Whole House + Furnace Humidifier Installation in Kawartha Lakes
If you’ve landed on this page, chances are you’re dealing with a dry home environment that’s leading to itchy skin, chapped lips, and hacking coughs. As the temperature drops and the furnace turns on, it’s easy for your home to start feeling like the Sahara Desert.
We’ll help you beat the dryness. We offer whole house humidifier installations in the Kawartha Lakes area, so you can keep your home at an ideal 30 - 50% humidity.
What do humidifiers do?
As the name suggests, humidifiers create humidity by converting water into water vapor. That water vapor then gets distributed around the home.
Adding moisture back into your home may seem counter-intuitive (most people invest a lot of money into making sure water stays outside or isolated to their pipes!) but it actually comes with a number of benefits.
It has a positive impact on your health
Arid environments dry out your skin, throat, and nasal passages. As a result, your skin feels perpetually itchy. Your allergies get worse. Your snoring intensifies, and nosebleeds become more frequent. You’re more susceptible to catching the common cold and flu from family members. Eczematous symptoms may worsen.
We could go on, but we think you get the point: the humidity levels in your home have global effects on the overall health of you and your family. By keeping the air in your home ‘moisturized’, you can save yourself from a lot of unnecessary discomfort.
It has a positive impact on your sleep
As mentioned previously, dry home environments impact the health of your respiratory system, including the nose, throat, and lungs. This in turn can have a negative impact on your sleep quality. Individuals who find themselves frequently coughing and aggressively snoring during the night will struggle to fall asleep, let alone get a solid 8 hours of rest.
Humidity soothes the respiratory system, so you can enjoy a better sleep.
It has a positive impact on your home and personal property
As much as we’re all scared of water damage, excessively dry air can also be bad. It can (and often does) contract and warp a number of materials, from wood flooring to your favourite piano. Protect your home and property from damage by investing in a whole-house humidifier.
Investing in Whole-House Humidifiers
You may associate the term ‘humidifier’ with a portable unit that can effectively work in one area at a time; usually brought out mid-winter once cold season hits. Or, like many other families, it could be a staple in your child’s room because they frequently combat nosebleeds.
But humidifiers can help everyone, and their usefulness shouldn’t be limited to one or two rooms. That’s why we’re proud to offer furnace humidifier installations in the Kawartha Lakes area. These units connect to your forced air system, so humidity can reach every corner of your house. There are three kinds you can choose between, each with their own advantages and disadvantages: flow-through, reservoir, and steam humidifiers. Humidity levels are typically controlled by a humidistat, so you can tailor them to your needs (just remember to keep it in that 30% to 50% range!).