Icey windows

[dixiedoodle]

We live in a mobile home. Our windows has a storm window too. When it was very cold this week,we had ice so thick on the windows inside. Didn,t feel any air comming thru. Have to keep a towel in-between the windows for the sweat or ice melting. What can I get to put on there so it won,t ice over?

[agmantoo]

Are you burning unvented heaters in the home?

[sage_morgan]

The difference between the cold outside air and the warm inside air on opposite sides of a single pane of glass caused the icing on the inside. Just keep up on the mopping up when it melts. You aren't going to be cold that long and it shouldn't do any harm.

And hey, it's really pretty sometimes. HTH

I grew up in a mobile home in the plains and the fancy frosts on our windows are one of my happy memories. Of course I wasn't paying the bills!

[NWoods_Hippie]

I took this photo last winter at the house I lived in, this was with storm windows! I think it is beautiful but makes for a drippy mess when it thaws!



When I lived in my carpy trailer I had ice in the window problems also, I put that thin sticky insulated strip stuff on the edge off all the storms and it helped. Do you have the storms that are on the inside?

Peace,
Margie

[tamsam]

Are your screens on the inside of the windows? If so take them out and wrap them in plastic and put them back. That worked for me in a trailer once and on my motorhome. Sam

[Marcia in MT]

Somewhere, there is air leaking. I would bet that because the moisture is inside the two windows, the inside, more humid air is leaking into the space. And cold outside air leaking in around the storms could be compounding the problem.

You will have to make sure both windows are tightly sealed all around in order to stop the problem. And we found that when we lived in Seattle, putting plastic over the ground in the crawlspace under our house really helped with the moisture on the windows problems.

[highlands]

We get iced windows because we keep the house cool. The ice makes very pretty patterns on the glass. See:

http://sugarmtnfarm.com/blog/2005/12/fractal-frost.html

Cheers

-Walter
Sugar Mountain Farm
in the mountains of Vermont
http://SugarMtnFarm.com/blog/
http://HollyGraphicArt.com/
http://NoNAIS.org

[susieM]

Bubblewrap?

[unregistered6474]

If your furnace has a built-in humidifier, it is important to turn the humidity way down during cold snaps.

If you are cooking something on the top of the stove and have a fan above it, turn it on to suck the humidity out.

A dehumidifier should also help. Anything you can do to get the humidity out of the inside air. It gets better when the temp is above 25 or so.

[vallyfarm]

Hads that problem when a group of us all showered at night. All that humidity when the outside was getting the coldest. Started spacing out showers and the problem cleared up. Mike