High Indoor Humidity Is Damaging These Floors: What to Look For
Too much indoor humidity and an incorrectly sized AC are making this Florida home's floors swell and lift. Here's what the damage looks like.
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When indoor humidity stays too high and the AC isn't sized correctly, it doesn't just feel sticky. It damages the house. In this Florida home, the flooring is swelling and lifting in the kitchen and the bedrooms, with visible bulges where the boards are pushing up.
All of it comes from humidity, and the longer humidity stays high, the worse the damage gets. A system designed for the home controls humidity along with temperature, which protects your floors, cabinets and furniture as well as your comfort.
Video Transcript
George: When you have too much humidity in the house and the units are not sized correctly, they start to damage the floors, as you can see right here. Now we come over here to the other floors. You see them? This is all caused by humidity, all of it. The kitchen floors, see them? In the bedroom, you see they're starting to come up right over here. See that little bulge right here? This one isn't as bad, but you can still tell there's a bulge here. The more humidity, the worse that's going to get. See the bulge there.
