Controlling moisture can make your home more energy-efficient, less costly to heat and cool, more comfortable. Properly controlling moisture in your home will improve the effectiveness of your air sealing and insulation efforts, and these efforts in turn will help control moisture. The best strategies for controlling moisture in your home depend on your climate and how your home is constructed.
Whole-House Dehumidifiers
During hot Summer days, humidity outdoors can be quite uncomfortable. Imagine the same inside your home. It can become downright unbearable, and it also happens during rainy days. Yet the discomfort it brings may be the least of your worries.
Anything higher can cause many common problems associated with too much moisture in the home. The clothing, towels, and linens in your closets will develop a moldy scent. You will start seeing mold spore stains on your ceilings and walls.
Too much humidity in the air you breathe indoors can pose some serious health risks and other issues such as:
- Respiratory infections;
- Spread of allergies;
- The rapid growth of fungi, mildew, microbes and dust mites;
- Warping floorboards, door and window frames, furniture, and damaging other parts of your home; and
- Attracting all sorts of pests.
It’s important to keep in mind how high indoor humidity can promote toxic concentrations of VOPs (volatile organic compounds) in indoor air. Typically, VOCs will off-gas from petroleum-based materials like polyester, acrylic, nylon, and more.
Whole-House Humidifiers
When your indoor air becomes too dry, it can drain your energy and make it feel like something is wearing you down. Some people blame the heat. But often it’s the humidity.
When your home environment becomes too dry, your comfort can end up on thin ice. A humidifier will restore moisture, maximize your comfort and generate an avalanche of advantages for you and your family.
During the cold season when you run your heat, your home can become dry. Aprilaire humidifiers combat dry air for improved health.
Low humidity levels, especially in the winter months can dry out the air which will dry out your skin, cause static electricity, give you chapped lips and dry hands, and most importantly, could dry out the nasal passages which are your body’s first defense in keeping viruses and bacteria from entering your body.
It affects not only you and your family, but it affects your furniture, hardwood floors, trim work, cabinetry, and other items in the home that rely on proper moisture levels. Your health can improve with humidified air.
When the idea of installing a humidifier comes up, many homeowners picture themselves buying a portable humidifier. These are the typical ones you see from big box stores that let you plug them into any conventional outlet.
Every home’s indoor air situation is different, but we believe that just about every homeowner would benefit from humidity control for their indoor air. Installing a whole-house humidifier & dehumidifier can help with that! We are ready to help!