This summer has been one of the most humid that I can never recall.
- Even when the temperatures are not that high, such as in the sixties and seventies at night, the humidity level is still way up in the eighty to ninety percent.
It seems that we’re on our portable air conditioning units on dehumidify more than cooling just to try to make the house comfortable. Normally when the temperatures drop that low at night we can simply open the windows and enjoy the night air but that is not the case this year. Our energy usage for the summer has almost tripled due to the fact that we have the units running not stop. We are also concerned about how the units will respond and if they will continue to operate because of their constant use. We purchased them several years ago from the local hardware store and they have been great as far as intermittent cooling is concerned. However, I don’t think that any of them are meant to run as often as they are now and I feel we may have to replace them next year if this keeps up. We were concerned about the fact that the coolant might need to be recharged but when I called the local HVAC dealer they said that as long as we were just using them for dehumidification they should be fine. I sure hope that the weather pattern changes and we get some relief soon because I know that we, along with our portable air conditioning units, could use a break.