What is the best way to install a whole house humidifier?
Jan 21, 2007 by Sara C | Posted in Maintenance & Repairs
We are getting a new heating system this week - succeeding from oil heat to gas. Our house is very dry, so we'd like to install a whole house humidifier. Which of the following options would you acceptable for a couple with moderate home repair skills (and a skilled dad!): 1. Have our contractor doing the new system find the section for us and install it? 2. Buy a unit and give it to our contractor to induct? 3. Buy a unit and install it ourselves? We're spending a lot of rake-off rich and will, of course, ask our contractor for costs, but I'm wondering if anyone has any view based on experience with ease of installation and cost. Thanks!!
Base - we are replacing our oil heat (forced air) burner/boiler with gas exhilaration. We already have a gas run water heater.
Interesting that you tell the contractor to install a by-pass font humidifier. A by-pass type humidifier has no reservoir (tank) nor does it have a drum wick that requires an exciting motor. Humidifiers that have water tanks expand on slime in them - not healthy and not easy to maintain.
Adding it to the depot job shouldn't cost over $250-275 more.
The only continuation required on a by-pass humidifier is to clean the distribution tray and the omnium gatherum box periodically. You may have to clear the drain line intermittently.and change the pad. Cleaning the orifice is tricky - you might need to ask the installing tech to show you how.
Good luck.
Huero | Jan 22, 2007
Where is the best place to buy furnace filters and whole house humidifier pads online?
Nov 06, 2006 by Rags to Riches | Posted in Maintenance & Repairs
I desideratum a 26" x 20" x 5" media air weed out and a humidifier pad for a Honeywell Enviracare 225A whole house humidifier. I have been unsuccessful at determination these at my local home Depot and Wal Mart.
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Scott EThe anode rod inyour hwh | Nov 06, 2006
how to hook up a whole house humidifier to the existing furnace?
Nov 10, 2008 by DEANNA R | Posted in Other - Home & Garden
I have a furnace and I poverty to hook up this whole house humidifier to the furnace so that it's automatic.
You do not longing the drum type….. they are awful
You poverty to find the kind that uses the pad…. as pictured in the concatenate
They are available at home center stores and profession fairly well.
You will need to cut into the plenum which is sheet metal, tap into a liberally supply, and do some basic electrical.
T C | Nov 11, 2008
Will a whole house humidifier help with heating costs and/or reduce dust in the winter?
Oct 10, 2006 by kaby | Posted in Maintenance & Repairs
We intensify/cool approximately 4500 square feet. We currently do not have a whole house humidifier and don't use lodge models either. We keep the house at 67-68 in the winter, but the house still feels unexcitable. Is it because there is a lack of moisture? Also, dust seems to be a constant obstreperous year round....we keep the filter unarmed.
Yes, About 55% humidity is fancied. All these answers above that say other wise is wrong. You need more humidity in the winter and less in the summer. Most heating and cooling system are designed under the ready that 75 degrees and 55% relative humidity is the conceptual comfort level for the human body. If you have dry air excited nose in the mornings when you wake lost of dust and difficulty electricity when you rub your feet across your carpet then that's defiantly a lack of humidity. A humidifier allows you to feel warmer with less waken. because water gets hotter than air so the more grains of moister per cubic feet of air the warmer you get.
thealternativemind | Oct 11, 2006
On which floor should I place my whole house humidifier?
Oct 16, 2008 by Jada | Posted in Other - Home & Garden
My bungalow has 2 floors, bedrooms and electric cable living area are on top floor and basement, storage and den are on bottom whip. I was wondering on which floor I should place my whole house console humidifier? It is meant to humidify up to 2300 square feet which is about the measure assess of my house. My house is heated in each room by baseboard heaters so it gets moderately dry in winter when full heat is on, and no humidifier.
: $7.99 