Friday, January 29, 2010
Dry prairie winters...
Winter is the season for humidifiers in most areas of the country, but especially here in the prairies. Whether you use gas or electric heat, the air from your furnace will not only keep you warm, it will dry out the air in your home. Humidifiers, by sending small molecules of moisture into the air, can help keep you healthier but also extend the life of your furniture.
The benefits of humidifiers during the heating season are many. The most common are listed below.
1. Can help relieve cold symptoms by making the air you breath moist, which helps keep your lungs more elastic.
2. Reduce susceptibility to infection by keeping the mucus membranes of your throat and nasal passages moist allowing the tiny hairs (cilia) in both to work at expelling foreign objects such as mold, pet dander and bacteria.
3. Relieve and prevent dry, scratchy skin and lips.
4. Keep valuable wood furniture from drying out and cracking.
5. Reduce static electricity, thus reducing the tiny shocks received from touching certain objects and other people.
6. Can help prevent wood floors from buckling and separating.
7. Reduce nosebleeds, as the air you breathe is moist.
We use this puppy, above, at our house. It is easier to fill, and we turn it on at night when we go to bed (helps avoid that "wake up in the middle of the night and can't swallow cause my throat is so dry" feeling.) How dry is our house? We fill up the humidifier every night! Details on it below:
-Humidifies medium rooms
- Easy to fill: clear, removable water tank
- Easy to clean: rinse-to-clean base
- Automatic moisture balance system: naturally adjusts output for maximum comfort and helps prevent water condensation
- Two moisture output settings: high/low
- Continuous cleaning filter pad: traps impurities
- No white dust
- 3 year limited warranty
- Replacement filter HH #3838-280
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Electrical
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