I'll tell you what. I can deal with high and low temperatures pretty well. See previous threads where some of you guys make fun of me for keeping temps outside of our bedroom in the 50's all winter! lol
One thing I can't deal with, is high humidity. I simply can't sleep at night if the humidity is too high.
Originally Posted by Silk
Heating, cooling homes, now adjusting the humidity. My home is set to ambient temps, and humidity as supplied by our weather system. I've spent my life doing it that way,no need to change now.
Do you guys have basements there?
the previous owners of my home had a dehumidifier in the basement, but weren't using it the several times in the fall that we walked through.
There was white and yellow mold in two different parts of the basement that we had them take care of, and to check if it was active.
Anyway, the basement smelled very musty until I setup two dehumidifiers. A few months later and the musty smell is gone.
We store a decent amount of stuff downstairs, so it's nice to not worry about moisture damage, smell, and rust (to a certain degree)
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Upstairs, we let the humidity do its thing. I usually run the window unit the large upstairs only for de-humidification, since it's too small to keep up with temps.
I honestly don't mind 80F+ and low, low humidity. We turn on the second, large window unit when the smaller one can't keep up with very high humidity days or the temps get threaten to exceed 90F.
Fans are A LOT more effective when the humidity is AZ low.