Save Home Heat Company provides high quality central humidifier installation for homes heated by central forced air furnaces, helping to achieve the highest indoor air quality for Northglenn, CO residents. As many homeowners know, heating your home during the chilly winter months can lead to dry air and consistent indoor humidity levels. Some resulting symptoms may include dry and itchy nose, eyes, and throat, aggravated medical conditions, as well as other impacts to your home, itself.
A properly specified, high quality central humidifier installed on your furnace system can help resolve these and other issues. Our high experienced, skilled team at Save Home Heat Company can help.
An Overview of Central Humidifiers
It’s not uncommon for Superior homeowners to experience overly dry air in their homes during the winter. Low humidity levels can cause dry skin, itchy nose, eyes, and throat, and trigger respiratory conditions. Overly dry air is also potentially harmful for wood furniture and flooring, and dust seems to fly around more under these conditions, as well.
It’s not uncommon for Superior homeowners to experience overly dry air in their homes during the winter. Low humidity levels can cause dry skin, itchy nose, eyes, and throat, and trigger respiratory conditions. Overly dry air is also potentially harmful for wood furniture and flooring, and dust seems to fly around more under these conditions, as well.
A central humidifier, operating in concert with your furnace, can help mitigate these problems by increasing the humidity level throughout the entire home. Operating automatically and connected to a ready source of water, a quality central humidifier is the best solution for alleviating issues associated with dry indoor air in homes that have forced air heating.
The Benefits of Central Humidifiers Include:
- Greater protection against airborne viruses and bacteria
- Improved resistance to common indoor wintertime respiratory, eye, and skin issues
- Reduced airborne dust, pet dander, and more
- Reduces or eliminates static electric shocks
- Helps protect valuable home investments in wood products
- Equal or greater comfort levels can be achieved at a lower thermostat temperature, resulting in lower utility bills
Find out if your Northglenn home may benefit from adding a central humidifier to your system by contacting our friendly team of experts for a highly informative, low-pressure install quote.
Choosing The Right Central Humidifier for Your Northglenn Home
When deciding on a home humidifier, there are two primary choices to consider. Here’s what you need to know about each of them.
Standard Flow-Through Humidifiers
One of the most common types of standard humidifiers are called flow-through humidifiers, which are the healthiest design and easiest to maintain. Like all central units, they use your furnace to blow humidified air through your air ducts, reaching every area of your home where there’s ducting.
In order to do their job, standard central humidifiers require that the furnace is running, producing heat in order to create humidity. In homes that rely on the furnace for heating consistently throughout the heating season, a standard humidifier will typically do a good job of increasing humidity levels most of the time. However, in homes where there is significant solar gain on a daily basis, with the heat often not needed for many hours at a time (that’s a good thing!), a standard central humidifier may not always be able to achieve and maintain optimal humidity levels.
Standard flow-through humidifiers are available in both bypass models (the simplest design) and power units, which have a built-in fan for slightly higher performance and greater installation flexibility. Standard humidifiers are popular because of their relatively low upfront cost and minimal annual maintenance needs.
Central Steam Humidifiers
The other popular central humidifier option are high performance central steam humidifiers. Unlike standard units, steam humidifiers do not require heat from the furnace in order to function properly. These units boil water internally and, like standard units, deliver humidified air to the home through the ducting system powered by the furnace’s fan. With a central steam humidifier, humidified air is consistently delivered to the home regardless of whether the furnace is providing heat or simply circulating air.
Steam humidifiers are the best option when consistent indoor humidity levels are needed around the clock, 24/7. Medical conditions and valuable wood product investments such as flooring and fine furniture are often related to the decision to go with this type of humidifier. Notably, if a home experiences significant solar gain on a regular basis during the heating season, a steam humidifier is the product that will allow you to maintain proper humidity levels when a standard unit may not be up to the job. In addition, in larger homes that have a single furnace, a steam unit may be the only effective option worth considering.
While central steam humidifiers are more costly to install and operate, with more detailed annual maintenance requirements than standard central humidifiers, the difference in performance between the two is significant. Steam units offer consistent high performance that standard units simply cannot match.
Regarding portable room humidifiers, our team at Save Home Heat does not recommend these products because they offer a very limited coverage area, and regular maintenance is typically more than the buyer may have expected.
Home Humidifier Experts in Northglenn
Save Home Heat Company has been serving homeowners in Northglenn and neighboring communities for over 40 years. You can rely on our strong long-term commitment to achieving exceptional results in all the work we perform, and striving to earn your trust and future business every time you give us the opportunity to work in your home.
To learn more about central humidifier options for your home in a highly informative, low-pressure manner, and receive a free, no obligation install quote, please reach out to our friendly, helpful team today.
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