Heating your house without mold

[Guest guest]

Is there a way to heat your house without drying it out????

Every way I investigate to humidify my home in winter gets moldy. I

went to Home Depot to buy a water panel/pad for the Aprilaire that is

built in to my furnace system and every water panel they had already

had mold growing on it. Perhaps whole shipment got some water dripped

on it. It was the softer pads that hold moisture better. A hard wire

pad is standard equipment but they were out of those. I have one on

order now. However old one I took out from last season had mold on it

also. Not much though, but still!! Do radiaant heaters dry out the

air also or those floor board heaters? I would think anything that

heats the air, dries it but it seems I heard that radiant heaters left

more moisture in the air.

[Guest guest]

Barb,

If you are looking at the metal mesh pads for flow-through, trickle-type

humidifiers, the aluminum mesh is treated with a mineral coating to reduce the

surface tension of the water so that it will spread out and evaporate more

readily. The coating on the new humidifier pads is mineral and not mold, so you

don't have to worry. The Aprilaire trickle humidifier is one of the only ones

that I have not found mold on. The sponge evaporative pad humidifiers with

water reservoirs are always contaminated.

(See: http://www.myhouseiskillingme.com/humidifiers.htm for an example.)

Raising the temperature of air reduces the relative humidity, no matter what.

But forced hot air increase the air velocity, facilitating evaporation and

making the air seem dryer.

Jeff May

www.mayindoorair.com

www.myhouseiskillingme.com

>From: " barb1283 " <barb1283@...>

>Subject: Heating your house without mold

>Is there a way to heat your house without drying it out????

>Every way I investigate to humidify my home in winter gets moldy. I

>went to Home Depot to buy a water panel/pad for the Aprilaire that is

>built in to my furnace system and every water panel they had already

>had mold growing on it. Perhaps whole shipment got some water dripped

>on it. It was the softer pads that hold moisture better. A hard wire

>pad is standard equipment but they were out of those. I have one on

>order now. However old one I took out from last season had mold on it

>also. Not much though, but still!! Do radiaant heaters dry out the

>air also or those floor board heaters? I would think anything that

>heats the air, dries it but it seems I heard that radiant heaters left

>more moisture in the air.

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Jeff@...