Mold Prevention: Tips on Controlling the Humidity In Your Home

Aside from the dampness of an area, one of the leading causes of molds is moisture. Moisture is formed if there is the presence of humidity.  Despite of this, there are only a few homeowners who take action to prevent the humidity level inside of their home from going up. Most owners lack the knowledge about molds and how humidity affects its growth. Everything that lives and breathes in your area are susceptible to the harmful effects of mold. Humidity creates air that causes moisture for molds to grow on. They can start from the walls, to the ceiling, clothing storage and even on the floors.

Proper plumbing and air conditioning in your home does not spare you from molds. Although they can help prevent them, those are only some of the many remediation methods. Molds can grow in numerous ways and can grow in any area of the house, given the right condition. Since the humidity inside of your home can cause mold growth, preventive measures must be done to ensure that you can correct the humidity level inside of your home.

Here are tips on how to control the humidity inside of your house:

Closing your doors and windows during warm days

There are instances wherein the weather is relatively warm. It can increase the humidity inside of your home. If your home is fully air-conditioned, close all of your doors and windows during warm days. If you don't have an air-conditioning system, you can open the doors and windows as long as you don't open them excessively. Just open them enough to provide proper ventilation inside of the house.

Allow proper ventilation in your bathroom

The bathroom is one of the leading sources of humidity inside of the home. Several minutes after you've taken a shower, make sure that the room is properly ventilated. Air can not infiltrate an area if the doors are closed. Open the doors for a number of minutes so that the air from the interior can be circulated properly, allowing humidity to be on a normal level.

Check you thermostat

Always set your thermostat to automatic and not on. Not a lot of people know this one. If you turn on your thermostat, it can prompt your air-conditioning system to circulate air that is humid without drying it. This can lead to humidity increasing by notches. Once you've set your thermostat to auto, your air-conditioning system can make it circulate air the is coll and dry.

Fresh air on your HVAC systems

There are commercial buildings that let fresh air into their air-conditioning system because it can decrease the humidity of an area. They can even weaken air pollutants that are hovering inside of the area. However, in areas that are considered warm, the air that infiltrates the air-conditioning system can cause humidity to increase. One solution to this problem is getting a humidifier. It can remove the humidity in the air.

There are commercial buildings that let fresh air into their air-conditioning system because it can decrease the humidity of an area. They can even weaken air pollutants that are hovering inside of the area. However, in areas that are considered warm, the air that infiltrates the air-conditioning system can cause humidity to increase. One solution to this problem is getting a humidifier. It can remove the humidity in the air.