Mold infestation is one of the more dreaded home problems. Allergies, musty smell, and even structural damage are all consequences of undetected mold infestation. How to do mold inspection and testing? At first, it seems it’s the easiest thing in the world: Mold inspection: Check if there is mold present in your house. Mold testing: … Read more
Having a dehumidifier with a wrong setting can be just as useless as having no dehumidifier. Even before you buy a dehumidifier, it makes sense to educate yourself about relative humidity levels. The basic idea is to keep indoor relative humidity between 30% and 50%. However, when it comes to basement dehumidifier setting, we’re sometimes … Read more
High +60% relative humidity can lead to all kinds of problems in any industry. Damp warehouses, offices, server rooms, and basements can cause stock damage in the short run and integral damage in the long run (mold growth). The most effective to reduce air moisture from large square footage areas are powerful commercial dehumidifiers. Commercial … Read more
Will a dehumidifier cool a room? Dehumidifiers and room cooling is quite a paradox. It has been at the center of urban myths for so long that we really need to clear up if a dehumidifier can cool a room. If you ask an HVAC expert and a homeowner ‘Does a dehumidifier cool a room?’, … Read more
A dehumidifier can literally extract 5+ gallons of water from indoor air for less than $1. As we have established in our post about dehumidifier energy use, dehumidifiers don’t represent a big electricity expenditure. You can run a small 30-pint dehumidifier for 10 hours and spend less than $1 for that. How much does it … Read more
As with every device powered by electricity, it makes sense to look into dehumidifier energy use. When looking at how many watts does a dehumidifier use, you can see that dehumidifiers don’t draw that many amps or watts. For everybody worried if dehumidifiers are expensive to run, here’s a quick answer: No. Do dehumidifiers use … Read more
Correctly sizing a dehumidifier is the first thing you need to do. The capacity of most residential dehumidifiers ranges from 30 pints to 70 pints. What size dehumidifier do I need? Can a dehumidifier be too big? Here’s the deal: If you buy a dehumidifier that’s too big or one that’s too small, you will … Read more
In simplest terms, a dehumidifier is an HVAC device that removes moisture from indoor air. To understand how does a dehumidifier work, however, we have to look into the device itself. In technical terms, the dehumidifier uses a refrigeration-based and heater-based system to reduce relative air humidity from 50-100% to 30-50%. As you can see … Read more
“Over time, high humidity levels can eat through your basement walls.” A dehumidifier for the basement is an HVAC device that is fast becoming one of the most important parts of maintaining a healthy house. People started to realize that mold and mildew growth isn’t only nasty (in addition to allergies and pest problems); it … Read more