This is very important. But there’s a good solution (last paragraph).
Our old house, built in the 1920s had been basically sealed. Since it was only 1600 sqft and had no air ducts, the rooms were small and got terribly icky. Id crack the window open in the winter to get rid of the humidity (in PA, so hardly mild winter).
You have to realize that a lot of moisture from those those 8 tall glasses of water you’re supposed to drink leave your body as vapor. I think I’ve read half the water you expel is through your lungs [citation needed]?
If your house is sealed this water has no where to go. If there’s four of you it gets bad very quickly. This moisture eventually will escape through your drywall, into your insulation and finally through the cracks of tour siding; but that means materials that should be kept dry aren’t
Our new house is very drafty and I dont plan to fix that until I instal a heat exchanger. The air in the new house is much better, and despite being at least double in size our bills have only doubled (ie the added draftiness doesn’t seem to have had that big an effect)
The solution is a heat exchanger. This is a device that exhaust stale air and replacing it with fresh air while passing through a heat exchanger. You can have very large air flows with the outside almost free energetically.
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This is very important. But there’s a good solution (last paragraph).
Our old house, built in the 1920s had been basically sealed. Since it was only 1600 sqft and had no air ducts, the rooms were small and got terribly icky. Id crack the window open in the winter to get rid of the humidity (in PA, so hardly mild winter).
You have to realize that a lot of moisture from those those 8 tall glasses of water you’re supposed to drink leave your body as vapor. I think I’ve read half the water you expel is through your lungs [citation needed]?
If your house is sealed this water has no where to go. If there’s four of you it gets bad very quickly. This moisture eventually will escape through your drywall, into your insulation and finally through the cracks of tour siding; but that means materials that should be kept dry aren’t
Our new house is very drafty and I dont plan to fix that until I instal a heat exchanger. The air in the new house is much better, and despite being at least double in size our bills have only doubled (ie the added draftiness doesn’t seem to have had that big an effect)
The solution is a heat exchanger. This is a device that exhaust stale air and replacing it with fresh air while passing through a heat exchanger. You can have very large air flows with the outside almost free energetically.