Every house in our development has high humidity problems. In the winter, I can drive down our street and see condensation on everyone's windows. Houses were built in 1985-ish. All 2 or 3 levels splits. I've been able to mitigate by installing an cheaper HRV, and supplementing with a small dehumidifier when needed so we keep the humidity down around 50%. We just had our windows replaced, and I am a bit uneasy due to the new windows being sealed better and causing our humidity to go up in spite of the HRV and dehumidifier. What is a good way to figure out where the humidity is coming from? Should I replace the cheapie HRV with a super fancy one, or replace with a heavy duty whole house dehumidifier? Or do both? Any other options?
FluffyBunnySlippers 0 points 7 months ago
That would be my guess too, probably a high water table. MN is land of 10,000 lakes. Seal and dehumidify is about all one can do