RE: Alertness, simple steps can help prevent costly summer indoor mold

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>> To help prevent indoor mold growth, especially where fewer

people are around, Cochrane recommends turning on the heating system

briefly when hot humid conditions arise.>>>

Think this really would work when it's 100 degrees with 99 percent humidity?

Rather than keeping the A/C running I should turn off the A/C and turn on

the furnace for minutes, hours?

Rosie

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On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 21:58:02 -0600, you wrote:

>Think this really would work when it's 100 degrees with 99 percent humidity?

>Rather than keeping the A/C running I should turn off the A/C and turn on

>the furnace for minutes, hours?

Rosie,

I think this suggestion was for northern locations in unoccupied

buildings. I would think if you are running the ac with the windows

closed this is a far superior method of removing moisture and

preventing mold. I would think it would even be so in the cases

mentioned in this article. Running heat does not remove moisture from

your home like ac does. That's what the condensate pan is for is to

collect the condensate and pipe it outside. Heaters don't need one

because they don't remove any moisture. They just hide it or repel

it. Through the physics of temperature and dew point which I have a

very limited knowledge of. I could be all wrong here. Maybe someone

with more knowledge on this subject could chime in. I would think a

far superior way to control humidity in an unoccupied building would

be a dehumidifier or ac. I am not saying that this won't work, you

are forcing the moisture away from the heat. But where does it go? I

would think collecting it and removing it would be superior. But I am

sure the people who wrote that article are a lot smarter than me so

maybe they know something I don't.

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yes, and if mold is in your home, good possability its in your duck

work to. I would not even use central air. I would put in a few AC

window units and keep them clean. I allready found that a window unit

can help by cleaning your air and removeing

humidity.

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> >Think this really would work when it's 100 degrees with 99 percent

humidity?

> >Rather than keeping the A/C running I should turn off the A/C and

turn on

> >the furnace for minutes, hours?

>

> Rosie,

> I think this suggestion was for northern locations in unoccupied

> buildings. I would think if you are running the ac with the windows

> closed this is a far superior method of removing moisture and

> preventing mold. I would think it would even be so in the cases

> mentioned in this article. Running heat does not remove moisture

from

> your home like ac does. That's what the condensate pan is for is to

> collect the condensate and pipe it outside. Heaters don't need one

> because they don't remove any moisture. They just hide it or repel

> it. Through the physics of temperature and dew point which I have a

> very limited knowledge of. I could be all wrong here. Maybe

someone

> with more knowledge on this subject could chime in. I would think a

> far superior way to control humidity in an unoccupied building would

> be a dehumidifier or ac. I am not saying that this won't work, you

> are forcing the moisture away from the heat. But where does it go?

I

> would think collecting it and removing it would be superior. But I

am

> sure the people who wrote that article are a lot smarter than me so

> maybe they know something I don't.

>

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