Too much A/C.......

[Mus408]

So with it being to hot and humid do to anything outside much after 11:00 AM most of this week
I'm stuck inside the house where I keep it around 78 degrees.
Now with A/C running constantly during late afternoon into evening the humidity in house gets
to low causing me a sinus issue.
I just bought one of those Vicks small steamer units you hold your head over so now we can stay comfortable and I can have a clear head after a few treatments.

Come on Tuesday when we supposed to get some cooler drier air from the North!

 

[loaded round]

It's super freaking hot here too!

 

[Mobuck]

Ahhh, I got nuthin.
It's almost comfortable here at this time after a 15* temp drop(down to 80*) following the overnight rains.
I've noticed I get a scratchy throat and such when I spend several days in meetings held in totally enclosed and air conditioned buildings.

 

[Armybrat]

100f with 50% humidity?

Just another July in Texas.

 

[Muley Gil]

100f with 50% humidity?

Just another July in Texas.

Heck, I would really enjoy that low humidity when I was badge totin'. I remember one afternoon in Central Alabama when a police officer from Arizona came by to collect a prisoner. He was covered in sweat and was complaining about how hot it was. He commented about back home it was 100 degrees F, but only 20% humidity. That day, it was 95 degrees F and 95% humidity, which is a typical summer day down in Bama. That was one reason I moved to the mountains when I retired. :lol:

 

[Jeepnik]

Mid to upper 70's, humidity unkown, but pleasant.

 

[tinman]

....It's summertime........

 

[gramps]

....It's summertime........

BINGO!
gramps

 

[caryc]

I remember something about when people used to heat with an old pot bellied stove burning wood, they would often keep a pot of water on top of the stove. The boiling evaporating water would keep moisture in the air that the wood stove dried up.

 

[rkrcpa]

It's super freaking hot here too!

Ain't that the truth. I'm building a new workbench in the garage. All the doors open but still no breeze, just a small fan and Gatorade.

 

[JFB]

i WISH my AC was doing that good.
with the new refrigant, bigger outslde unit and bigger inside coils. the best it will do is drop the inlet air (75F) about 20F, thus the coils ar at 55F given about the best humity redution to 50%.

to increase the humidity in a house, I was surprised at the amout of water you need to get into the air.

for some hotels, I have placed bucket of water with towel half out with the fan blowing on it

 

[Jeepnik]

i WISH my AC was doing that good.
with the new refrigant, bigger outslde unit and bigger inside coils. the best it will do is drop the inlet air (75F) about 20F, thus the coils ar at 55F given about the best humity redution to 50%.

to increase the humidity in a house, I was surprised at the amout of water you need to get into the air.

Hmm, how about collecting the water from the air conditioner then using it to run a humidifier. Simply set up a small electric steam generator and feed the collected water to it. Then run the steam to a distributor bar in the air duct to the home.

Or you could simply run a fan powered bypass around the AC coils. Over cool the air then warm it up and humidify it to your desire. Hint, both methods are in use in large buildings.

 

[Rook]

I'm stuck inside the house where I keep it around 78 degrees.

That's to warm for me. We keep our house at 73 degrees during the summer.

 

[Tensaw]

100f with 50% humidity?

Just another July in Texas.

Heck, I would really enjoy that low humidity when I was badge totin'. I remember one afternoon in Central Alabama when a police officer from Arizona came by to collect a prisoner. He was covered in sweat and was complaining about how hot it was. He commented about back home it was 100 degrees F, but only 20% humidity. That day, it was 95 degrees F and 95% humidity, which is a typical summer day down in Bama. That was one reason I moved to the mountains when I retired. :lol:

Yes it is hot and humid here in Bama. I can only do a couple of hours of yard work in this heat. Totally soaked with sweat. I have to be careful not to get dehydrated. I sure can't handle it like i use to.

 

[Bull Barrel]

Heck, last week I went to Alabama and got away from the heat in MO.
It was humid but it rained twice daily and kept the heat down.

 

[Rick Courtright]

....It's summertime........

Hi,

Thank you!

A lady I knew retired and moved to Phoenix maybe 10 years ago. In the Spring time. Lovely weather. Got a call a few months later: "Nobody told me it gets this bloomin' hot in the summer!" Well, lessee here, you've lived in San Bernardino (CA) for 20 years: did you think it would be cooler in the middle of the desert than at the edge of the foothills? Hmmm... even before weather apps on the Interwebs or phones, one could find temps worldwide without much trouble. Is that what they call due diligence? Another woman I know also moved from here to Phoenix after she retired. Our summers are plenty warm, low 100s, but seldom rise into the 105-110 deg range for more than a day or two at a time. She said the funniest part of watching the news was listening to the weather guessers say "We're having a heat wave!" No, it's just summer. In Phoenix. Yeah, it's 115. Been like that for centuries. Deal with it...

