Okay, so you know that feeling when you walk into your house and the air just feels wrong? It sounds weird, but just bear with this explanation for just a moment. Like it’s not warm, but it feels warm in that annoying sticky way. Which honesty, just feels kind of gross, right? Oh, and the windows look a little foggy for no reason. And your hair suddenly decides it wants to expand. In a weird way, it's like your house is breathing on you.
But yeah, you didn’t just shower, and it’s not even hot or humid outside. Well, chances are, it might have something to do with your plumbing, and as you know, you need to do what you can to take care of your plumbing, but there’s some other factors in this too.
Moisture Hides in Places that Make No Sense
Which is both the annoying part and the scary part, too. But yeah, it hides. It lurks. It does its own thing behind walls, under floors, around pipes, in crawl spaces that no one’s visited since the day they moved in. And the wild thing is that you don’t need a dramatic leak for humidity to rise. Like, sure, that makes complete and total sense to actually think that, but even a small drop (well, a tad more than that) can actually make a big difference.
But essentially, one little spot of condensation, one pipe that isn’t insulated properly, and yeah, it’ll spread through the air like it owns the place. Are there any crawl spaces in your home? Because those lack ventilation and they’re always damp, so that basically means all those tiny gaps, well, humidity will get through.
Bathrooms are Almost Always the Biggest Culprit
Just in the intro on here, plumbing was mentioned, and yes, that and your bathroom are entirely connected here. As you already know, showers are the ultimate humidity machines. You take one hot shower, and it’s basically like your entire upstairs feels like it needs a dehumidifier. And if the bathroom fan’s old, weak, or badly installed, it does absolutely nothing. But it’s not just that, it all still traces back to plumbing.
This surprises so many people because plumbing issues don’t always look dramatic at first, as in, no puddles or whatever, but again, it just takes a drip, or even a pipe behind a wall sweating, or a valve not even sealed. Yeah, those sorts of things. Which is why it can’t be stressed enough to call for help or even just annual maintenance checks, like from Bluefrog Plumbing, for example, so you can figure out this humidity problem once and for all.
But Don’t Forget About the Kitchen
Oh yeah, don’t get started on kitchens. They’re just as guilty as the bathroom because of the boiling water, steaming food, running the dishwasher, all that water in the air just builds and sits there. If your kitchen windows fog up even a little, humidity’s already won.
Then there’s the HVAC
Sometimes the house feels humid because the air just isn’t moving. But why? Well, the filters get old, ducts get dusty, or the system’s not pulling moisture out the way it should. So, the air gets trapped, meaning that the moisture gets trapped. And yeah, then the whole place gets that sticky film feeling.
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