"Mark" wrote in message
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the other is essential to keeping mold under control. Letting the
room fill with steam over the long run will at a minimum create a surface mold
problem and potentially create a problem behind the surface.


bull,

open the window in the summer and open the door in the winter.

I've never had bath fans, and have never had mold problems.

Humidity is a good thing to have in the house in the winter.

I learned the hard way not to do this.

In the winter, letting that much moisture out into my home enabled it to
condense on all the windows. And that much moisture on all the windows
led to mildew all over. Perhaps it's not as cold where you live. But
in northern MA where I live, during the winter it's typical for the dew
point to drop quite low at night.

A *little bit* of moisture in the winter is a good thing--I will take
the towel I used to dry myself off with, and hang it up in my bedroom to
let the moisture evaporate off the towel there. But not the kind of
steam you get from a hot bath or hot shower.



-- Steven L.