{"id":597,"date":"2016-08-08T11:00:24","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T15:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hallsair.com\/blog\/?p=597"},"modified":"2016-08-05T11:39:36","modified_gmt":"2016-08-05T15:39:36","slug":"why-shouldnt-i-just-buy-a-portable-dehumidifier-for-my-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hallsair.com\/blog\/why-shouldnt-i-just-buy-a-portable-dehumidifier-for-my-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Shouldn\u2019t I Just Buy a Portable Dehumidifier for My Home?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anybody who has lived through a summer in Louisiana knows just how <em>humid<\/em> it gets here at that time of year\u2014and high humidity makes the summer heat turn almost unbearable. A dehumidifier in a home is a great investment when it comes to both comfort and taking some of the strain off the air conditioning system. With the indoor relative humidity balanced between 30% and 50%, a house interior will feel 8\u00b0\u201310\u00b0 cooler! Plus, the house will have fewer issues with mold growth, mildew, and water damage.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->We recommend contacting our IAQ specialists to arrange for a whole-house dehumidifier installed into your home\u2019s HVAC system. However, there are portable dehumidifiers that you can purchase from retailers. Why not just go with this less expensive option? We have five good reasons why you shouldn\u2019t use a portable dehumidifier:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>First, <\/strong>portable dehumidifiers pose safety hazards. Many of these dehumidifier models have been recalled because they have started house fires. Professionally installed whole-house dehumidifiers do not pose fire risks.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Second, <\/strong>the low cost of a portable dehumidifier can be deceptive. These systems are not as energy efficient as whole-house dehumidifiers, which are centrally placed to make it easier to remove moisture from the air. You\u2019ll have to run a portable dehumidifier so often that you\u2019ll soon cancel out the savings. (Plus, they have shorter lifespans than whole-house units.)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Third, <\/strong>a portable dehumidifier only affects one room. Dragging it from room to room to try to spread around the dehumidification isn\u2019t an attractive option.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fourth, <\/strong>portable dehumidifiers will <em>add<\/em> heat to your house, since they blow heat out of the back of the unit as they operate. This is the opposite of the affect you want from this kind of appliance. A whole-house unit vents the heat it generates to the outside.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fifth, <\/strong>a portable dehumidifier makes a great deal of noise, and isn\u2019t the sort of thing you want running in your bedroom at night.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Call the Doctor of Home Comfort Today! Hall\u2019s Heating, Air Conditioning &amp; Refrigeration serves Minden, LA, and we offer installation and other services for <a href=\"\/indoor-air-quality\/dehumidifier\">whole-house dehumidifiers<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anybody who has lived through a summer in Louisiana knows just how humid it gets here at that time of year\u2014and high humidity makes the summer heat turn almost unbearable. A dehumidifier in a home is a great investment when it comes to both comfort and taking some of the strain off the air conditioning system. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[45,122],"class_list":["post-597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indoor-air-quality-service","tag-dehumidifiers","tag-minden"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hallsair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hallsair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hallsair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hallsair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hallsair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hallsair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":598,"href":"https:\/\/www.hallsair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions\/598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hallsair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hallsair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hallsair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}