where's my camera there you are now i've just woken up and it's occurred to me there's one
thing i haven't shared and that's my morning routine but there's one thing in particular
that i do every morning thats deal with this condensation on the glass because this moisture on
the glass can cause damp in your camper van and it can cause mould which then can cause lung infections
obviously just woke up i need a coffee i'm just gonna make coffee and i'll be right back
oh that's better so one of the biggest problems of van life especially in the winter time is
condensation if condensation builds up into your campervan and damp gets into your bedding on
your clothes it's just horrible it just feels horrible all that dampness and the
real real bad thing is if it does get into your bedding and into your mattress the chances are
you're going to get black mold build up in your mattress or even build up in your insulation if
you haven't got an insulation barrier the worst thing you want in your van is black mould and the
reason for this is because those black mold spores get into the air that you're breathing
and eventually that's going to end up in your lungs and you will end up with a lung infection
and trust me once you get that lung infection things are never the same again i got infected
last year last winter I got a really bad lung infection and I'm still not right now and at
the time it was terrifying i had antibiotics i had all sorts of drugs getting pumped into me
to try and get rid of this infection in my lungs and i was terrified i thought i was dying
and even now i'm still not right i can still feel this weird feeling in my lungs i just know things
aren't right so uh yeah condensation is a real big thing for me to try and get rid of it and try and
minimize it as much as possible and as you can see i've got glass all around my camper van and condensation
is attracted to glass well for me i don't think that's a bad thing because at least you know
where it's going and you can get rid of it you can get it off your glass rather than it getting
in your bedding getting in your clothes getting in your walls, it's all attracted to your glass so
all we got to do is get rid of it now one way i do minimize that condensation is by using
this little gadget down here which i've only just brought this by the way and uh let me show you i
think it's terrific so i'll start by showing you this and then i'll show you my front windscreen
anyway let me show you the wrong windscreen first we'll scrap that idea look at this
so there's my front windscreen i'll show you how i'll get rid of all that in a minute
first of all let's take a look at this little gadget down here
so this is my dehumidifier now the remarkable thing about this little dehumidifier
apart from the fact that it actually works as you can see this is from last night
actually two nights i didn't empty it last night so that's two nights worth in there
but like i say the other remarkable thing about this other than it actually does work is it runs
off of usb and i run this off with my power oak and the reason i do that is because i don't want
to run down my nice new batteries and bob's very kind so let me take this power road into the house
during the day i charge it up then at night i use the power oak to power my dehumidifier
it does actually work i was a bit skeptical whether or not it would work
because it only runs off a usb but um yeah as you can see it does work really well
really pleased with that so that's one way i keep my condensation down is by using a USB
dehumidifier but here's a real neat trick look at this gadget i've got up the front
talking to gadgets it was gadget john that recommended this have a look at this so here
we are in the front of my van in the cab and uh you can't see because you ran the wrong way
well take a look at this this is worse than i thought it would be actually
i'm quite surprised well actually i'm quite pleased how bad this is because it gives
you gives me a chance to demonstrate this great gadget that i've brought this is a carca a karcher
window vacuum and what this does is it vacuums the moisture off the glass i try and
do this one-handed it does take a little bit of a technique to use this i've discovered and you have
to sweep it up like that and then tip it upside down we'll wait for the water to go down inside
trying to hold the camera and do this at the same time but i've got to say this thing is a
real game changer it really does give me the confidence that i'm not going to get too much
moisture in my camper van over the winter period because this just gets rid of it i'll show you this
give it a good sweep just watch this see the water running down inside the vessel
yeah it takes a bit of a technique at first when i first got it i was just going up and up like this
and water was going everywhere but you do need to kind of sweep it up and then tip
it up like that and then let the water fill inside the chamber the container
like this see it running down the front so every morning i do this every morning
this is my every morning routine to clean all my the water off the front
it's on the second mark already now the side windows i'll do as well same thing
and you'll notice i've got my windows open a little bit at the top
these side windows i'll start here and i'll go up to that corner
it's a bit difficult really to do this i'm doing it a bit handy just change ends nice battle
like i'll say this thing is unbelievable
anyone that lives in their camper van during the wintertime needs to get one of these
once again i want to say thank you to gadget john for recommending this to me
i really appreciate it mate
hopefully with this in my arsenal of tackling condensation i won't get sick this year
so that's the front done now we're gonna do is the back as well
so now i've done the front i'll simply do these as well look at that this is
incredible
now unfortunately this is a little bit too big to do my side windows at the back
so to do the side windows i'll simply use a towel
also it's a good idea to go around the outside with the towel just to get rid of anything
i really do try and get rid of as much moisture as i possibly out my campervan
there you go
there you are look at that look how much water is in this now normally i
would just tip this out in into the road but today i'm going to tip it into a cup
just to see how much we've collected i was about to empty it then it occurred to me there we go
so this is all off my front windscreen and my side screen
imagine that working its way into your bedding
it's about half inch deep it's a bit dirty going in the sink
now for those of you that are interested i'll put both these products in my amazon storefront and
the link for that you can find in the description of this video i do hope you found this video
useful mildly entertaining thanks for watching have a good day for now so how do we tackle
condensation in a campervan it's quite simple well it's not simple it's quite difficult actually to be honest