Have you wondered how your dehumidifier works? A dehumidifier’s purpose is to decrease humidity in your home. Humidity can be best described as that muggy feeling you have on a warm day, almost like you’re swimming with no physical water around you. When you reach 100% relative humidity, the chance for rain increases.
How Humidity Impacts Home Comfort
When you are in increased humidity you are not as comfortable as you can be. Here are a few ways that humidity impacts your home comfort:
- When the air in your home is too humid, your sweat cant evaporate because the air is already heavily saturated, leaving you more uncomfortable.
- High humidity causes problems for people who have breathing issues such as asthma.
- Excess humidity in your home makes a perfect breeding ground for mold which is dangerous for your breathing.
- Termites and other pests love to make a humid home their own.
Controlling Humidity in Your Home
Your air conditioner acts partially as a dehumidifier when it is cooling your home. Air in a dehumidifier passes over a series of cooling coils (the evaporator) and then over a set of heating coils (the condenser). It gets sent back into the room as drier air removing humidity.
Ideal humidity at 90 degrees Fahrenheit is 31-41%. That is the ideal comfortable humidity for most people. Humidity of 42-52% starts to get uncomfortable for most people. Humidity of 52-60% is very humid and uncomfortable for most people. 62% and up is very uncomfortable.
Dehumidifiers help lessen the load on your air conditioner making your air conditioner last longer and you save money on your energy bills. Bartlett Heating and Air sells and installs dehumidifiers to make your home more comfortable so contact us today!
