Why we made Drip Strip
Drip Strip started with a problem most of us just live with: waking up on a cold morning to a windowsill full of water.
It happens every winter. Condensation builds up overnight, runs down the glass, and pools on the sill — leaving water marks, damp carpet, and eventually the kind of mould you really don't want creeping into your walls. We tried towels, cloths, anything we had lying around. Nothing was actually made for the job.
So we made something that was.
Drip Strip is a simple idea: a long, thin strip of premium microfibre, sized to fit neatly along a window sill, designed to do one job well — soak up condensation before it becomes a problem.
It's a small thing. But it's the kind of small thing that saves your sills, your floors, and a fair bit of your morning.
A better way than moisture absorbers
The most common solution to window condensation is a plastic tub of chemical crystals sitting on your sill. Products like DampRid and Hippo — those little boxes filled with calcium chloride that slowly turn to liquid and need to be thrown away and replaced every few weeks.
They work, to a degree. But there are some things worth knowing:
The disposable versions are designed to be discarded and replaced — meaning you're buying plastic packaging over and over, for a problem that exists every single day of winter. That plastic packaging is not biodegradable, and the calcium chloride inside can leach into soil and waterways if not disposed of carefully. These products advise keeping them away from skin, eyes, children and pets — not because they're dramatically dangerous in normal use, but because they're a chemical product, and chemical products come with those warnings for a reason.
Drip Strip is a piece of fabric.
It absorbs the same condensation — the moisture that forms on your windows overnight and drips onto the sill — but instead of filling up with chemical liquid and heading to landfill, you wring it out, hang it up, and use it again tomorrow. And the day after. No crystals, no plastic tub, no disposal instructions, no reordering.
It's a genuinely better solution for a problem that shouldn't require a chemical one.