Kibkom North Cyprus Forum

We have problem with kitchen cupboards, has anyone tried putting air vents in the walls that the cupboards are attached to and does it help?

I have a small de-humidifier in one of my kitchen cupboards which works well and draws out a surprising amount of water.

I use the dehumidifiers from Pound Shop in virtually every cupboard and they do draw out water very well.

I have put a little bit of blu tack on the inside of the doors where they close. Just lets a little bit of circulation in. Found in the kitchen it has worked well. Just need a solution for the top cupboards in the wardrobe. The pound shop dehumidifiers overflowed between Jan and March when we were away!

We luckily tiled our wall to the floor which prevented damp especially when the kitchen flooded. Unfortunately here they either put the pipes in the wall or through the cupboards therefore allowing the rear panel of the cupboard to touch the wall. The up side you get a bigger cupboard here than in the uk where they allow the pipes to be surface mounted behind the cupboards.

Every night before we go to bed or before we go out for the day we open all the kitchen cupboards, this helps to minimise the humidity. Next year though, all the units are coming out and the walls will be tiled. It sounds a bit extreme but our worktops need replacing anyway and the kitchen tiles are 'tired' so may as well do the job properly. Who would have thought that the buiders would have put wooden units against a bare, rendered wall. Bloody amateurs!

You forget that the week before they were building houses, they were ploughing fields with a couple of oxen or picking oranges, olives or grapes!!

Owl Lady wrote:You forget that the week before they were building houses, they were ploughing fields with a couple of oxen or picking oranges, olives or grapes!!

As told to me by an English Cypriot if you were to go to Karsiyaka square and ask for a brain surgeon the café customers and bar staff would put their hands up.