On Saturday, 13 January 2018 21:26:02 UTC, Fredxx wrote:
On 13/01/2018 20:52, Chris Hogg wrote:
On Sat, 13 Jan 2018 20:42:00 +0000, Fredxx wrote:

As per title, water is dripping from cold water pipes under a
worksurface in cupboards.

After drying these pipes water collects on these, finally dripping on
items below. Its not doing the cabinets any good.

Currently there is no insulation and the pipes are bare.

Is there any surface treatment or form of insulation that will reduce
the dripping?

They drip because the water in them is cold and the air around them is
humid, so the moisture condenses (but I guess you realise that). I
doubt that there's any surface treatment, but lagging with
conventional pipe lagging should do the trick, provided you don't
leave any bare pipe exposed. Stuff like this http://bit.ly/2Fz94pt

Thanks for the idea.

I was thinking along similar lines but this must be a common problem but
not aware of an equally common solution.

too much water vapour in the air. Reduce it at source by changing cooking habits. If you can't peruade folk to do that then a dehumidifier would solve it.

Lagging would need to be airtight & vapour impermeable or it could very slowly saturate & moulder, depending on how much of the time condensation is occurring.


NT