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Installing a humidifier in your home to control humidity levels creates a healthier indoor environment for your home. It improves the efficiency and comfort of your home.<\/p>\n
A humidifier comes with a humidistat that you can adjust to control the humidity levels in your home. Most home users are accustomed to temperature levels and are less knowledgeable on humidity levels.<\/p>\n
This makes humidistat settings very confusing. However, adjusting the humidistat to the right settings should be as easy as setting the thermostat, despite you having to set this device only twice every year.<\/p>\n
Regulating indoor humidity concentration makes the air within your home feel warmer or cooler. During the cold season, natural humidity in air is very low.<\/p>\n
Therefore, you must adjust the humidistat settings to create a suitable indoor environment for your home. There are a few necessary steps that you can follow when setting your humidistat. However, your eventual humidistat settings should be based on your preference.<\/p>\n
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Humidistat is installed in a home to monitor and report dependable levels of humidity found in the air. Ideally, they are installed near other devices responsible for ensuring a home gets the required amount of humidity. Some of the tools where humidistat is used include dehumidifiers or stand-alone humidifiers.<\/p>\n
Before your set your humidistat, ensure that your humidifier is well-positioned. It should be in a position where there is enough flow of air.<\/p>\n
A lot of furnace humidifiers have an inbuilt damper fitted on the ductwork to control how air flows into the unit. In warmer seasons, the damper is always closed because of the inactivity of the humidifier.<\/p>\n
When the cold season comes, the lever found on the damper is pushed to facilitate a steady flow of air into the humidifier. Ideally, the correct position of the humidifier will have appropriate labels either winter, open, or heating.<\/p>\n
After ensuring that your humidifier is receiving sufficient airflow, proceed to set your humidifier by choosing appropriate humidistat settings for your home. Generally, a healthy and comfortable indoor humidity should be between 30-55%.<\/p>\n
A lot of homeowners prefer having humidistat settings between 35-45% because these humidity levels give excellent results. You can try out different humidistat settings to achieve different indoor humidity levels and then choose the best settings for your home.<\/p>\n
You, however, have to pay close attention to the windows of your when setting humidity levels, especially when you raise the humidistat settings. When water begins to form on your home’s window, you should consider lowering humidistat settings by several percentages.<\/p>\n
The outside temperature is a crucial consideration when setting your humidistat. When it is very cold outside your house, humidistat settings tend to be very high.<\/p>\n
In this case, the high temperature and humidity inside your home combine with the cold temperature outside, which initiates the process of condensation. Condensation results in the dampening of walls and windows in your home. This dampness can damage the floor and walls close to the window.<\/p>\n
When condensation begins to build on your home’s windows, lower the humidistat settings to create a balance between the cold outdoor temperature and indoor high temperature and humidity.<\/p>\n