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Humidity:
Why is it difficult to heat your home?
Humidity is an insidious problem which, in addition to causing visible damage, can make your home particularly difficult and expensive to heat. Moisture-laden air is inherently more difficult to heat than dry air. This is because the water in the air absorbs a great deal of heat. As a result, your heating system has to put in extra effort, resulting in excessive energy consumption. It is estimated that humid air can require up to 30% more energy to reach the same comfort temperature as dry air. This leads to a persistent feeling of cold, even when the heating system is running at full capacity, and generates an uncomfortable atmosphere of "raw cold".
Humidity doesn't just affect the ambient air; it also attacks the materials in your home. Damp walls, floors and ceilings act as heat conductors, dissipating heat outwards instead of keeping it in. What's more,your home's thermal insulation is compromised because insulating materials, when soaked in moisture, lose much of their insulating properties. Damp walls are cold walls, actively contributing to the feeling of cold and heat loss, and can lead to structural and foundation damage in the long term.
Causes of humidity that affect your heating system
A number of phenomena can be at the root of the humidity that makes your home energy-hungry. Capillary rise, where water from the ground migrates into the walls, water infiltration through roofing, façades or faulty joinery, as well as condensation due to poor ventilation and persistent high hygrometry, are all causes. Each of these sources of humidity contributes to saturating the air and materials in your home, forcing you to turn up the heat in an attempt to compensate, which affects the lifespan of your property and the comfort of its occupants.
How can you improve your heating efficiency and reduce your bills?
We offer you a free in-home diagnosis (value CHF 350.-). Our experts carry out a complete analysis to identify the exact causes of damp (stains and mold, blistered paint, infiltration, condensation, bad odors, etc.). We then propose sustainable solutions, such asinjecting above-ground walls to block capillary rise, casing buried walls to stop lateral infiltration, or installing air treatment systems (such as Mechanical Insufflation Ventilation) to control hygrometry and eliminate condensation. These interventions are designed to clean up your home and restore the efficiency of your insulation and heating, enabling you to make significant energy savings and regain optimum comfort, while preventing deterioration of your building.
Our anti-humidity treatments are carried out using our own products from our own factories, guaranteeing a direct circuit and proven effectiveness, with follow-up and a guarantee of up to 30 years.
