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70'F at 30% rH

Really surprised at the difference in temps of the house. There's only 1 return in the 1st floor. Once I wall off the water heater, I can add a return to the basement. Should help with the AC icing up in the summer. I did the furnace calc and the single return is undersized for the unit. I don't think you can have air returns in rooms that have gas burning in case it backs up and kills everyone with carbon monoxide. I can't come up with a good way to get a return to the 2nd floor without some major construction activities.
 
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This year was pretty bad with the small amount of rain fall. Whole family got bleeding cracked lips. The humidifier probably won't be used super often, probably like 2-3 months out of the year but that's also during the flu season. Past week everyone took turns having the flu. It sucked. Keeping the humidity up around 50rH helps to keep infections down. I'll be making some other corrections to the HVAC system to help keep the A/C unit from freezing up and keep the air in the basement healthier. I didn't add any duct work when I finished the basement or added the bathroom, so all winter long all that air is stagnant. Kinda gross thinking about how the furnace filter gets so dirty from just 1 return in the living room, the rest of the house isn't pushing the dust out. The greatest coup d'grace would be finding a method to getting a return connected to the 2nd floor somehow. Probably use a wall cavity and add a hallway return but sorta tricky with getting the return trunk located underneath the wall space because there's already a supply pipe there.
 
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KingSobieski said:
holy calcium deposits batman
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Yeah. I didn't change it last year as I was living with my dad taking care of him, and I didn't change it at the end of the previous year because I usually replace them at the start of the heating season. I should really have been replacing it twice each year.

Also somehow the water softener bypass got pushed in, and we were running hard water through it. :ugh:
 
Just get everyone in the house a vape pen, puts water vapor directly into the lungs with the added benefit of nicotine.
 
New England is more coastal so is probably damper than the inland hell hole where Plas freezed himself to death every year.

I remember when I spent a winter in Canada having to put Turkey Red Oil in the bath b/c my skin went crazy dry and cracked.

The worst thing is when you forget you used it and try to stand in the bath tub later on, it's slip over city :(
 
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New England is more coastal so is probably damper than the inland hell hole where Plas freezed himself to death every year.

I remember when I spent a winter in Canada having to put Turkey Red Oil in the bath b/c my skin went crazy dry and cracked.

The worst thing is when you forget you used it and try to stand in the bath tub later on, it's slip over city :(
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There's a bunch of new England that's not in the coast; white mountains etc
 
idk i'm just expecting to add a bit of water in for the winter months. I think the mold belief is unfounded.

edit: when i got the house, the basement was super moldy with 100% humidity, no A/C unit, and like barnacle mold on the floor joists. We've come a long way since then.
 
crazy how hard fal is pushing the anti-humidity agenda

he must have stock in [strike]carmex[/strike] blistex
 
We refer to the mold abatement industry as black gold. Seriously, it's a joke around here. Someone gets a roof leak, and the prog-white females instantly cry about mold and breathing problems. We fix the leak, and the mold abatement company comes in with Ukrainian biolab level 4 suits, and bubbles off the entire house. Kicks the residents out to live in a hotel, and the residents think the HOA is paying for everything when 99% of HOAs only cover studs out, and :lol: when the bill comes in, forwarding it over to the resident.

They will gut the entire inside of a home if someone spills a cup of water and it leaks under the baseboards.
 
Yeah, a friend got roped into that nonsense by his horrible (now ex) wife. They took the entire top of the house apart, new roof, sheathing, insulation, drywall, ceilings. Insurance covered a portion but.

:srsly:
Insane.
 
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