Re: It's time for many in the north to start humidifting.
I dread this time of year. The dry winter wind, coupled with heating my old house with two gas furnaces, makes it tough on everything. My sinuses dry out and I get headaches. My skin gets dry and itchy. The wood floors and stairs start to creak. I'm sure my baby grand piano hates it. My instruments all have Oasis humidifiers in their cases, and even filling them weekly doesn't seem to be enough. If I go a whole week, they'll be shriveled up and completely dried out. Usually 4-5 days seems like the optimal refill time cycle. But it gets to be a chore, having to open up all the cases and pull them all out, take them all downstairs and fill them ever-so-gently with the syringe.
I've tried running an evaporative room humidifier in my music room, but it really doesn't even make a dent in the humidity. I don't know where all the moisture goes, but I can refill the little tank every day and it'll be bone dry when I get home from work, but my hygrometer will still tell me it's only 20% RH in there, which is no different than the rest of the house.
This year I may break down and get some larger stand-alone humidifiers like Stevo75 mentioned. I put it off every year, thinking that I really don't need to do it. But I'm getting real tired of being miserable in the dry winter, even if my instruments are doing OK. A whole-house humidification system seems like a good idea, but it's too expensive when I have two furnace systems (one downstairs and another upstairs) and the A/C guys around here don't know much about installing them.
Keep that skillet good and greasy all the time!
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