The grade II listed property, near Bishop Stortford, has required extensive renovations that has spanned over two winters and a lack of heating, combined with building works and damp weather, saw humidity inside the building regularly rise to 99%. The humidity problem at the cottage, which is constructed from traditional materials such as limecrete and lime render, was so severe that potential damage to some of the original timber structure and fixings was a serious problem. The possibility of simply heating the property with temporary heaters during the renovation was not an option as it could have compromised the curing of the lime – so Calorex offered a solution to this problem through their Porta-Dry machine. A Calorex PD 600, with optional humidistat, was seen as the d

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