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SUBSEQUENT STREAM ON THURSDAY 19h SEPTEMBER AT 3.30 PM UK TIME
Why there's a boom for damp-busting machines
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As temperatures (slumped, plummeted, crashed, shrank) in recent weeks, traces of mould began to spread in Kate Martin's home.
Those tell-tale black, dusty (specks, scraps, shreds, crumbs) first colonised the windowsill, and then took over parts of the wallpaper and nearby furniture.
"I couldn't breathe properly, my chest hurt," says Mrs Martin, an artist who lives in the Midlands. It was time to (stir, fire, rouse, heat) up her dehumidifier.
After cleaning the mould (out, away, down, off) and letting the machine do its work, she soon noticed a difference in air quality. "We were breathing freely again."
Because water vapour in indoor air is prone to condensing onto cold surfaces, drying this air slightly can reduce or eliminate condensation and, therefore, mould, which (succeeds, thrives, prevails, booms) on damp.
Mrs Martin's house also feels warmer and (simpler, better, cozier, easier) to heat - that's because it takes less energy to warm up dry air.
Our bodies are sensitive to humidity, also, since moisture in the air (encourages, motivates, urges, advances) heat to escape from the surface of our skin.
"It doesn't matter if you have 10 blankets, if it's (wet, humid, moist, damp), you are freezing," says Mrs Martin.
Energy prices this winter remain (approx., or so, nigh, roughly) double what they were two years ago.
As a result of the energy crisis (activated, tripped, launched, triggered) by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, people around the UK have sought low-cost methods of keeping their homes warm and dry.
This has led to an apparent (explosion, advance, mushroom, boom) in sales of dehumidifiers.
