Hello
My Husband and myself Live in Mi We are in the progress of building our own home.we are living in it.The outside has sheeting and tyveck no siding yet.floors have sheeting not the finished floor yet.Walls are completed, some sheet rock some togue and groove.the inside of the walls we insulated then put plasic,then the sheeting.We are seeing on a couple of the outside walls mold on the bottom of the walls were I had some cabinet doors leaning and we are seeing some water on the remaining plastic that is hanging out of the wall.only on the outside walls.could this be a condinsation problem from not having the siding on and having heat in the house.any info would be much appreciated.we are worried it will start rotting the floor or walls.
Thank you!
Sue In Michigan.

Get a sling hygrometer and test your relative indoor humidity before we start doing anything to your home. Siding provides very little R valve, primarily gets water to sheet off the house and makes the house look good. What are the outside temps, inside temps and check that RH with a sling

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Originally Posted by ballengerb1

Get a sling hygrometer and test your relative indoor humidity before we start doing anything to your home. Siding provides very little R valve, primarily gets water to sheet off the house and makes the house look good. What are the outside temps, inside temps and check that RH with a sling

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Hi
Thank you for getting back to me.When you said humidity in house that opened some eyes.we have an indoor water garden aprox 250 gal.We have very good windows in our new home and we have also noticed them having lots of condinsation on the inside of them.and the window sills getting wet.We started using our ceiling fans, We have High open ceilings.all tongue and groove it seems the fans are helping the windows.. I will get a tester.
Thank you!
Sue

Buy a sling hygrometer if you can but a plan hygrometer can fairly accurately measure humidity which I think you will find to be too high. Condenstaion on the inside of any surface means one of two things, maybe bot; you have bad insulation or your humidity is too high.