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Originally Posted by Bend it like Bourgeois
Two little household issues I can't seem to solve. Maybe the geniuses at CP can help!
No matter what I try the interior doors in my house seem to squeak. It's only a few years old, and during the builder follow-ups they always 'adjusted' them to stop the squeaking. But it always comes back. Nothing I've tried works for long. Do doors always require periodic maintenance or do I need to do somethign to stop this?
Since installing a new humidifier I seem to get a lot of condensation on the windows. Basically if it's cold outside it doesn't matter how low I set the humidifier it fogs the windows - unless I have the blinds out of the way. Seems to defeat the purpose of having a humidifier if I have it shut off half the winter. Is that just the way it works, or is this a humidifier problem, a funky side effect of my blinds (the honeycomb top-down bottom-up kind), or a sign I have crappy windows or something?
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Don't know about the squeeky hinges (always thought WD40 works), but for the condensation on the glass, you did mention it was a newer house, and supposedly newer houses ALL have this problem. Apparently new houses still have a lot of moisture in the wood and whatnot, which make up the houses' structure, and so it takes a few years to get the enormous amount of condensation from accumulating every winter. At least that's what Greenpark told us years back. It's better to get your builder to check it out to make sure this is the problem (it's not really a problem though), or it could be something else.