The summer season is here! The kids are off school, the pools are open, and it is HUMID. With the air so dense with humidity outside, your home can be the only sanctuary from the imposing heat and stickiness. Utilizing a dehumidifier in your home ensures your comfort, protects you and your family’s health, and protects your property and belongings.
How does humidity affect my health?
High humidity allows dust mites, bacteria, and mildew to thrive and proliferate. It’s no surprise that these irritants can cause problems when plentiful in the air you breathe. Excess moisture also leads to mold formation, which can release harsh particles that can be hazardous if breathed in. By eliminating excess moisture from the air, dehumidifiers allow you to avoid allergic or harsh reactions entirely, instead of having to sneeze or sniffle all day. Ensuring your home is at an appropriate level of humidity keeps your air clean and you and your family healthy.
How does humidity affect my home?
As mentioned before, mold and mildew thrive in wet, humid environments. Humidity allows mold in your home to develop and proliferate, bringing poor air, unpleasant odor, potential damage to your home. Utilizing a dehumidifier to remove excess moisture from the air, this development can be stopped, protecting you from all of the risks and annoyances that mold can bring to your home and its air.
With high humidity, mold and mildew also cause an unpleasant, dank odor to fill your home. The humidity carries and allows this odor to grow, not only making your air unclean, but smelly too.
How does humidity affect my belongings?
Thick humidity causes condensation, which brings with it several dangers for your possessions: especially things like books, posters, pictures, and instruments. Humidity can also cause major malfunctions in the electronic devices we trust to assist our living every single day. Dehumidifiers will reduce the moisture in the air that can potentially ruin your expensive or irreplaceable belongings.
What happens when humidity is too low?
Though not a concern at this point in the year, it’s also very important to ensure that in the winter months, your home’s humidity doesn’t dip too far low. Low humidity makes it more difficult to breath and can health cause problems like chapped lips, dry skin, sore throats, and nosebleeds. It can also affect your furniture and flooring — particularly if it’s wood. The lack of moisture can dry them out and lead to cracking and permanent damage.
How to keep your humidity ideal
The best way to avoid these issues in the summertime is to install a dehumidifier in your home. Dehumidifiers remove the excess moisture from the air that allows mold, bacteria, and condensation to occur. One of our own office workers recently had her own Aprilaire E80 dehumidifier installed, and she’s already seeing incredible results in her home!
“I finally got my E80 up and running this last weekend. Within 12 hours, it had lowered the humidity in my basement by 10%! Within 24 hours the relative humidity went from 68% to 51%. We usually turn the temp down to 68 at night cuz we like it cool. With the lower humidity, 70 degrees felt just fine.”
Call us at (913) 535-8002 or use the button on our front page to schedule an appointment with Top Notch today to ensure your home’s air is comfortable and healthy. Free yourself from odor, allergies, and risk to your possessions: install a dehumidifier!
