What is the best way to install a whole house humidifier?
Jan 21, 2007 by Sara C | Posted in Maintenance & Repairs
We are getting a new heating system this week - going from oil heat to gas. Our house is very dry, so we'd like to install a whole house humidifier. Which of the following options would you recommend for a couple with moderate home repair skills (and a skilled dad!): 1. Have our contractor doing the new system find the unit for us and install it? 2. Buy a unit and give it to our contractor to install? 3. Buy a unit and install it ourselves? We're spending a lot of money and will, of course, ask our contractor for costs, but I'm wondering if anyone has any advice based on experience with ease of installation and cost. Thanks!!
Sorry - we are replacing our oil heat (forced air) burner/boiler with gas heat. We already have a gas run water heater.
Recommend that you tell the contractor to install a by-pass type humidifier. A by-pass type humidifier has no reservoir (tank) nor does it have a drum wick that requires an electric motor. Humidifiers that have water tanks develop slime in them - not healthy and not easy to maintain.
Adding it to the installation job shouldn't cost over $250-275 more.
The only maintenance required on a by-pass humidifier is to clean the distribution tray and the collection box periodically. You may have to clear the drain line occasionally.and change the pad. Cleaning the orifice is tricky - you might want to ask the installing tech to show you how.
Good luck.
Huero | Jan 22, 2007
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This recent cold weather has resurrected a debate at our house. It is about how necessary it is to have a humidifier on the furnace in our house. I've been told it is not, but I say it is as necessary as the furnace itself. We used to have one back in the 1970s and '80s. The house felt so much better in winter. That humidifier is still attached but not working because it just stopped working and needed too much maintenance. We now have problems with our sinuses and dry eyes. It never seems to feel warm enough even though the thermostat is set at 72 degrees. Are there humidifiers that don't need as much maintenance and do we actually need one? Are they expensive to run and which one is best?
If you have been a long-time reader of my column you may know that my relationship with duct-mounted whole-house humidifiers has been at odds historically.
Sure, warm moist air feels better than warm dry air and you don't spark when you reach for a door knob. Folks do live in dry climates and when it comes to freezing I think the furnace is much more necessary than any humidifier, or combination thereof.
As a home inspector I have encountered humidifiers in all states of malfunction and disrepair and have been aware of medical studies that date back to the early 1970s documenting ailments then called "humidifier fever" long before such things as Legionnaires' disease ever came into the language.
I have torn apart ductwork downstream of an old humidifier to find all sorts of strange things growing in the ducts perpetually hydrated by a malfunctioning humidifier. I have seen the underside of roofs soaking wet during winter attributable to a humidifier pumping moisture into the household air stream that ultimately migrated into the attic where it found the cool surface of the underside of the roof to condense upon - and cause mildew and rot.
Even the best of the humidifier designs tend to ultimately succumb to mineral deposits from the water supply and leakage that goes unnoticed or unrepaired, and the humidifier stops working - as yours did.
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The "whole house humidifier" was nothing more than an Old Guess coffee can full of steaming water on top of the stove. Thank goodness, no one had scheme of bottled water back then. Fuel for the coal stove was stored in a abandon next to the house.
One of my least favorite heating system add-ons is the whole-house humidifier. Much safer these days with the to boot of a UVC sanitizer light to keep the system free of nasty microbiotics such a viruses and bacteria, but I find these moisture sources
