Reduce Condensation Damp

Maidstone's housing stock is unusually mixed for a town its size. The old town centre around the High Street and Fremlin Walk still has plenty of Georgian and Victorian brick buildings with solid, uninsulated walls, split over the years into flats and offices that were never designed for that many separate households generating moisture under one roof. Head out towards Loose or Tovil and you're into steep, low-lying ground close to the River Len and the Loose Stream, where damp ground conditions push moisture up through older solid floors as well as in through the walls.

Then there's the ring of 1930s semis and inter-war estates around the town, built with cavity walls that seemed modern at the time but are narrow by today's standards and prone to cold bridging at the corners, plus the newer estates further out at Bearsted, Allington and Weavering, sealed tight for energy efficiency with trickle vents that mostly stay shut. Three very different building types, three different reasons for the same steamed-up windows and the same corner of black mould in the coldest bedroom.

A dehumidifier bought online treats one room in one property type. It doesn't touch a Georgian building's solid walls, a Loose Valley property's ground moisture, or a modern estate house's sealed-up trickle vents. A whole-house system, sized and commissioned for your specific property, does.