ips to Lower Indoor Humidity to Prevent Mold

Mold loves moisture. Humidity, then, is like a welcome mat for this dangerous organism. Conversely, controlling or even eliminating your indoor humidity can keep mold at bay, but how, in the hotter seasons, is it possible to do so? Here are 5 tips to lower indoor humidity to prevent mold.

 

1.    Avoid Cooking During High Temperatures

 

Hot pancakes, sizzling bacon, and butter melting on toast—few things satisfy more wholly than a hot breakfast. During the summer, however, it might be better to forgo cooking until nightfall. While the sun is up, there’s greater risk of humidity building in your home. It might not be enough to make you uncomfortable, which makes it all the more dangerous: Building humidity, little by little, over time is the perfect brew for growing mold.

 

2.    Dry Your Clothes at Night

 

In the summertime, your dryer is the second-greatest source of humidity in your home. Thanks to daylight savings, summer days are much longer than winter ones, keeping the sun high in the sky for longer periods and keeping the average temperatures high too. If you dry your clothes during the day, you’re creating a terrarium for mold. Wait until the sun goes down to dry your clothes.

 

3.    Change Your Showering Habits

 

While your dryer takes second place for humidity production in your home, your shower is the unbeaten first place winner: a domesticated waterfall of steaming hot water that temporarily fogs your bathroom mirror but more extensively holds moisture in your home. As with the other suggestions above, you can reduce the humidity in your home by showering at cooler times of the day. However, you can also change your showering habits in a few other ways to decrease humidity levels like turning on the bathroom fan, taking shorter showers, or switching to baths during the summer.

 

4.    Seal Your Windows

 

Your windows are a more surprising source of moisture. If you find condensation droplets on your windows, even if you’re following the above suggestions fairly studiously, then you likely have air leaks in your window sealant. This cultivates humidity by allowing the hot summer air to seep into your air-conditioned home. If you replace the sealant around your windows, then you can reduce moisture and prevent mold.

 

5.    Get a Dehumidifier

 

This thought has likely already crossed your mind, but after reading mixed reviews of effectiveness, you may have let it pass. Or, it’s possible that you already own a dehumidifier but found that it didn’t work as well as you’d hoped. If you’re taking the above tips into account, then a dehumidifier will bring much better results. Add one to your online shopping cart or take it out of storage to make mold feel unwelcome in your home.

 

Found Mold in Your Home? Call RestoPros

 

Sometimes, despite our best efforts, mold still finds its way into our homes, or maybe you’re only reading this article because you’ve discovered mold. These 5 tips to lower indoor humidity to prevent mold will help you moving forward, but they won’t eliminate mold that has already made itself at home in your house. If you’ve found mold, call the mold remediation experts at RestoPros right away.