WEBVTT - Why use a humidifier in your home in the winter?

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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to Brain Stop front house, stuff works dot Com

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<v Speaker 1>where smart happens. Hi Marshall Brain with today's question, why

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<v Speaker 1>use a humidifier in your home in the winter or

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<v Speaker 1>what are the advantages of using a humidifier in the winter.

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<v Speaker 1>We have a home humidifier sitting in the living room

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<v Speaker 1>here at the Brain Household. It's what's called a whole

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<v Speaker 1>house humidifier or a console humidifier, and it's about the

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<v Speaker 1>size of a small suitcase. It's big enough to put

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<v Speaker 1>about five gallons of water into the air every day,

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<v Speaker 1>and it's loud enough because of the fan that it's

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<v Speaker 1>easy to notice. A friend stopped by this week and

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<v Speaker 1>asked why we use a humidifier like this. Here's why.

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<v Speaker 1>This morning is a typical morning in North Carolina. It's bright, clear,

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<v Speaker 1>twenty three degrees fahrenheit outside, and very dry. If we

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<v Speaker 1>were not using the humidifier, it would be bone dry

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<v Speaker 1>inside the house less than twenty humidity. That kind of

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<v Speaker 1>low humidity would have at least three noticeable effects on us. First,

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<v Speaker 1>there would be a lot of static electricity, a lot

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<v Speaker 1>of static electricity that uncomfortable static pop would be happening

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<v Speaker 1>all the time whenever you touch a door, knob or

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<v Speaker 1>anything metal. Second, the feeling known as cotton mouth would

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<v Speaker 1>be common at night and in the morning. The lack

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<v Speaker 1>of humidity dries out your mouth, your throat, and your

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<v Speaker 1>nasal passages. It also causes dry skin and chapped lips. Third,

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<v Speaker 1>wood in the house would shrink as it dried out.

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<v Speaker 1>Things like wood molding, wood floors, and wood furniture would

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<v Speaker 1>be affected. By using a humidifier, all three of these

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<v Speaker 1>problems disappear. You can either go with a whole house

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<v Speaker 1>console kind of unit like we're using, or smaller units

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<v Speaker 1>in separate rooms. It's possible to get smaller humidifiers that

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<v Speaker 1>are completely silent. Another possibility is adding a humidifier to

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<v Speaker 1>your furnace, although that tends to get more expensive. The

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<v Speaker 1>advantage is that you don't have to refill the water

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<v Speaker 1>every day and it completely covers the whole house. And

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<v Speaker 1>obvious question is why does the air get so dry

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<v Speaker 1>inside the house in the winter. The air outside right

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<v Speaker 1>now has sixty humidity according to our little weather station

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<v Speaker 1>here at the brain household, forty is the recommended level

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<v Speaker 1>indoors therefore sounds great. So what's the problem when cold

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<v Speaker 1>air comes inside and gets heated, the humidity in the

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<v Speaker 1>air changes dramatically. For example, say you have a cubic

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<v Speaker 1>meter of air outside, it might only be able to

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<v Speaker 1>hold a couple of grams of moisture at twenty three

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<v Speaker 1>degrees fahrenheit. When you heat it and bring it inside, however,

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<v Speaker 1>it's capacity for holding moisture rises a lot. It might

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<v Speaker 1>be able to hold four or five times more moisture

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<v Speaker 1>once it's heated up to room temperature, so that cold

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<v Speaker 1>air comes inside with very little moisture inside of it.

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<v Speaker 1>It gets heated, it's capacity for holding without moisture rises

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<v Speaker 1>dramatically and the relative humidity goes down into the basement

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<v Speaker 1>fifteen or that's why it's so dry in your house

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<v Speaker 1>in the winter. For more on this and thousands of

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