Save Energy - Use your Humidistat

Do you find your heating bills are quite a bit higher during the winter months? One way of keeping heating costs down is to limit the amount of humidity in your homes air. If you have a humidistat control (often located close to a central bathroom) make sure it is set to 50% during the winter months. What will happen is that the bathroom fan will run until the switch senses 50% humidity and then turn off. Drier air takes less energy to heat thus your furnace will run less often. If you don't have a humidistat control you can choose to have one installed by a licenced electrician, or run your bathroom and or kitchen exhaust fans for an hour a day. When cooking (which can add lots of humidity) make sure you run your kitchen fan. When showering or bathing make sure you run the bathroom fan for at least half an hour afterwards. The small cost of running the fans will be more than compensated by the savings in heating.