Humidity and Traditional Buildings

When I talked about humidity the last time, I realised there was a lot more to say. It's not enough just to understand what humidity is, how temperature affects relative humidity, and how important it is to keep your walls airtight.

Keeping walls airtight is still very important, but we also need to understand how moisture moves through materials, and how important that is if moisture does get into your building materials, which is an undesirable, but unfortunately not unavoidable situation.

In this video I also look at traditional buildings, how they overcome humidity, and how traditional building culture can be influenced by events as well by the local climate and available building materials.