Humidifiers, Your Home, and Your Health this Winter

JP Heating and Air Conditioning offers its customers whole-home humidifiers. During the winter months, the air becomes drier and can create a myriad of different health problems in addition to drying out your skin. Many homeowners don’t understand the importance of humidification and the benefits of controlling it properly. When a lot of people hear the word, humidity, they think of the thick, muggy summer air. While it is true that having too much moisture in the air causes issues, when maintained, whole home humidifiers provide incredible health benefits to your home and health.

Your Health

When it comes to a whole-home humidifier, JP Heating and Air Conditioning understands the importance of proper humidity regarding your health. Cold and flu viruses tend to flourish in low humidity environments. This means that you are less likely to come down with an upper respiratory illness with humidified air. With dry air – people with allergies and asthma are negatively affected, making it harder to breath. Some people can even develop infections. Dry air also causes bloody noses, dry mouth, dry eyes, sore throats, cracked skin, and painful static shocks. In Michigan, our air tends to get really dry in the winter and a humidifier can counteract that.

Your Home

There are many benefits when it comes to whole-home humidifiers. For your home it can help stop the premature cracking of walls, hardwood floors, and woodwork. Electronics can also break due to static electric charging and during the dry, winter months this can be a huge hazard. When the air is dry, you are also more likely to turn up the thermostat which leads to higher heating bills.

When your home needs a humidifier, contact JP Heating and Air Conditioning to get it installed centrally to your heating and cooling system like Aprilaire. This system will continuously monitor the relative humidity in your home and make sure the right amount of moisture is created, which is something that portable units cannot do. Aprilaire has steam and evaporative humidifiers that bring moisture into your home through water vapor. The prevents damaging minerals from coming into your home’s air and into your lungs. Whole home-humidifiers are easy to maintain while portable units require a bit more upkeep.

If you interested in installing a whole-home humidifier with JP Heating and Air Conditioning, contact us today for more details.