Dampness issues in Japanese homes
With the rainy season over for all of Japan and the worst of the stifling humidity almost past, let’s take a look with MyVoice at a recent survey on what people think about household damp.
Demographics
Over the first five days of July 2007 13,139 members of the MyVoice internet community completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 54% of the sample was male, 2% in their teens, 18% in their twenties, 39% in their thirties, 27% in their forties, and 14% aged fifty or older.
Luckily, we have a fancy bathroom that includes a drying feature, but my main concern about dampness is a stickiness on the veneer flooring. The moisture removing feature of our air conditioners keep the air clear, but the unpleasant feeling underfoot is much more difficult, if not impossible, to get rid of.
Our last flat, however, was a real moisture magnet, and especially in the bedroom during the winter moisture would accumulate really easily, and no amount of water-repelling spray or other devices could get around that problem.
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