How do you control humidity?

[Reefer Rob]

Oops hit the wrong button. With our mild winters on the coast, all you need is an exhaust fan in your tank room and your problem is solved. Mine is an inline fan that exhausts the air from directly the aquarium hood. Installed a 3 speed switch inline, low for winter and high for summer.

[Chaloupa]

I have 300g (3 tanks) in my family room and did have an HRV installed, plus the window is ALWAYS open in that room, and we do leave the fan in the range on low....to keep the air flow going....so far we have no mold issues and have had both tanks in there for a couple of years now...I go through about 10g every other day (UGH I know) as both tanks have halides and tend to get too warm. We have AC in the summer that is full blast in this room, so the fans aren't cooling by evap as much.

[Keri]

I really want an HRV but Drew thinks it will be too hard to install with no existing ductwork as we don't have a furnace, just electric heat. (He's probably right, he's pretty reasonable lol) But....an exhaust fan.... you just punk a hole in the wall and set it up, right? I like the idea of a humidex but I don't know if it will be powerful enough.... Oh choices...

[loveless]

I bought one of te fantech fr100 fans. http://www.hvacquick.com/frfnconfig.php?fm=frGot it off ebay think I paid around 110 bucks and it stays on continuously for a year now with no problems, only 19watts too which is good

[Skimmerking]

Originally Posted by Keri

I really want an HRV but Drew thinks it will be too hard to install with no existing ductwork as we don't have a furnace, just electric heat. (He's probably right, he's pretty reasonable lol) But....an exhaust fan.... you just punk a hole in the wall and set it up, right? I like the idea of a humidex but I don't know if it will be powerful enough.... Oh choices...

Keri just to let you in on something here. may friend has over 1000 gallons in his house. and his humidity was sitting at 85-90% all the time windows were dripping like crazy i couldn't believe how damp it was in his house. He installed a Humid ex and with in 3 days the % was down to 35 % and man what a difference, just remember this machine works and but remember never go that fast the is should have been done over a course of 2 weeks not 3 days . so its does work. the model he has is rated for 2500 SQ Ft and he has 1000 up and a 1000 down and it was pretty fast sucking out the water. now its like so dry in there but nice.

Just remember to install it in the basement and insure that you have fresh pipe around 2" vringing in fresh air. but you have no furance you are lucky then..

[Keri]

Today's humidity reading: 63


I can't do an HRV, I'd like a simple exhaust fan rigged to a humidistat (sp?) but it was pointed out to me that if we go to sell this house it's going to look like we were growing dope down here so I guess I'm leaning towards a Humidex again. It costs more for essentially the same thing as a fan on a humidistat control but it looks a lot more offical, less suspicious!

[Lance]

Originally Posted by Keri

Today's humidity reading: 63


I can't do an HRV, I'd like a simple exhaust fan rigged to a humidistat (sp?) but it was pointed out to me that if we go to sell this house it's going to look like we were growing dope down here so I guess I'm leaning towards a Humidex again. It costs more for essentially the same thing as a fan on a humidistat control but it looks a lot more offical, less suspicious!

Hmmm! Exhaust fan and large electricity consumption? Just like every other house in B.C. I wouldn't worry about it Keri. If you want to go the fan route, put it in. I would.

[mark]

Originally Posted by Keri

Today's humidity reading: 63


I can't do an HRV, I'd like a simple exhaust fan rigged to a humidistat (sp?) but it was pointed out to me that if we go to sell this house it's going to look like we were growing dope down here so I guess I'm leaning towards a Humidex again. It costs more for essentially the same thing as a fan on a humidistat control but it looks a lot more offical, less suspicious!

A bathroom type fan (which can move a lot of air), good looking grill, can't see why the would effect resale.

[Keri]

Originally Posted by mark

A bathroom type fan (which can move a lot of air), good looking grill, can't see why the would effect resale.

Well, I was going to vent it thru the wall as it's downstairs where the tank is and I can access an old dryer vent that was there before. Wouldn't that look funny?

[Lance]

Originally Posted by Keri

Well, I was going to vent it thru the wall as it's downstairs where the tank is and I can access an old dryer vent that was there before. Wouldn't that look funny?

Not at all.