Winter tends to turn your home into a desert.
The cold season outside demands you turn the heat on inside, and all that heated air means dryer air. It can be difficult to balance the heat and humidity in your home. No one wants mold or mildew that comes with moist, warm places, chapped lips, papery skin, and other health impacts of dry air. Consider a whole-house humidifier to solve these problems. Keep reading to learn more about the benefits of having a whole-house humidifier in your new furnace installation.
What is a Whole-Home Humidifier?
The glory of a whole-house or whole-home humidifier is that it plugs right into your heating and cooling system. Heating your home typically ends up drying out your air. Your whole-home humidifier adds water vapor into your air through your duct system. You control the humidity and temperature level in your home with your thermostat.
Benefit #1: Improve Your Family’s Health
The first and most important benefit of whole-house humidity control is that it will help improve your family’s health. This system lessens respiratory problems and allergies. With more moisture in the air, the likelihood of catching a cold, including the flu, and getting an infection also drops.
Benefit #2: Feel More Comfortable in Your Home
Imagine feeling an itch but not pinpointing where or how to scratch it. Now imagine that itch going away naturally. A whole-house humidifier will make your body feel more comfortable - something everyone wants at home. Dry skin, a scratchy throat, asthma, and other symptoms become less impactful with a higher moisture level in your home.
Benefit #3: Save the Environment (and Money)
Let’s keep going with that personal comfort in your home idea. Warmth comes from more than just the temperature—ask anyone in a lush, forested area. Every heating degree you drop on your thermostat will save you money. With more humidity, your home will feel warmer even though you won’t need a high temperature, saving your heating system energy and money.
Benefit #4: Protect Your Home
Dried-out air hurts you, but did you know it also hurts your home? Hardwood floors can crack when they get too dry. Paint will chip, and walls will warp when there isn’t enough moisture in the air. Everything works better when there is a healthy amount of moisture in the air.
Get a Whole-House Humidifier Installed in Your Home by Trusted Professionals
A whole-house humidifier will help you, your family, and your house live more comfortably. Trusted professionals like those at Heaney Plumbing & Heating can easily install this addition into your existing HVAC system. Our team has been in the business for more than 40 years. Give us a call today to bring our experience to your home.