What should your home humidity levels be set at each season?
Humidity levels can be a big deal in a home. Too little humidity can cause damage to your house, irritate your skin/eyes/sinuses or dry out your plants. But too much humidity can cause condensation on your windows, mold in your walls and even moisture damage.
(Side note: the reason I’m emailing about this topic is because my humidifier recently went down for a couple of weeks and my whole family noticed a huge difference…our skin was drier and itchier, we were getting shocked all the time and I noticed our wood shrinking in some spots of the house.)
So what levels are best at the various times of the year?
- If you have a humidifier on your furnace, here is a quick guide for what the settings should be for various outside temperatures.
| Outside Temperature |
Recommended RH |
| +40 F |
45% |
| +30 F |
40% |
| +20 F |
35% |
| +10 F |
30% |
| 0 F |
25% |
| -10 F |
30% |
| -20 F |
15% |
- If you do not have a humidifier on your furnace, here is a great article that will tell you how to measure the humidity levels and things you can do to change the humidity at different times of the year.
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