forced air’s been running way more since it got cold this week, on most of the day now, not just mornings.
checked the humidity gauge before work, it read 29%. her shins were already a little tight by the time I got her dressed.
I’ve only run the humidifier at night, off by 9am, didn’t want it going all day while we’re out…
is that backwards though. should it be running during the day when the heat’s actually on, not just overnight?
that does seem backwards, since the furnace running most of the day is probably what’s actually tanking the humidity now, not the overnight hours. does the gauge recover once the humidifier kicks on in the evening or is it still low by the time she wakes up
DewyDreamer said: it does climb back up once it kicks on in the evening, but by morning before I shut it off it’s already dropping again
we switched ours to daytime once the heat kicked on and it worked way better!
honestly yeah, daytime makes more sense since that’s when the furnace is drying things out…
My furnace runs almost the whole afternoon and evening once it gets this cold, so I switched the humidifier years ago to cover whatever stretch the heat is actually on instead of just overnight. Overnight air never dried my skin out as much as the hours when the furnace was cycling, so what you’re describing with her shins sounds familiar to me.
Makes sense, our humidity dropped to 29% before work too, right when the furnace started running longer. Switching it to daytime next.
same here, mine’s been on since 8am!
is it just her shins or anywhere else too?
just her shins so far, knock on wood. it’s always right along the edge of her socks after I take them off at night. we started really watching the humidity about 2 weeks ago, keeping it closer to 40% instead of letting it drop down to 29% like it did that one day, and the tightness has backed off some since then.
yeah it should track the furnace, not the clock, ours dries out fast once heat kicks on
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