Cooking usually does it for us
After a chicken dinner when I throw the carcass in a pot to make stock we end up with sweat on all the windows downstairs, so our humidity seems to be just fine. It also means we have crappy old single-pane windows, but that's a whole different problem. -- Drew |
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Nah, get a thermometer with a humidity gauge to tell.
If the humidity is below 50% you could be more comfortable. Cold window panes will have condensation even if it's relatively dry in the house and making your house drier to boot. In our old house w/2500 sq ft, in a day, I had no trouble putting 3-4 gallons of water into the air. It had single pane windows with storm windows for another layer of glass. There are lots of factors of course. Air leaks. opening of doors, etc. brings in air from the outside. Check some relative humidity tables. 80% relative humidity at 30 degrees outside brought inside and heated to 72 degree air has a relative humidity of 17%. Dry! Link. Alex "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." -- Isaac Asimov |
Our furnace humidifier is acting up again.
- (Another Scott)
- (5)
- Dec. 4, 2016, 10:44:21 PM EST
the part of the country you are in do you need a humidifier?
- (boxley)
- (4)
- Dec. 5, 2016, 12:41:22 AM EST
We need both in NoVA.
- (Another Scott)
- (1)
- Dec. 5, 2016, 08:34:26 AM EST
Same here.
-NT
- (malraux)
- Dec. 5, 2016, 01:10:23 PM EST
Cooking usually does it for us
- (drook)
- (1)
- Dec. 5, 2016, 01:15:21 PM EST
Nah, get a thermometer with a humidity gauge to tell.
- (a6l6e6x)
- Dec. 5, 2016, 03:51:25 PM EST
