NAT: How can strata apartment owners prevent mould forming during periods of high humidity?

Question: Can you provide some tips for our viewers who have joined us from areas affected by the recent high rainfall? What should they be doing right now to prevent mould from forming in their strata apartments if there’s high humidity outside?

Answer: You just have to wait it out. Keep a dry setting on the air conditioner.

If you’ve got a split system air conditioner, set it to a dry setting. If there’s high humidity outside and you don’t have an air conditioner, there’s not much you can do. You can’t remediate Mother Nature. It’s just a matter of when the day is perfect, open the strata apartment up and ventilate to help with mould.

You can install fans. However, if you do install fans to speed up the rate of evaporation or dehumidifiers make sure that you can keep the wet air inside flushed out. With remediation when we do structural drying, there is a closed drying technique and an open environment technique and this depends on what’s happening outside.

If you’ve got two weeks of rain, there’s absolutely nothing you can do. You just have to wait it out. Keep a dry setting on the air conditioner and remove the mould at its source. That’s the best you can do.

Ryan Richards
Sedgwick
E: Ryan.Richards@au.sedgwick.com
P: 1300 735 720