During the heating season in Colorado, higher humidity allows less moisture to evaporate from your skin. As a result, your body feels warmer—and you can keep your home’s temperature a few degrees cooler. We recommend about a 35% humidity setting on your whole house humidifier for wintertime. Your family is more likely to breathe easier, and your furniture is less likely to crack.

Reduced humidity is needed in the summer, when you want to speed the evaporation of your skin’s moisture (thus releasing your body’s excess heat). A central air conditioner will remove humidity from the air as it extracts heat from your home.