ᐅ Is ventilating/drying after installing the screed/interior plaster advisable?
Created on: 31 Jan 2017 12:08
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Dan8070
Hello everyone,
Our shell construction has been standing since November; we are waiting for consistently above-freezing temperatures and will continue with applying the interior plaster and screed installation in March/April, depending on the weather (single-family house, 143 sqm (1,540 sq ft), fully basemented).
In the basement, we have underfloor heating in 3 of the 4 rooms; only the utility room is unheated. One basement room has a large daylight window, while the other three (including the one without underfloor heating) have standard basement window wells.
Since we have great respect for the issue of moisture and do not want to rush the timeline, we really want to proceed with the floor coverings only when moisture measurements provide certainty.
My thought now is whether we should use 2–3 dehumidifiers alongside the consistent shock ventilation (opening windows fully 5 times a day, reliably maintained for several weeks; I work 4 km (2.5 miles) from the site; my parents live next door) to support the drying process for about 2 weeks, starting 4–5 weeks after the screed is installed.
The primary idea is not faster drying, but more thorough drying.
What do you think? Is spending a few hundred dollars well invested?
By the way, we are installing fleece screed.
Thanks for your opinions.
Our shell construction has been standing since November; we are waiting for consistently above-freezing temperatures and will continue with applying the interior plaster and screed installation in March/April, depending on the weather (single-family house, 143 sqm (1,540 sq ft), fully basemented).
In the basement, we have underfloor heating in 3 of the 4 rooms; only the utility room is unheated. One basement room has a large daylight window, while the other three (including the one without underfloor heating) have standard basement window wells.
Since we have great respect for the issue of moisture and do not want to rush the timeline, we really want to proceed with the floor coverings only when moisture measurements provide certainty.
My thought now is whether we should use 2–3 dehumidifiers alongside the consistent shock ventilation (opening windows fully 5 times a day, reliably maintained for several weeks; I work 4 km (2.5 miles) from the site; my parents live next door) to support the drying process for about 2 weeks, starting 4–5 weeks after the screed is installed.
The primary idea is not faster drying, but more thorough drying.
What do you think? Is spending a few hundred dollars well invested?
By the way, we are installing fleece screed.
Thanks for your opinions.
Knallkörper schrieb:
and the building is properly heated But how else without a construction dryer?
Turn on the underfloor heating with fresh screed? (if it’s even connected yet)
But on milder days, you could keep the windows tilted open permanently, right? Or would that be completely unwise? (aside from rain etc.)
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Knallkörper2 Feb 2017 15:30Kaspatoo schrieb:
How without a building dryer?With fan heaters. For fast-setting screed, for example, you can start the underfloor heating’s warming-up program after just 3 days.
Tilt the windows if you are heating inside: The reveals are cold and warm, moist air could condense there; also, more heating energy is required.
If you are not heating indoors, in my opinion, tilting the windows does not help much. Rewetting could also occur, for example, if it is warmer outside than inside around midday.
Is there a difference between a building dryer and a fan heater?
If not, I don’t understand your answer "with fan heaters" to my question "how without a building dryer?"
When I research both terms, I would say many suppliers in this field use them interchangeably.
So far, for me, both terms are synonyms and refer to electrically powered devices that generate heat and use an additional fan to blow the warm air out of the device into the surrounding space. Presumably, there are devices whose fans actually produce air movement and those that only transport heat from the device’s casing.
If not, I don’t understand your answer "with fan heaters" to my question "how without a building dryer?"
When I research both terms, I would say many suppliers in this field use them interchangeably.
So far, for me, both terms are synonyms and refer to electrically powered devices that generate heat and use an additional fan to blow the warm air out of the device into the surrounding space. Presumably, there are devices whose fans actually produce air movement and those that only transport heat from the device’s casing.
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