Can we talk about how Atlanta summer humidity just destroys wooden window frames?

I noticed it this morning when I was trying to close my bedroom window. The frame is all swollen and sticky from the moisture. Back in 2018 when I bought this house, the windows moved smooth as butter. Now after five summers of this humid air, I'm looking at having to sand and repaint all four of them. Anyone else deal with this every year around July?

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parkerb7515d ago

...and it's honestly pathetic how we just accept this stuff as normal. Like we've been building houses for centuries and somehow we still can't make a window frame that doesn't turn into a sponge the second the air gets thick. I've got the same problem with my front door every August. It swells up so bad I have to shoulder-check it just to get it closed. Nobody talks about how this is a design failure, not just a weather thing. We've got the tech to make windows out of materials that don't warp and rot, but they cost three times as much so we all just keep buying painted wood and pretending it's fine.

the_cora15d ago

Load the door with a running start every August like it's an old friend who forgot how to open. Built a house in 2018 with composite trim everywhere because I got sick of replacing rotten wood every five years. Funny how the builders all rolled their eyes at me until last month when my neighbor's cedar fence panel literally fell off its hinges from humidity.