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How to Add Humidity to Your Home

If you’re counting the days to spring, chances are it’s more than a desire for warmer outdoor temperatures that’s motivating you. More daylight, more time spent outdoors, the re-leafing of the landscape, one step closer to summer – what’s not to like about spring?!

Then again, human beings are motivated by more than just what lies ahead. Sometimes our strongest motivations stems from things we’re eager to leave behind. And this time of year, just about anyone who spends a lot of time at home is sick and tired of dealing with desert-like dry indoor air and all the problems it can cause.

What sorts of problems? Well, try these on for size (even though you probably already are and continue to do so):

• Dry itchy skin
• Frizzy, un-manageable hair
• Bloody noses
• Static electricity so bad, it can send shivers up your spine – quite literally
• Shrinkage and damage to wooden floors, doors, furniture, etc.
• Worsening problems with upper respiratory ailments like asthma, bronchitis, and allergies

If you’re nodding your head in agreement, you’ll want to do anything you can to add moisture, or humidity, to your home for the remainder of this winter. Here are a few simple and practical ways to go about it:

• Hang up at some of your clothes to dry indoors
• Buy some house plants, or add to your collection and place them in strategic locations throughout your house
• Place bowls of water near steam radiators, baseboard heating units, and floor vents – the water will be heated, evaporate more quickly, and help moisturize the air
• Leave the exhaust fan off while you take a shower, and leave the bathroom door open after your shower, thus enabling steam to penetrate other rooms

To add humidity throughout your home – simply and affordably – contact Messmer Mechanical today and ask about a whole-house humidifier, one that can add needed moisture to the air. In fact, you can set amount of relative humidity to what you deem to be the most comfortable setting. Most experts agree 30% – 40% relative humidity is ideal, but inside your home, you’re the expert which makes “ideal” something you get to determine all on your own.