What Is Relative Humidity and Why Is It Important to Your Home?
Expert advice on what relative humidity is, how humidity affects your comfort, and ways to humidify or dehumidify to control humidity. In This Article: What Is Relative Humidity? Your Comfort and Relative Humidity Relative Humidity in Your Home How to Combat Humidity Problems Although we often think of home comfort as being a factor of […]
How Humidifiers Work
In This Article: Evaporative Humidifiers Cool Mist Impeller Humidifiers Steam Humidifiers Ultrasonic Humidifiers An expert guide to how humidifiers work, containing helpful information on evaporative, cool mist impeller, steam, and ultrasonic humidifiers. As discussed in the Humidifiers Buying Guide, humidifiers come as both room-size table-top and consoles and as whole-house units that attach to the […]
How to Fix a Humidifier
Repair humidifier problems yourself with this expert, step-by-step DIY advice. If your humidifier doesn’t work at all or barely humidifies, this is the place to begin. In This Article: Humidifier Does Not Work Humidifier Works But Not Well Humidifier Makes Noise Humidifier Leaks Humidifier Smells Bad Like all appliances, sometimes humidifiers do not function properly […]
Home Humidifiers Buying Guide
In This Article: Buying a Central Humidifier Buying a Room Humidifier When your home’s interior humidity level—the amount of water vapor in the air—drops too low, interior air can become uncomfortable, damaging, and downright unhealthful. Dry air draws moisture out of everything—from your eyes, lips, and skin to the carpets and furniture. The respiratory system, […]