Low Humidity Could be Ruining These Areas of Your Home
Extreme humidity can be a bad thing, especially for curly hair, make-up, and even inhaling. But a lack of humidity in your home may actually be harmful to some aspects of your home’s interior. Take a look at a few things you may have in your home that low humidity can ruin over time.
Wood Furniture and Wood Floors
When humidity levels go up and down it causes wood to swell and shrink, which may cause cracks and instability in wood furniture. The expanding and shrinking also contributes to warping or gaps in wood flooring.
Books
That’s right – books need moisture to prevent the pages from becoming dry and brittle. The dryness can also result in the ink flaking and the covers warping. Conversely, too much moisture could end up with the book pages sticking together permanently, discoloration, and possibly mold.
Electronics
Low humidity produces static electricity which can disrupt the internal components of electronic equipment, such as your LED television, PC, or even your beloved PlayStation.
Collections
Whether you are a collector of wall art or stamps and photos, make sure your home’s humidity is well-balanced year-round. Increasing and decreasing of humidity could cause postage stamps to end up brittle and discolored and can even curl the corners on your photos. Dry air can also make the paint used to produce wall art brittle or cause it to crack.
Hobbies
Are you a wine collector? Or a piano player? Humidity is important to you, too. To little humidity can cause the cork in a fine bottle of wine to crack or shrink, potentially destroying your vino. Insufficient humidity may also cause pianos, violins, and other fine instruments to be out-of-tune or end up with cracks in the wood.
Not sure if your home has the right amount of humidity? Call Stevenson Service Experts today or schedule online for a complimentary in-home comfort analysis and make sure your air isn’t damaging your valuable home.