{"id":423,"date":"2020-04-20T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.daimion.com\/blog\/?p=423"},"modified":"2020-05-29T19:09:05","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T23:09:05","slug":"does-ac-help-humidity-in-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daimion.com\/blog\/indoor-air-quality-service\/does-ac-help-humidity-in-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Does My AC Help With Humidity in Summer?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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High humidity on summer days makes it much harder for us to\nkeep cool. The increased moisture in the air doesn\u2019t make the temperature\nhotter\u2014a 90\u00b0F day is still 90\u00b0F\u2014but it does make it harder for our bodies to\nrelease heat and cool us down. This is why humid days feel hotter: we have all\nthis extra heat stored up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, you have your home\u2019s air conditioning system to\nhelp keep you cool. But does the AC do anything about the humidity aside from\nblast out enough cool air to overcome the heat? Well \u2026 a little. But it\u2019s\nrarely enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The Standard Air Conditioner Is Not a Dehumidifier<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s best to say that an air conditioner has some\ndehumidifying properties<\/em>, but it isn\u2019t an actual dehumidifier. When an air\nconditioner runs, it draws cold refrigerant through an indoor coil, where contact\nwith the warmer indoor air causes the refrigerant to evaporate. This evaporation\ndraws heat from the air, which is how the AC provides cooler air for the house.\nBut evaporation also causes moisture in the air to condense along the coil, which\nthen drips down into a pan and drain. (This is the dripping sound you occasionally\nhear from the AC.) So the air conditioner does pull some of the moisture from\nthe air, dehumidifying it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, unless the air conditioner was specifically built\nwith humidity controls, it cannot make much difference for comfort in a house. It\u2019s\njust not designed for it and doesn\u2019t have any precision control over how it\ndraws moisture out of the air. (In fact, on dry days, and AC can end up making\nthe house too dry.) On the most humid days, the AC won\u2019t make a noticeable dent\nin humidity levels, and you\u2019ll have to keep running the system longer and\nlonger to overcome the extra heat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Whole-House Dehumidifier Is the Answer<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The way to overcome the high humidity problem in your house\nis to arrange with our team for a whole-house dehumidifier installation. You\ncan purchase portable dehumidifiers, but they only work in one room at a time,\ndon\u2019t have high capacity, and can create fire hazards. It\u2019s best to have a\nsingle dehumidifier installed into the ventilation system that works in tandem\nwith the AC and has precision controls on the thermostat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A whole-house dehumidifier operates similarly to an AC: it\nhas a refrigerant coil where cold refrigerant evaporates to pull moisture from\nthe air. It also pulls heat from the air, but to prevent this interfering with\nthe action of the air conditioner, the dehumidifier re-heats this air to\nbalance it. You set the humidity level on the thermostat for proper balance. We\nrecommend a relative humidity level of 45%, which is the median between a\ntoo-humid and a too-dry day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Balanced humidity does more than make your house more comfortable. It stops mold growth, unhealthy conditions, and water damage. It\u2019s a big benefit to have a whole-house dehumidifier, so please contact us to learn more about them and schedule installation for a dehumidifier in Malvern, PA<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michall Daimion Heating & Air Conditioning, Inc. has served the Main Line since 1976. Call to schedule whole-house dehumidifier installation.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The way to overcome the high humidity problem in your house is to arrange with our team for a whole-house dehumidifier installation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[40,45,88],"class_list":["post-423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indoor-air-quality-service","tag-air-conditioning-system-installation","tag-dehumidifiers","tag-malvern"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daimion.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daimion.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daimion.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daimion.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daimion.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.daimion.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":446,"href":"https:\/\/www.daimion.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions\/446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daimion.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daimion.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daimion.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}