Winters can be quite uncomfortable even indoors despite the heating, due to low humidity. We need a certain level of humidity inside homes to be comfortable. In the winter indoor humidity can be extremely low and the lack of moisture can create bodily stress, physical problems and can be detrimental for the furniture and woodwork.
Humidifiers work by adding moisture into the air and raising the humidity level of your house. All humidifiers, work on the same principle – as air is heated, it can and will absorb additional moisture from an evaporative media. If the relative humidity is 100 percent, we feel much hotter because our sweat does not evaporate at all. If the relative humidity is low, we feel cooler than the actual temperature because our sweat evaporates easily; we can also feel extremely dry.
Relative humidity of the air affects how comfortable we feel. Air contains a certain amount of water vapor. The amount of water vapor any mass of air can contain depends on the temperature of that air. The warmer the air is, the more water it can hold. A low relative humidity means that the air is dry and could hold a lot more moisture at that temperature.
Relative humidity plays a large role in determining our comfort level. Heat index charts tell us how hot a given temperature will feel to us at various relative-humidity levels. Home humidifiers help control the varying levels of relative humidity and thereby affect our comfort levels inside homes.
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