Your Home’s Ideal Humidity and How to Maintain It
Maintaining balanced humidity in your Dayton, OH home is key to protecting your indoor air quality (IAQ). Having too much or too little moisture in your indoor air can negatively impact your health and diminish the integrity of your windows, doors, drywall, and more. The following is everything you need to know about establishing and maintaining ideal humidity. The Ideal Indoor Humidity for Dayton, OH Expressed as a percentage, relative humidity measures moisture vapor in the air in relation to the amount of moisture required for saturation. In Dayton, the optimum target is 38%. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the ideal relative humidity for homes throughout the nation is between 30% and 50%. Other sources place this range between 40% and 60%. How to Know if Your Home Is too Humid Problems with indoor humidity quickly make themselves apparent. If you have too much moisture in your indoor air, you might notice beads of condensation on your windows and walls, and your living environment may feel clammy or muggy, even when your HVAC system is on. Although heaters and air conditioners extract excess moisture from the indoor air, they can’t always combat overly humid conditions on their...
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