How to Manage Your Indoor Dry Air During the Fall/Winter

Our team of home comfort specialists can help you battle your home’s low indoor humidity. Of course, this is our first recommendation but it makes sense! There are numerous moving parts to your home’s HVAC system (especially on homes with state-of-the-art systems). Our home comfort specialists will be able to properly assess the different aspects of your home and pinpoint where improvements can be made.

The most common cause of severe indoor dryness is having air leakage from your home. The cold outdoor climate in the fall and winter months will naturally be dryer than the air inside your home. So if your indoor humidity feels just like outside during the colder season, it is likely that the humidity is escaping from your home.

Where do air leaks come from? Think of all the areas in your home that could lead outside. Start with the doors, windows, basement walls, recessed lights, dryer vents, and more of that nature!

Have you come to this blog post hoping for an immediate remedy? Don’t worry we have got you covered! The following “homeowner hacks” will mask the problem rather than fix it; however, they will provide some level of relief if the dry air conditions are becoming unbearable.

1. Add More House Plants
Plants add moisture to the air as they naturally process through the water that you give to them. House plants can be one part of your cold season strategy!

2. Hang Your Clothes to Dry
Instead of using the dryer, try hanging up your wet clothes to dry. The water will evaporate out of the clothing and into the air of your home.

3. Cook on the Stove-top
This is perhaps the most obvious homeowner hack. Cooking anything that requires boiling water on the stove-top is the fastest way to add evaporated moisture to the air in your home.

We hope this blog post has shed some light on why you may experience low indoor humidity every time the colder seasons roll around! If you are dreading this upcoming fall and winter season because of this, don’t hesitate to call us! We will get a home comfort specialist out to your Windsor-Essex home and get you comfortable again in no time.