Why use a humidifier in your home in the winter?

size of a small suitcase. It's big enough to put about five gallons of water into the air every day, and it's loud enough because of the fan that it's easy to notice. A friend stopped by this week and asked why we use a humidifier like this. Here's why. This morning is a typical morning in North Carolina. It's bright, clear, twenty three degrees fahrenheit outside, and very dry. If we were not using the humidifier, it would be bone dry inside the house less than twenty humidity. That kind of

low humidity would have at least three noticeable effects on us. First, there would be a lot of static electricity, a lot of static electricity that uncomfortable static pop would be happening all the time whenever you touch a door, knob or anything metal. Second, the feeling known as cotton mouth would be common at night and in the morning. The lack of humidity dries out your mouth, your throat, and your

nasal passages. It also causes dry skin and chapped lips. Third, wood in the house would shrink as it dried out. Things like wood molding, wood floors, and wood furniture would be affected. By using a humidifier, all three of these problems disappear. You can either go with a whole house console kind of unit like we're using, or smaller units in separate rooms. It's possible to get smaller humidifiers that are completely silent. Another possibility is adding a humidifier to

your furnace, although that tends to get more expensive. The advantage is that you don't have to refill the water every day and it completely covers the whole house. And obvious question is why does the air get so dry inside the house in the winter. The air outside right now has sixty humidity according to our little weather station here at the brain household, forty is the recommended level

indoors therefore sounds great. So what's the problem when cold air comes inside and gets heated, the humidity in the air changes dramatically. For example, say you have a cubic meter of air outside, it might only be able to hold a couple of grams of moisture at twenty three degrees fahrenheit. When you heat it and bring it inside, however,

it's capacity for holding moisture rises a lot. It might be able to hold four or five times more moisture once it's heated up to room temperature, so that cold air comes inside with very little moisture inside of it. It gets heated, it's capacity for holding without moisture rises dramatically and the relative humidity goes down into the basement fifteen or that's why it's so dry in your house in the winter. For more on this and thousands of other topics. Because it how staff works dot com, Jack

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