Dry air not only causes skin problems it makes you more susceptible to colds and the flu, but it also causes static which damages your electronic equipment and also causes your furniture to dry out.
1. If you're wondering if your home has too little moisture in the air? Check the wood in your home, too little humidity will cause the wood floors to contract and separate at the seams. Also if you get static shock when you walk across your carpets odds are that you have too little humidity.
2. Buy a humidifier. There are three basic types of portable humidifiers, Warm mist humidifiers heat water and release the warm mist into the air. Steam vaporizers use electrodes to turn the water into steam. And Cool mist humidifiers use fans to turn water into vapor and release it. Because there is no heating element cool mist humidifiers are the safest to have if you have children in your home.
3. For the best efficiency place a portable humidifier on an inside wall closest to a cold air return
4. You can also get console humidifiers that tap directly into a forced air furnace. These units may be a little more difficult to install, but once in place you can be much more efficient since it uses your existing water supply. I hope this helps solve the dry air problems in your home.
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