Low Humidity Could be Ruining These Areas of Your Home

Excessive humidity can be a terrible thing, especially for hairdos, make-up, and even trying to breathe. But a deficiency of humidity in your home might actually be harmful to some features of your home’s interior. Check out these few products you may have in your home that insufficient humidity can damage over time.  

Wood Floors and Wood Furniture

When humidity increases and decreases it causes wood to expand and shrink, which could cause cracks and weakness in wood furniture. The bloating and shrinking also contributes to warping or gaps in wood flooring. 

Books

Absolutely – books require moisture to prevent the pages from ending up dry and fragile. The lack of moisture can also result in the ink flaking and the covers warping. On the other hand, too much moisture could end up with the book pages sticking together permanently, discoloration, and possibly mold. 

Electronics

Low humidity produces static electricity which can disrupt the internal components of electronic equipment, such as your plasma television, PC, or even your beloved Nintendo. 

Collections

Whether you are keeping a collection of portraits or stamps and photographs, make sure your home has well-balanced humidity all year long. Rising and falling of humidity may cause postage stamps to end up brittle and discolored and can even coil the corners on your photographs. Low humidity can also make the paint used to produce portraits brittle or cause it to fracture. 

Hobbies

Are you a collector of wine? Or a player of the piano? Humidity a major concern for you, too. A lack of humidity can cause the cork in a nice bottle of wine to fracture or shrink, potentially ruining your vino. Insufficient humidity may also cause pianos, guitars, and other fine instruments to be out-of-tune or cause cracks in the wood. 

Curious if your home has the right amount of humidity? Call A1 Chesney Service Experts today or schedule online for a free in-home comfort analysis to make sure your air isn’t hurting your valuable home.