Hi all,
We are moving into an apartment on the 7th floor that has a big pre-existing problem with mold (we live in a hot, humid country!). The (false) ceiling in one bedroom is so moldy that it had to be cut out and replaced. When the ceiling was removed we found the entire insulation around the AC duct soaked (and moldy). Further, as you can see in the pictures there are loads of water droplets on the top of the ceiling (that is, the floor of the above apartment).
We know that the previous tenant never ran the aircon in that room or ventilated the house. The agent thinks that because the room was much hotter than normal, the temperature difference between the air in the crawl space and the real ceiling/8th floor room above us, caused the condensation. But this does not explain why the AC insulation is soaked through.
Once we move in, we will be using the AC in that room, so presumably that huge variation in temperature wont happen. But can this be a likely explanation for all that water in there? And even if it is, I cant ask the guy upstairs to turn off his air con, so whats the solution to preventing this condensation in our crawl space?
We are moving into an apartment on the 7th floor that has a big pre-existing problem with mold (we live in a hot, humid country!). The (false) ceiling in one bedroom is so moldy that it had to be cut out and replaced. When the ceiling was removed we found the entire insulation around the AC duct soaked (and moldy). Further, as you can see in the pictures there are loads of water droplets on the top of the ceiling (that is, the floor of the above apartment).
We know that the previous tenant never ran the aircon in that room or ventilated the house. The agent thinks that because the room was much hotter than normal, the temperature difference between the air in the crawl space and the real ceiling/8th floor room above us, caused the condensation. But this does not explain why the AC insulation is soaked through.
Once we move in, we will be using the AC in that room, so presumably that huge variation in temperature wont happen. But can this be a likely explanation for all that water in there? And even if it is, I cant ask the guy upstairs to turn off his air con, so whats the solution to preventing this condensation in our crawl space?