Some times I think God made geese a whole lot smarter than humans...

Rick C

 

[Bull Barrel]

Nah, some people get jobs and are paid to be paranoid in order to get tv ratings.
Next thing ya know they will predict it will be cold in MO in January.

 

[nlocke]

Actually, the problem is that you're taking too much moisture out of the air for that temperature. Comfort level is based on the humidity relative to temperature (dew point). Like high humidity, low humidity can be uncomfortable at higher temperatures.

This is what I do and it works to keep the comfort level tolerable.
I set the thermostat to 74 at night and leave it there through the morning until I hear the AC running pretty much continually. Then I bump the thermostat up a few degrees (76-77). This gives the compressor a break and stops humidity removal. As the temperature increases and the AC comes back on, I will again wait until i think it is running continually and bump the thermostat up a few degrees. Sometimes I go as high as 82-83 degrees and it's comfortable.
The point in doing this is to allow the humidity to remain more constant in the house by the AC not running too much.
Try it.
Neal

 

[CoolLogic]

Change the fan setting on your thermostat from “AUTO” to “ON”. The AC only dehumidifies while the unit is actively cooling. The coil gets cold, the moisture moving over the coil condenses then falls down the coil and out the drain. In the AUTO mode the fan shuts off when the space temp satisfies and any moisture on the coil is allowed to go down the drain. In the ON mode the fan will continue to run after the space temp is satisfied. The coil will be wet but will stop pulling water out of the air and any water on the coil will be blown into the space. Your problem is common in residential buildings this time of year. Commercial buildings have the exact opposite problem because they are required to run the fan and bring in fresh air whenever the building is occupied.
Easy fix.
CoolLogic

 

[exavid]

In the fifties when my dad was posted to Edwards AFB on the Mojave desert we lived in a poured concrete house on base. The house was cooled with a rooftop swamp cooler. That thing worked great in the dry desert air. It also humidified the house too. That house had foot thick walls and a thick flat concrete slab roof.
Before we left there the Air Force opened new housing, modern stick built houses with real AC. We really liked having a dishwasher and garbage disposal but that house wasn't nearly as comfortable as that concrete place with the swamp cooler.

 

[vito]

I guess my years in the military trained me to complain no matter what the weather. This past winter was rough and I could hardly wait until the warm weather arrived, and now that its summer I am complaining about the heat and humidity. Generally it is the humidity that makes it uncomfortable. When I lived in El Paso, Texas half a century ago, I could tolerate 105 degrees if I were out of the direct rays of the sun, such as under the shade of a tree (there were a few trees in El Paso!). When I lived in San Antonio, with high humidity, even just 90 degrees felt almost unbearable even if you were in the shade.

Living in Illinois, with a good a/c system, I keep it really cool in my home. I have the thermostat set at 72 during the day, and dropping to 66 at night for sleeping. I have the fan set in the "On" position, summer and winter, day and night, 24/365. Keeping it "On" all the time not only helps with humidity, it keeps the ducts cleaner by always having air moving through the system, and helps prevent a barrier of hot air forming below my high ceilings (up to 18 feet in some parts of the house). My utility bills are pretty moderate because my house is apparently well insulated, I have decent windows, and the a/c and furnace system is highly efficient. So I enjoy having it cold during the summer, and warm all winter, but I can still complain daily about the outside weather conditions!

 

[bogus bill]

I was raised in wisconsin and while that is considered north it can get hot and humid. I lived the longest in lancaster california. There it gets hot. Edwards AFB is close, worked there too. I spent 32 of my 35 years working graveyard to escape the heat.
Now in my older age I am cold all the time here in utah but my wife is always complaining she`s too hot while I am freezing! Point is I believe when you get old your body tends to like more heat. Wife is almost seventeen years younger and she freeze`s me out.

 

[Jeepnik]

In the fifties when my dad was posted to Edwards AFB on the Mojave desert we lived in a poured concrete house on base. The house was cooled with a rooftop swamp cooler. That thing worked great in the dry desert air. It also humidified the house too. That house had foot thick walls and a thick flat concrete slab roof.
Before we left there the Air Force opened new housing, modern stick built houses with real AC. We really liked having a dishwasher and garbage disposal but that house wasn't nearly as comfortable as that concrete place with the swamp cooler.

Heck, Airedales were living in those same types of houses, likely built at the same time in the seventies at George AFB.