Hello,
I am renovating my old kitchen and because the walls were so poor and ugly, I was advised to put up regular plasterboard on the walls. A carpenter has now glued these up, joints plastered, and painted twice with white Jotun Lady Balance. The apartment/condominium I live in is in an old house and the kitchen lacks windows and has very poor ventilation, almost non-existent. There is also no possibility to install a kitchen fan with extraction as this is not allowed, only carbon filters are permitted. I was told the other day by someone that it is therefore unsuitable to have regular plasterboard in this room because moisture from cooking, washing up, etc., can cause the paper that holds the plasterboards together to be affected by moisture, leading to mold. What do you think, is it safest to tear down and replace the plasterboards with, for example, fiber plasterboards or possibly skim coat or apply gypsum plaster on the walls instead to avoid moisture problems? It will steam a lot when, for example, boiling and cooking food and all that moisture has to go somewhere.
Thank you very much for your help.
I am renovating my old kitchen and because the walls were so poor and ugly, I was advised to put up regular plasterboard on the walls. A carpenter has now glued these up, joints plastered, and painted twice with white Jotun Lady Balance. The apartment/condominium I live in is in an old house and the kitchen lacks windows and has very poor ventilation, almost non-existent. There is also no possibility to install a kitchen fan with extraction as this is not allowed, only carbon filters are permitted. I was told the other day by someone that it is therefore unsuitable to have regular plasterboard in this room because moisture from cooking, washing up, etc., can cause the paper that holds the plasterboards together to be affected by moisture, leading to mold. What do you think, is it safest to tear down and replace the plasterboards with, for example, fiber plasterboards or possibly skim coat or apply gypsum plaster on the walls instead to avoid moisture problems? It will steam a lot when, for example, boiling and cooking food and all that moisture has to go somewhere.
Thank you very much for your help.
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In bathrooms with poor/nonexistent waterproofing, it can sometimes become so humid behind the tiles that it may mold there, but it shouldn't get that humid in a kitchen. You don't have to cook pasta every day to the point where it's foggy or the moisture condenses everywhere. If it does get that humid occasionally, you can easily wipe off the tiles above the stove. Make sure to keep the door open after cooking as well, and it should be fine.
But you can always check with neighbors if anyone has had mold problems in their kitchens.
In bathrooms with poor/nonexistent waterproofing, it can sometimes become so humid behind the tiles that it may mold there, but it shouldn't get that humid in a kitchen. You don't have to cook pasta every day to the point where it's foggy or the moisture condenses everywhere. If it does get that humid occasionally, you can easily wipe off the tiles above the stove. Make sure to keep the door open after cooking as well, and it should be fine.
But you can always check with neighbors if anyone has had mold problems in their kitchens.