventilate properly: keep your apartment fresh and avoid mold

2021-07-08T20:17:13.384Z


If the air in the apartment is too humid, black spots form on the walls and ceiling. Correct ventilation helps prevent mold in the home. 


If the air in the apartment is too humid, black spots form on the walls and ceiling.

Correct ventilation helps prevent mold in the home. 

Ventilating the apartment properly is essential: Open the window, let out used, humid air and instead let in oxygen-rich, dry air.

Do not ventilate enough pollutants in your room.

These include exhaled carbon dioxide, fine dust, mold spores and bad smells.

In addition, moisture collects on your walls, which promotes mold growth.

And not a little: a family of four gives off a good 12 liters of moisture a day.

Tenants are legally obliged to prevent mold growth in the apartment.

This is how you ventilate every room in your home properly

Rooms are used differently and therefore have to be ventilated differently.

The decisive questions are: How many people are there?

How much is heated?

Are there any sources that produce additional moisture?

  • Living room:

    The air is used up quickly, especially when there are several people in the room.

    Therefore, the room must be ventilated regularly.

    Ideally, at least four times a day.

    More often when there are a lot of plants in the room, laundry is being dried or there is an indoor fountain in the room.

    Bad air and drips on the window are warning signs that the living room is already too humid.

  • Bedroom:

    You produce a lot of moisture when you sleep.

    Therefore, it is best for the room to be ventilated all night.

    If it is too cold, open the windows in the morning and in the evening.

  • Kitchen and bathroom:

    In these rooms, a lot of moisture is created thanks to water vapor.

    The rule says: It is best to ventilate well during or immediately afterwards.

    In addition, wipe the walls dry after showering and do without textile curtains in the bathroom.

  • Basement:

    If warm air meets cold basement walls, these become damp.

    Therefore, the basement should be well ventilated in the mornings and evenings during the warm months.

    In the cold season, the time does not matter.

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Correct ventilation will help you avoid mold in the apartment

It is not enough just to open the window.

On the contrary: if it is tilted all day, the moisture collects on the ceiling above and you risk mold.

If the heating is still running, you are wasting energy.

The rules for good ventilation:

  • Do not leave the window tilted, but ventilate it at regular intervals.

  • Always turn the heating down when ventilating.

  • If possible, create a draft and tear open the opposite windows.

  • It is better to close the doors of the bathroom and kitchen while ventilating the room so that the moist air does not move into other rooms.

  • Correct heating

    : The rooms should never be cooled down completely, but rather be heated moderately and constantly in winter.

    A temperature of 16 degrees is ideal for little used rooms.

Incidentally, rain does not matter, as long as it does not rain into the room.

How long you should ventilate also depends on the outside temperature.

In winter you can quickly cool the apartment down and thus drive up your heating costs.

Therefore the following applies:

  • In winter:

    ventilate for five minutes.

  • In spring / autumn:

    ventilate for 15 minutes.

  • In summer:

    ventilate for 30 minutes or more.

Dry laundry in the apartment without risking mold

Wet clothes should not be allowed to dry in the home.

Use a laundry room, if there is one, or hang the laundry outside - even in cold temperatures.

If this is not possible, you should ventilate the room particularly often and close the door to other rooms.

A hygrometer ensures that the apartment is already too damp or not.

These are already available for little money.

A

humidity of 50 percent

is perfect.

Ventilate properly to get rid of aerosols

A special topic in times of corona: How do dangerous aerosols best escape?

The rule “the more often the better” applies here in particular.

If the outside temperature is pleasant, it is best to keep the window open all the time.

If that's too hot or cold, ventilate a meeting room at least every 20 minutes, an office every 60 minutes, and a classroom every 45 minutes for at least three to ten minutes.

(ls) * Merkur.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA.

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