Too much rain and moisture

As much as I enjoy the sound of rain drops of the rooftop, there is such a thing as too much precipitation. After enough days of nonstop rain, it gets pretty old, and after a couple of weeks you grow to resent the rain for keeping you trapped inside. I really think I need to move to a different part of the country, because the novelty of the rain is fading fast. It’s not just the fact that my kids and I can’t go outside and play as much as we want to, there is more to it than that. All this dampness in the air seeps into the house, and we need to run a dehumidifier basically all the time to counteract that moisture. This area has next to zero humidity, at least the hot kind of humidity, but all the rain acts like a giant humidifier, and I’ve been noticing mold growing in the corners. I guess that having one dehumidifier is not enough, but I don’t want to pay for a second one. My neighbor says I should run the central HVAC system a little bit, to get the air circulating through the house. Running the AC for an hour or so a day seems like the smart play, allowing the damp air to run through the air filter a few times. That combined with the dehumidifier should be enough to keep the mold from spreading in my house. If it isn’t, then I’ll just bite the bullet and buy another dehumidifier to keep upstairs with me.

 

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