What Should Normal Indoor Humidity Be?

Cooler weather is known for creating dry air within your home. Since humidity levels in Kansas City are typically lower in the fall and winter, drier air may cause in burning skin, irritated eyes and a raspy throat. 

When you’re operating your furnace, it’s important to keep your home’s humidity under control for ideal comfort. Let’s review what the right indoor humidity should be in Kansas City and how you can reach it. 

The Mayo Clinic suggests setting your house’s humidity. During this appointment, our Experts will gauge humidity levels, look at your current heating and cooling equipment and give options. 

These recommendations can involve a whole-home humidifier. This device hooks up with your furnace to give stable humidity all around your home. It’s superior to a portable humidifier, which is limited to humidifying a single area at a time. And these humidifiers can create a mess, spilling water as you transfer them from room to room. 

4 Signs That Your House’s Indoor Humidity Isn’t Right 

When the humidity in your home is off, it can create a few issues. Here are several symptoms that your house’s humidity is off. 

1. You aren’t sleeping deeply. The National Sleep Foundation says excessively dry air can make you more susceptible to getting sick, because your nasal passages get dry. And not feeling well means you typically won’t sleep great. The dry air can also cause your throat to feel inflamed and make it harder for you to count sheep. It could also worsen snoring. 

2. You’re continuously getting zapped. Dry air leads to increased static electricity. You can keep the zaps controlled by keeping your house’s humidity level. 

3. Your wood cabinets, flooring or furniture is fracturing or appears damaged. Air that’s too arid can blemish wooden things, because it removes moisture. Installing a whole-home humidifier can keep your belongings and home looking fantastic. 

4. Your skin appears dry and scratchy. If you’re needing a lot of moisturizer but your skin still seems scratchy when you’re inside, humidity levels may be to blame. Insubstantial humidity can also make your lips crack and make you cough more. 

How to Ease Symptoms from Your House’s Dry Air 

As we talked about previously, installing a humidifier at 816-787-0500 to schedule your free home comfort assessment now.