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Anyone interested in getting a power mist humdifier from Mattamy?

Again, I like to take a look at everything, and I saw my first power mist humdifier or whatever was installed in the Cambridge model homes.

This is what it looks like, its a rather large file, so I made it a link. I want you to zoom in and really look at it

http://www.trends.net/~tim/humidifier1.jpg



Here is a small pic



What happens is clean water comes up through a hose and drips down the screen when the humidity is low, then the excess goes out the hose at the bottom. If the screen is not cleaned or replaced, scaling or buildup occurs. I wonder if the water is hard in Cambridge???

Tim

This was found in the 2nd 34' lot

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http://spaces.msn.com/greensburg101/ website update...Feb 13, 2009

You are going to find you won't need a humidifier for the first yar or so of having your new house.. Everything will be drying out.. the concrete, the bricks, the drywall, the wood all will be throwing excessive amounts of moisture into the air.

As with any new house, get a DE-humidifier. Put it in the basement. Run it 24 hours a day for the first few months... especially in the summer.

From experience, last winter (can we safely say so now or is it stil too early) the humidity at my home droped to 25% to 30%, which is very low. FYI, I closed last July. It really felt too dry and we had to use a small room humidifier, especially for the kids bedrooms.

I am contemplating getting one.

Mattamy sells it for ~$475 installed w/GST

Small company in Milton sells it for $300 installed, or free with AC.

Tim

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http://spaces.msn.com/greensburg101/ website update...Feb 13, 2009

I don't think so, but I have never bought de-humdifiers, I only inherit them.

The de-humidifiers that I know of uses a gas that goes to the condensor coils and gets cold. Then frost forms around the coils and sometime later the de-humidifier turns off and the coils warm up and the frost melts into water which drips into a catch basin. This pretty much sums it up for the de-humidifier.


Oh yeah, when your furnace fan is blowing, it pushes the water particles through your house.

Some of the older humidifiers have a rotating sponge that air blows through to add humidity.

I have this old de-humidifier that I will use. It rattles and makes lots of noise, but I think it will do the job

Tim

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http://spaces.msn.com/greensburg101/ website update...Feb 13, 2009

Or get central air.. and just watch the water pour out the runoff hose in the basement

We got one as we were under the impresson that your hardwood is not covered without one and if you get one after the fact the furnace is not covered...something like that anyway, you might want to ask about it if you are getting hardwood floors.