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- From: meir@watson.ibm.com (Meir Laker)
- Subject: forced-hot-air vs baseboard heating: is it really "drier" heat?
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 18:40:18 GMT
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- New construction in our area seems to have baseboard heating as
- opposed to forced-hot-air heating.
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- The reason: "conventional" wisdom has it that baseboard heating dries
- out a house less than forced-hot-air heating, significantly less so
- that a humidifier is not needed (besides the fact that a humidifier
- could not be installed without duct work).
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- Is this true?
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- I have always thought that the main source of winter dryness is the
- difference in relative humidity between the outside cold air and the
- inside warm air. If so, it would seem to me irrelevant how the air is
- heated. (A rise in temparature from 20 degrees to 70 degrees is going
- to cause the relative humidity to drop the same amount no matter the
- source of the heat.)
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- If so, it would seem to make more sense installing forced-hot-air
- heating and adding a humidifier.
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- Meir Laker
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