Low Humidity Could be Ruining These Areas of Your Home
A lot of humidity can be a negative thing, especially for curly hair, make-up, and even breathing. But a lack of humidity in your home could actually harm some features of your home’s interior. Check out these few items you may have within your home that low humidity can wreck over time.
Wood Floors and Wood Furniture
When humidity increases and decreases it causes wood to swell and shrink, which could cause cracks and fragility in wood furniture. The expanding and shrinking also contributes to warping or openings in wood flooring.
Books
That’s right – books require moisture to avoid the pages from becoming dry and fragile. The lack of moisture can also make the ink flake and the cover warp. On the contrary, extreme moisture could cause book pages to stick together permanently, discoloration, and potentially mold.
Electronics
The absence of humidity creates static electricity which can disrupt the internal components of electronic equipment, such as your plasma television, PC, or even your beloved gaming console.
Collections
Whether you are a collector of portraits 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 become brittle and discolored and can even curl the corners on your photographs. Dry air can also make the paint used to create artwork brittle or cause it to crack.
Hobbies
Are you a wine collector? Or a piano player? Humidity matters to you, too. To little humidity can cause the cork in a nice bottle of wine to split or shrink, potentially ruining your vino. Low humidity may also cause pianos, cellos, and other fine instruments to be out-of-tune or cause cracks in the wood.
Not sure if your home has the correct balance of humidity? Call Stevenson Service Experts today or schedule online for a complimentary in-home comfort analysis and make sure your air isn’t harming your valuable home.