Every question I ask here gets answered magically, and there seems to be an expert or 3 here for just about everything so I'll try it once again.
I want to have humidifier installed for the house. I will hire someone to do that. I'm not handy enough.
The house is a newly built 2 floor 3000 square foot house with 2 zones. And we have one forced-air heater in the basement heating the first floor and another in the attic heating the upstairs.
One contractor that we spoke with said that it is not possible to put the humidifier upstairs because the water pipe may freeze. Furthermore, he said that I do not need it upstairs, since the humidifier connected to the downstairs system will humidify the entire house.
So my questions are:
What is a healthy humidity level? (The contractor said the humidifier can do 40%. Is that high enough?)
Will having the humidifier downstairs only be sufficient for the entire house? (The contractor said that the heat will carry the moisture rich air up. I am not clear on how that will work. I'm afraid that the humidity downstairs will end up being higher than upstairs.)
Thanks for your input.
-alkaloid