Water in the Windows

The silicone caulking that we put all around the dining room windows to stop the leaks seems to have produced an unintended consequence. We seem to have sealed moisture inside the panes.


It's more than cold weather condensation. It's drips and streaks of water permanently inside the glass. Even after several dry sunny days with the sun beating on these dining room windows, we have a lot of water inside the panes. It doesn't go away.


It's time to go to the window store and get new windows installed. If we don't do anything we are going to be looking at dry desert scenery all winter through a veil of water. And when it gets really cold, as it can in Santa Fe in winter, we are going to be looking out through sheets of ice.

I did not expect water problems to be an issue in our new home. We have no basement to keep dry, it rarely rains, and the climate is arid. But we have water in our windows.

Comments

jim cassidy said…
Check the humidity levels in the house. Do you have exhaust fans in bath and kitchen? What kind of heat do you have? Something is causing the moisture to do what it does well, follow the laws of physics by condensing on the warm side of a cold surface.
November 16, 2018 at 1:31 PM
Laurrie said…
It's actually inside the panes. The seals are shot and moisture has entered between the glass panes. We have other windows around the house (18 years old now) that are showing this, but since we caulked the dining room windows they are the worst. (Our heat is forced hot air, which I hate. Humidity inside the house is pretty dry -- everything here is so dry!!)
November 17, 2018 at 3:24 PM
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