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Speaker 1: use a humidifier in your home in the winter or
Speaker 1: what are the advantages of using a humidifier in the winter.
Speaker 1: We have a home humidifier sitting in the living room
Speaker 1: here at the Brain Household. It's what's called a whole
Speaker 1: house humidifier or a console humidifier, and it's about the
Speaker 1: size of a small suitcase. It's big enough to put
Speaker 1: about five gallons of water into the air every day,
Speaker 1: and it's loud enough because of the fan that it's
Speaker 1: easy to notice. A friend stopped by this week and
Speaker 1: asked why we use a humidifier like this. Here's why.
Speaker 1: This morning is a typical morning in North Carolina. It's bright, clear,
Speaker 1: twenty three degrees fahrenheit outside, and very dry. If we
Speaker 1: were not using the humidifier, it would be bone dry
Speaker 1: inside the house less than twenty humidity. That kind of
Speaker 1: low humidity would have at least three noticeable effects on us. First,
Speaker 1: there would be a lot of static electricity, a lot
Speaker 1: of static electricity that uncomfortable static pop would be happening
Speaker 1: all the time whenever you touch a door, knob or
Speaker 1: anything metal. Second, the feeling known as cotton mouth would
Speaker 1: be common at night and in the morning. The lack
Speaker 1: of humidity dries out your mouth, your throat, and your
Speaker 1: nasal passages. It also causes dry skin and chapped lips. Third,
Speaker 1: wood in the house would shrink as it dried out.
Speaker 1: Things like wood molding, wood floors, and wood furniture would
Speaker 1: be affected. By using a humidifier, all three of these
Speaker 1: problems disappear. You can either go with a whole house
Speaker 1: console kind of unit like we're using, or smaller units
Speaker 1: in separate rooms. It's possible to get smaller humidifiers that
Speaker 1: are completely silent. Another possibility is adding a humidifier to
Speaker 1: your furnace, although that tends to get more expensive. The
Speaker 1: advantage is that you don't have to refill the water
Speaker 1: every day and it completely covers the whole house. And
Speaker 1: obvious question is why does the air get so dry
Speaker 1: inside the house in the winter. The air outside right
Speaker 1: now has sixty humidity according to our little weather station
Speaker 1: here at the brain household, forty is the recommended level
Speaker 1: indoors therefore sounds great. So what's the problem when cold
Speaker 1: air comes inside and gets heated, the humidity in the
Speaker 1: air changes dramatically. For example, say you have a cubic
Speaker 1: meter of air outside, it might only be able to
Speaker 1: hold a couple of grams of moisture at twenty three
Speaker 1: degrees fahrenheit. When you heat it and bring it inside, however,
Speaker 1: it's capacity for holding moisture rises a lot. It might
Speaker 1: be able to hold four or five times more moisture
Speaker 1: once it's heated up to room temperature, so that cold
Speaker 1: air comes inside with very little moisture inside of it.
Speaker 1: It gets heated, it's capacity for holding without moisture rises
Speaker 1: dramatically and the relative humidity goes down into the basement
Speaker 1: fifteen or that's why it's so dry in your house
Speaker 1: in the winter. For more on this and thousands of
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