• Low humidity makes you prone to contract colds, flu and respiratory ailments. Viruses of cold and flu flourish in low-humid ambience.
• Low humidity has a cracking effect on your furniture. It will cause your wall paint, wooden furniture, and hardwood floors to crack
• It also means an increased energy cost; it will make you feel cold at a lower temperature as a result you will crank your thermostat high
• Beside this it will cause bloody noses, dry and itchy nose and eyes, sore throats
• Cracked and itchy skin
• Painful static shocks
The best way to increase moisture level in a too dry house is to buy a whole house humidifier. Here are the advantages that whole house humidifier will offer-
• The whole house humidifier attaches itself to your central heating and cooling system; it will supply humidity in form of water vapour which gets mixed with the air and is circulated in the whole house. Portable units humidify individual rooms. You will need to buy a quite a few of them to moisten the whole house.
• The devices like hygrometers monitor the relative humidity level and then supply an appropriate level of moisture in the air.
• A whole house humidifier will stop function when appropriate humidity level has been reached. The portable unit needs to be stopped manually.
• There are evaporative and steam humidifiers these days that prevents minerals from entering the air in your home and potentially into your lungs.
• Maintaining a whole house humidifier is a hassle free job. You can clean in once or twice a year. The water tanks of a portable unit will need to be cleaned and calibrated almost every month to prevent build-up of bacteria.
• A whole humidifier will make you feel warm at normal temperature in winter. As a result you will not need to seat you thermostat too high.