Moisture in the basement can be problematic for both the body and your health.
Moisture in the basement can cause serious damage to the building’s materials and structures. The high humidity gives good conditions for attack and growth of advice and fungi.
But moisture in the basement doesn’t have to be a big problem if you have control over it. Consult KapitalBasements to get this help.
For example, if moisture penetrates through the basement wall, evaporates on the inside, and then ventures out again, a little bit of moisture need not be problematic. In most cases you will be able to measure increased humidity in the basement constructions, without having to do anything for that reason.
If you do not deal with the moisture problems in the basement, you may risk moisture and mold spreading and, in the worst case, causing a fungal attack that can eventually infect the entire home.
An extensive attack, for example of real house sponge, can become quite serious for the home and expensive and cumbersome to get rid of again.
Moisture and fungi can cause allergies and other unpleasant genes in the people living in the home. Mushrooms in the home (e.g. mold) can e.g. cause irritated eyes, airway genes, headaches, dizziness and difficulty concentrating. The symptoms are particularly severe in people who already suffer from respiratory allergy.
The problems arise when:
You start using the basement for other purposes than it was originally built for. In the past, you used the basement for coal and coke, weight room and laundry room, but today we want dry and warm cellars that can be used for several purposes, such as storage, hobby room, living room and the like. This places greater demands on the basement’s technical quality and requires greater control over the moisture.
The moisture is not vented, but is accumulated in the air and in constructions, so that fertility can be formed for different types of fungi (typically mold). Moisture can accumulate if the basement is not vented, or if, for example, wall or floor constructions have not been properly constructed.
In particular, cellars in older homes from before 1950 are almost always damp. They were simply not built to be completely dense. Just as the tooth of time with degradations of mortars, plaster and the like can also create moisture problems.
There are many examples that the moisture problems in a basement have deteriorated when one has tried to solve the problem of moisture and cold by isolating the basement on the inside. It is therefore important that you grab the task correctly, if you are going to renovate your basement.
Where does the moisture come from?
Moisture in the basement typically comes from the surrounding terrain, where the soil’s content of submerged rainwater, ordinary soil moisture or groundwater penetrates through basement walls and / or floors.
Leaky drainage wells or drainage pipes or leaked water pipes located outside a basement wall can also create local moisture effects of quite large concentrations and cause greater moisture damage inside the basement wall. Finally, the air in the basement can be filled with moisture if you, for example, have a bathroom, laundry and drying in it.
