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the wicks my humidifier uses are sold out everywhere even on amazon so after a half hour of digging i was able to find some on menards. thanks, menards
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PIZZA.BAT posted:the wicks my humidifier uses are sold out everywhere even on amazon so after a half hour of digging i was able to find some on menards. thanks, menards
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I have a whole house humidifier attached to the furnace. A previous home owner turned it up to max and it ruined the paint in my attic. That's my humidifier story.
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am i mixing up "humid" with something else or are you all creeps who like feeling like you're breathing jello
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hbag posted:am i mixing up "humid" with something else or are you all creeps who like feeling like you're breathing jello humidifier runs return air through a perforated aluminum panel with water running through it. Previous owner turned it up to max so the water never stopped running. I didn't think to check it so it ran like that for weeks before I went up to the attic and noticed condensation on all the walls. good stuff.
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Jan 12, 2022 14:59
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mystes posted:I think you're good to need mormony than that
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hbag posted:am i mixing up "humid" with something else or are you all creeps who like feeling like you're breathing jello in the winter the air gets so dry here that people regularly get nose bleeds so you need something constantly blasting moisture into the air just to keep it at what would be considered the bare minimum for comfort
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hbag posted:am i mixing up "humid" with something else or are you all creeps who like feeling like you're breathing jello
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they are good when its really dry in the winter
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Jan 12, 2022 15:00
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You can also use a hot water heating system to avoid the dryness issue, but they aren't compatible with air conditioning so no one installs them here anymore. I sorta miss hot water heat.
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Jan 12, 2022 15:01
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do you guys mean dehumiddifiers or wtf
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dehumidifiers are for basements in the summer
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:You can also use a hot water heating system to avoid the dryness issue, but they aren't compatible with air conditioning so no one installs them here anymore. With steam you can have the radiators let some steam out but it sucks in other ways (e.g. it can be insanely noisy from the pipes creaking)
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mystes posted:Do you mean steam? I didn't think hot water would help with humidity They call it hot water heat here and forced air heat exacerbates the dryness problem, even if you don't have your radiators set to let a little steam out they aren't drying the air out through the heat process. Every house I've ever lived in except this one had hot water heat and I miss it.
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mystes posted:Do you mean steam? I didn't think hot water would help with humidity no he means homes in the northeast used to have forced hot air heating, which works but the air in your house gets incredibly dry and it sucks. so you put in a humidifier to bring the humidity back up to livable range. then later people started using hot water baseboard heating, basically a bunch of hot water pipes running along the floor. theres no steam. it just radiates heat from the hot water using a water boiler. it doesnt add humidity but it doesnt dry out the air like forced hot air
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Steam and hot water are too different things (normally; i don't know about the nomenclature in pittsburgh) In NYC for example most of the older apartment buildings use actual steam. It's noisy as gently caress and the radiators can release some steam into the room. In older houses in a lot of places in New England it's common to use hot water (not steam). mystes fucked around with this message at 15:15 on Jan 12, 2022 |
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bump_fn posted:do you guys mean dehumiddifiers or wtf you’re supposed to know physics
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i basically leavea dehumidifier running 24/7 becasue london lol
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we used to have an old 1950s giant humidifier, it was the size of a chest freezer. i'd have to pour water into the tank every morning and night. i also used to sit over the hot air vents in the winter and my shirt would inflate with hot air and i'd love it i remember when my parents upgraded the heating to hot water baseboard heating and the house felt nicer. no more nosebleeds and we tossed the humidifier
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this cursed island has poisoned my brain. i forgot it was possible to have dry air
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mystes posted:You call steam hot water in Pittsburgh? Normally hot water refers to a system where the water isn't hot enough to turn into steam so it can't be released by the radiators and I guess it's basically heated the same way as the hot water for the house. in maine we called it "hot water baseboard" heating. never heard anyone call it steam heating. i associated steam heating with the places in big cities like new york where they had pipes coming in from the utility company or something, not just from a water boiler in your own house
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mystes posted:Steam and hot water are too different things (normally; i don't know about the nomenclature in pittsburgh) Get this, they call bologna "jumbo" in Pittsburgh
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i live at an inlet of a large river into a sea, and air humidity in my flat has been around 25% for 2 months now
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did we ever figure out why smoka thought their apartment was weird for having a breaker box
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My last apartment had radiators like these  and I miss them
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steam radiator heating and forced hot water baseboard heating are two very different things lol
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fart simpson posted:no he means homes in the northeast used to have forced hot air heating, which works but the air in your house gets incredibly dry and it sucks. so you put in a humidifier to bring the humidity back up to livable range. Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:My last apartment had radiators like these
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mystes posted:The air is really dry in the winter if you just heat it up. You can ideally use a humidifier without turning the whole house into a jungle.
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Captain Foo posted:did we ever figure out why smoka thought their apartment was weird for having a breaker box some electricians were doing something unrelated to smoka’s apartment via it, or something like that
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steam radiators suck immense rear end
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mystes posted:He said that hot water radiators helped with humidity which is why I'm confused he meant they dont hurt the humidity like forced hot air does
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Captain Foo posted:steam radiator heating and forced hot water baseboard heating are two very different things lol They call it "hot water" everywhere I've lived. *shrug* Captain Foo posted:steam radiators suck immense rear end I sorta miss the banging and cats like them
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Why do we park on a driveway and drive on a parkway? Who knows
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:Get this, they call bologna "jumbo" in Pittsburgh thats because cities in the northeast are older and actually had time to develop differences and local culture. cities in the west are all exactly the same.
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fart simpson posted:he meant they dont hurt the humidity like forced hot air does Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:They call it hot water heat here...even if you don't have your radiators set to let a little steam out
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I'm going through house listings in my zip code to find some of the old radiator setups and every single listing I'm finding has all the radiators torn out and forced air retrofitted in. fuckers
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:My last apartment had radiators like these one place i lived in in chicago had these adn they were so loving noisy. just rattlign all night even when turned down as low as possible. real cool
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:I'm going through house listings in my zip code to find some of the old radiator setups and every single listing I'm finding has all the radiators torn out and forced air retrofitted in. fuckers If I bought a house with hot water I would probably just leave it and install mini-splits personally. bump_fn posted:one place i lived in in chicago had these adn they were so loving noisy. just rattlign all night even when turned down as low as F I have lived in other places where it wasn't that bad though.
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