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Old 10-26-2004, 11:11 PM
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Anyone know what the Relative Humidity percentage in your house should be?
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Mine is about 98%. This may be due to evaporation from my tank
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It depends where your house is located.
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mine is between 45 and 50% all the time. 40 to 60 is the normal comfert zone.

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Mine is about 98%. This may be due to evaporation from my tank
next time I come over I will bring my humidity guage and we will check.. my old house was 92% befor I power smarted it and went down to about 60 after.. your house doesent feel as humid as my old one did but who knows.

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What is power smarted? A HRV unit?

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What is power smarted? A HRV unit?

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not realy, they make you house more energy efficient. I had all my windows and doors upgraded, new humidity controled fan in the bathroom and proper venting for the dryer, and bathroom fan.

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Oh thanks, I'll see if I can get a few "they." Must be a BC thing.

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When i had my 135 gal tank, with the older windows that i had i had n problems in reference for humitidy, when i had my 280 going i had a hum of 80% thur out the winter.

There is a humidex out there you can get at home hardware its awesome a buddy of mine has it and he swears by it . He had like something over 100 gallons in his house and runnign at a Hum of high 80's and now after running this its at 37% so you do the math.


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here is the link for it ... the second and third one down....they range from 200-300 cdn

http://homehardware.netservices.ca/pages/HHDW_0001_PRODUCTDETAIL.asp?Region_ID={6638E650-04A6-43E2-BF2F-526834051819}&WPS_Name=HHDW_0001_0012&Publication_ ID={1985B327-8597-4533-BD92-FB367463F4D1}&HHBC=False
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