3 Reasons You Need to Control Home Humidity

As many often say, “It’s not the heat that gets you, it’s the humidity.” This can be sound reasoning for those living through a summer in Satellite Beach, FL, and more of a reason to ensure your home’s indoor environment remains comfortable. Let’s review a few reasons it’s essential to control the humidity level inside your home.

Health and Comfort

Humidity levels have a rather immediate effect on how comfortable you feel. Excessively high humidity can create an oppressive, stuffy and suffocating atmosphere, and low humidity can introduce a barren dryness.

Humidity may also impact your health. For example, without enough moisture in the air, your eyes may become extremely dry, possibly leading to corneal damage. Low humidity will also cause your throat and skin to dry up, and the latter may even crack and begin bleeding.

Damage to Your Home

Extreme humidity of either sort may also cause subtle but serious damage to various parts of your home. If you have wooden floors or furniture, high humidity may cause those things to warp or expand, while low humidity can make wood brittle and prone to chipping or cracking. Even if you restore humidity to normal levels, it may not always be possible to undo such damage, so you should strive to get the humidity under control quickly.

Biological Growth and Pests

High humidity creates a hothouse-like environment that can make your home attractive to numerous pests. Some of these include flies, mosquitoes, cockroaches, bacteria and many different kinds of toxic and harmful microbes. The last of these are especially likely to start growing somewhere in or around your air conditioner.

Fortunately, our team can suggest humidifiers or dehumidifiers to help resolve this issue. Call Merritt Island Air & Heat today and to learn about our indoor air quality services and give your home the comfortable atmosphere you long for in Satellite Beach, FL.

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