Top 3 Tips for Normalizing Humidity Levels

Humidity levels are important factors that can not only effect your health, but also your home. Humidity can damage household components year round, causing them to freeze, stain, leak, and rot. It can also be the root for mold to grow.

To prevent your property from being destroyed it is important to keep the humidity in your home is maintained.

The average home should have a humidity of about 30% to 40%, and it is important to keep your home's humidity between these percentages. Below are the top three tips for normalizing the humidity levels in your home.

Seal Air Leaks:

Outside air is one of the biggest factors that can effect the humidity of your home. The weather is constantly changing and dry and wet air that it brings can easily find its way into your home if there are air leaks.

Check around all your windows and doors to make sure that they are air tight. If any leaks are found closing them off takes no time at all. Sealing any leaks will greatly diminish any influence the weather has on your home's humidity levels and will also save you money on your heating a cooling bill.

Conduct Capillary Tests Frequently:

A capillary test is designed to find how moisture is seeping into your house. By drying and then covering a leak with a transparent barrier your can tell where the water is coming from.

If it is wet on the underside against a wall or floor, the humidity is coming from the outdoors and you should try and find where the air is leaking in from. If it is wet on the over-side then the humidity is from the air in your home and you should purchase a dehumidifier. This test should be done twice a year in the late fall and late spring when objects contract and expand from the changes in heat.

Buy a Humidifier or Dehumidifier:

If you have determined that the humidity levels are from the air in your home and not the outside levels, a humidifier or dehumidifier can help solve your problem. These appliances have a range of prices that can fit anyone's budget and will remove or add moisture to the air. Both will have to be checked regularly.

You will have to keep removing or adding water for both the humidifier and dehumidifier respectfully. After about a week you should be able to notice a difference in the humidity of your home.

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