Installation & Service of Whole Home Humidifiers

Why Whole House Humidifiers?

Without proper humidity, rest can be anything but pleasant. Dry skin, scratchy throats, and painful coughs are the norm in many homes, especially during long winters. Mckinnon Heating installs and services central humidifiers to maintain your home’s optimum humidity, which in turn maintains your body’s comfort and health. A properly humidified environment also helps protect your furniture, woodwork, and plants.

How Steam Humidifiers Can Save You Money & Provide Comfort

Controlled humidity whole home steam humidifiers allow you the luxury of dialling the thermostat back, thus reducing annual heating bills. For example, 20°C at 40% relative humidity feels just as warm as 23°C at 20% relative humidity. Setting your thermostat back by as little as three degrees can reduce annual heating bills by as much as 5%.

We all have an investment in our health, homes and its furnishings. Protecting those investments from the dry air may not seem like an important task, but the effects of dry air are astounding:

Dry nose and throat
Itchy dry skin
Cracking of expensive woodwork and floors
Damage to household furnishings
Static electricity shocks that can damage computers, VCRs and other electronic equipment
Dry air pulls moisture from delicate membranes in your nose, throat and lungs and food doesn’t taste as good
Sleeping becomes difficult and your mental concentration is affected

Why Portable Humidifiers Are Less Effective

Portables, otherwise known as tabletop or room units, only treat the air in the immediate vicinity of the unit.
You need a separate unit for every room, area or level of your home.
Portable units often require frequent cleaning and maintenance. Some units, if not properly maintained, may pose a hazard to you and your family's health. This is often the case with portable humidifiers and dehumidifiers where standing water can pose a health hazard due to biological contaminant growth.
Portable units are oftentimes noisy and can be unattractive and obtrusive to your living space.
Multiple portable units consume more energy than a single, whole-house solution.

How Does Humidity Affect Your Comfort?

Since the air in your home is always trying to reach its saturation point, it will absorb water wherever it’s found. That means it is stealing moisture from the bodies of you and your children, your pets, your furniture and even your house plants. By giving up moisture to the air, your skin, throat and nasal passages dry out and crack, leading to various physical discomforts. That’s why many doctors recommend humidifiers for allergy and asthma sufferers. Research has shown that 30% — 60% relative humidity is ideal. Outside this range, bacteria, fungi, viruses and mites thrive and multiply. As these creatures increase in number, so does your risk of being adversely affected.

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Aprilaire, Generalaire, Honeywell and EWC Humidifiers