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Moisture inside my home fills up moisture bucket within a month, and the furniture and anything on the ground has green mildew/mold growing.
When the humidity is high the tile floors on the screened porch are completely water logged (I mean not just a little condensation, the floor looks like it is flooded).
Black mold is growing on the ceiling of the bathroom despite the window being open for ventilation.
If your house is too humid, it's because too much moisture is entering it. To fix that, you need to find the source of the moisture and reduce or eliminate it.
There are lots of places the moisture could be coming from. Humid air might entering your house from your crawlspace or basement (especially if you get water pooling after heavy rains), leaks in your roof, or leaky pipes are all common causes.
Jesus, don't breath too deep, LOL.
The problem is your house is too cold, so it is causing excessive condensation.
So, your choices are either to turn the heat up and make the house a lot warmer, like 80-degrees +...
Or you can get an industrial strength, whole-house dehumidifier, and I can tell you that thing will suck down electricity like nobody's business. You will have the Feds raiding you because they think are running a grow house if you install one of those things.
Another strategy would be to use better air management. The idea is to restrict the flow of air into the house. For this to work you have to have a really tightly sealed house, so if it is not new construction you can forget this. If it IS new construction, try to find out where air is infiltrating and carefully control it and dehumidify it.
