Maintaining the correct humidity level at home is important for your health, and a small amount of water can be beneficial, while too much can be harmful to your health.

Recommended relative humidity level

The recommended average relative humidity is between 35% and 45%. This range will provide the best comfort for your home while helping to protect your appliances, wooden furniture, and other items or materials from the destructive effects of dryness or excessive humidity.

Due to the fact that the level of relative humidity actually depends on fluctuations in climate and temperature, an average range is provided here to make it easier to determine. How a household handles humidity depends on many factors, including design, construction, steam retarders, and the airtightness of the building.

What happens when the humidity is too high?

When the humidity in your home is too high, the humid air will be trapped in corners, basements, and other enclosed areas. In the bathroom, water accumulates in the corners, causing difficult to remove mold, which is usually very noticeable in the bathroom. Condensation can also accumulate in windows, causing water droplets to fall on them and the wooden frames to rot. This moisture provides a perfect breeding ground for bacteria

How to remove excessive humidity

The method you choose to remove moisture from the air depends on the severity of the problem, season, and humid location.

If it is winter, a region may benefit from heat such as a basement, heating the space can restore it to an appropriate humidity level.

However, if the humidity is too high, a combination of heating and dehumidifier may be necessary to achieve the appropriate level. A damp bathroom can benefit from open windows or ceiling exhaust fans to draw humid air or shower/bathtub vapors into the exterior of the house.

In spring, when heating is not an option, running a dehumidifier is the best choice for you to remove moisture from the basement or main floor.

Portable multifunctional humidifier

Air conditioning also helps to control the moisture content in the home, while some portable humidifiers are designed with adjustable built-in displays that can start the device when the humidity is too low or turn it off when the humidity is too high.

In the cold winter, your heating system can make the air in your home too dry, making you feel uncomfortable. It may also cause wooden products to break. To improve air quality, you can add humidifiers in the areas where you spend the most time, or install humidifiers in the heating system.

In summer, when you don't heat it up, depending on the climate in your area, too much water in your home can cause mold. To control this humidity, you need a dehumidifier to remove unnecessary humidity.

A hygrometer is a small instrument with a display that can display the relative humidity level of the room it is located in. Cheap and user-friendly, this little thing can help you monitor the air, so you can adjust your humidity level by adding a humidifier or dehumidifier to your home when needed.

If you need to increase humidity at home and you only have one portable humidifier, I will put it in the bedroom.

However, I must emphasize that the humidification of the humidifier should be suitable for the size of the room.

Otherwise, you may make the indoor air too humid. As mentioned above, humidity adjustable humidifiers help maintain moisture balance. Most humidifiers will indicate the recommended room size on the packaging. Quickly measure your room for comparison.

Humidifier design type

There are basically two types of humidifiers in design - portable devices including small personal and indoor humidifiers, as well as full house equipment including console models and flow through bypass humidifiers, which can be professionally installed on household air ducts during each heating system operation.

Read your product manual and follow the recommended instructions for filter replacement or cleaning. I cannot emphasize this - if your humidifier runs dirty and clogs the filter, you may add bacteria and mold spores to the room. Check the daily maintenance tips of the humidifier to maintain efficient machine operation.