What Should Normal Indoor Humidity Be?

Colder temps are infamous for creating dry air within your home. Since humidity levels in the U.S. are generally reduced in the fall and winter, drier air can cause in prickly skin, irritated eyes and a raspy throat. 

When you’re running your furnace, it’s important to keep your house’s humidity under control for ideal comfort. Let’s discuss what the correct indoor humidity should be in the U.S. and how you can achieve it. 

The Mayo Clinic advises keeping your residence’s humidity. During this appointment, our Experts will gauge humidity levels, look at your current heating and cooling equipment and provide advice. 

These suggestions can involve a whole-home humidifier. This device works with your furnace to provide level humidity throughout your whole house. It’s a step up from a portable humidifier, which is restricted to humidifying a single room at a time. And these humidifiers can result in a mess, spilling water as you transfer them from room to room. 

4 Flags That Your House’s Indoor Humidity is Off 

When the humidity in your house isn’t in balance, it can cause a couple of issues. Here are several flags that your home’s humidity is too low. 

  1. You aren’t sleeping well. The National Sleep Foundation says extremely dry air can make you more likely to get sick, because your nasal passages get parched. And not feeling well means you usually won’t sleep nicely. The dry air can also cause your throat to feel itchy and make it more complicated for you to slumber. It might also make snoring worse. 
  1. You’re frequently getting shocked. Dry air contributes to additional static electricity. You can keep the static managed by keeping your home’s humidity even. 
  1. Your wood cabinets, flooring or furniture is splintering or seems damaged. Air that’s too arid can damage wooden belongings, since it pulls out moisture. Installing a whole-home humidifier can keep your possessions and house looking great. 
  1. Your skin seems dry and itchy. If you’re needing a lot of cream but your skin still seems itchy when you’re at home, humidity levels may be the problem. Insubstantial humidity can also make your lips peel and contribute to coughing. 

How to Cure Problems Caused by Your Residence’s Dry Air 

As we talked about already, installing a humidifier at 866-397-3787 to schedule your free home comfort assessment now. 

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