Your Home’s Ideal Humidity and How to Maintain It

November 14, 2023

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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What to do When Humidity is Unbearable

August 19, 2019

Humidity is often among the more uncomfortable aspects of summer, and it can be downright unbearable at times. It often forces you to crank the AC just to feel reasonably at ease. With that in mind, let us consider some of the other steps that you can take to increase your comfort. Have the AC Inspected for Optimal Performance has served Dayton, OH, and the surrounding areas since 1949. We are a proud Carrier factory-authorized dealer that often recommends Carrier air conditioners and heat pumps due to how efficiently they combat humidity. We also recommend seasonal AC tune-ups, and if it has been a while, then we advise an immediate inspection in order to rule out that the excess humidity is caused by an underperforming AC. Ceiling Fans and Exhaust Fans Exhaust fans are necessary for all rooms where higher humidity is to be expected, such as bathrooms and kitchens. Ideally, every room should have a return vent and a ceiling fan, and you can use additional fans on a temporary basis to help you feel cooler. Whole-Home Dehumidification If high humidity is a consistent problem in your house, a whole-home humidifier may be the answer. Such a unit can...

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