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I am hoping people will drop me a line with any DIY tips that they find particularly useful.

For now, here is my first. Double glazing condensation

My 20 year old double glazing has behaved itself pretty well apart from one small window, which has accumulated more and more condensation, principally on the inside of the outside pane, if you know what I mean.

I looked it up on the net (of course) and advice varied from 'get it replaced' to 'replace it yourself ' to some quite useful hints.

In the end I decided to have a go and used some of the tips.

I didn't want to take the window out but managed to drill two quarter inch holes through the plastic at one side and through the aluminium spacer.

Fortunately I had a vacuum cleaner with a very small nozzle attachment. I pushed this into one of the holes, taping it in place on the window frame.

I then fixed a similar nozzle to a hair drier and pushed this in the other hole, starting both pieces of equipment, the one to evapourate the offending droplets and the other to extract the vapour. It took about two minutes for the hair drier to overheat and cut out ! Thinking that this exercise was going to cost me at least one hair drier I crossed my fingers that it would cool down - which it did.

Wafting the hair drier over the hole was not getting anywhere so I directed the heat to the outside of the window where the condensation appear. This was much more effective and one side cleared quite quickly. At the far end of the window from the extractor I didn't seem to be getting anywhere until I noticed that the condensation at transferred from the heated outer pane to the colder inner pane, so transferred the hot air to that side. Success !

Here are four pictures showing the stages

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