Dry air can wreck havoc on your home environment and health. Warm, dry air acts like a giant sponge, soaking up moisture from everything it touches.

It can make furniture shrink, warp and crack, hardwood floors separate at the seams as moisture is sucked out of them by desert-dry indoor air. Plus, it can cause skin irritation and respiratory problems, not to mention annoying static shocks. Fortunately, with a Lennox Healthy Climate® humidifier, you can easily maintain optimal humidity levels in every room of your home.

Humidity in the optimal zone to increase comfort, lower health risks

Studies show that by humidifying indoor air to optimal levels, in the range of 35 to 50% relative humidity, you are more comfortable and decrease health risks. Proper humidity: (1) reduces static shocks, (2) helps eliminate the itchy skin, (3) lowers your risk of infection by bacteria and viruses, (4) reduces the possibility of allergic reactions or asthma attacks, and alleviates the symptoms.

BASED ON DATA PUBLISHED IN ASHRAE TRANSACTIONS

Dry air aggravates upper respiratory problems

Itchy skin, dry throat coughs and cracked nasal membranes are all consequences of dry air. Cracked nasal membranes are a common cause of bloody noses, and can increase your risk of infection by bacteria and upper respiratory viruses. Many doctors recommend a humidifier to allergy and asthma suffers as a way to relieve their symptoms.

Relative humidity drops as outdoor air is heated

In an average home, normal air infiltration around doors and windows completely replaces inside air about once every two hours. When that outdoor air is heated to room temperature, its relative humidity plummets. For example, on a winter day with the outdoor relative humidity at 60 percent and the temperature at 30 degrees, warming outside air to 70 degrees causes its relative humidity to drop to just 14 percent (see chart). No wonder that without a humidifier your home quickly becomes bone dry.

BASED ON A CHART BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE

Outdoor/Indoor Relative Humidity Conversion Chart

You feel colder, even with the thermostat turned up

Your body is a furnace that is constantly generating heat. It regulates the temperature by constantly secreting moisture in the form of perspiration, which evaporates. This means, that as the perspiration evaporates, it absorbs heat from your skin. The drier the air, the more rapid the rate of evaporation and the quicker your body cools.

When it’s cold outside and you’ve got the heat running and you feel a little chilly, you turn the heat up, which dries the indoor air all the more, causing your body to kick into a higher “cooling mode.”

The higher you turn up the heat, the drier the air becomes, the more your body evaporates moisture and the cooler you feel.

What’s the lowest-cost way to lower your heating bills?

The right thing to do when you’re feeling chilly is to check the indoor humidity level first. Raise the humidity level and you’ll feel more comfortable without increasing the heat.

At 70 deg. F for every 10% you increase the indoor relative humidity, you

Increase the “apparent temperature” approximately 1 deg. F.

For every 1 deg. F that you reduce your thermostat setting. You save approximately 5% on your energy consumption.

This means that consumers can save 20-30% or more on their heating cost on the coldest days and nights of the winter…and be more comfortable, healthier and extend the useful life of their home and furnishings!

What else can you install for less that will save that kind of money on heating cost?

For example, a 69 degree temperature at 35% relative humidity feels just as warm as a 72 degree setting at 19% relative humidity.

A humidifier for every Home

A Healthy Climate® whole-house humidifier is one of the easiest, most effective ways to add moisture to your home’s air.

The humidifier can be mounted on either the supply or return plenum.

Power humidifier

Equipped with a built-in fan that circulates humidified air throughout your home via your furnace duct system.

The humidifier fan draws dry air from the furnace duct through the water panel evaporator. The humidified air then wraps around both sides of the Water Panel and returns through the side louvers into the furnace’s air flow, providing comforting, humidified air to the entire home.

Bypass humidifiers

Utilizes the furnace fan to direct humidified air to each room in your home.

When the furnace operates, negative air pressure is created that draws air from the supply, hot side of the furnace to the return, cold side. This pressure draws the heated air through the Water Panel evaporator, providing comforting, humidified air throughout the home.

How Healthy Climate® whole-home humidifiers work

Healthy Climate® humidifiers use nature’s own process by introducing humidity through safe, pure water vapor. When your home’s humidity falls below the optimum level the Healthy Climate® humidifier goes to work. Water supplied to the distribution tray flows evenly across the patented water panel evaporator. Thirsty, dry air is forced through the water panel and the humidified air is distributed throughout you home. When J.D Heating & Air Conditioning, Inc. installs your high-tech Lennox Healthy Climate® power humidification system it can deliver up to 50% more moisture in comparison to competitive units for improved comfort - and that is what you buy a humidifier for. The computer-equipped, power humidifier features state-of-the-art automatic no touch computer control to help eliminate the need for manual adjustments. It senses changes in relative humidity instantaneously and adjusts the humidity providing optimal indoor humidity levels. It utilizes an outdoor temperature sensor for monitoring even the slightest changes in outdoor temperature. Solid state electronics assures total system reliability and precision.

The humidifying principal of the Healthy Climate® humidifier uses the introduction of humidity

The humidifying principal of the Healthy Climate® humidifier uses the introduction of humidity in the form of water vapor to prevent minerals from entering the air stream in the home. Water is supplied to the distribution tray, allowing it to flow evenly across the water panel. The resulting humidified air is distributed through the entire home.