Adding a whole-house Plumber Cape Coral, FL humidifier to your heating and air conditioning system is a project you can do yourself to improve your air quality and comfort.
These easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions and photos will show you how to install, operate, maintain and understand your furnace humidifier, using an Aprilaire 600M unit as an example.
Thinking About Buying A Whole-House Humidifier?
The cost of having a heating and cooling professional install a humidifier can be unreasonable. If you’re doing it yourself, you can expect to spend around $250 for the unit and the necessary installation materials. Even if you have to purchase a tool or two, it’s worth it: if you have an HVAC contractor perform the installation for you, the cost will in the neighborhood of $400-$500, if not more.
What You Need for Installation
Now that we’ve decided adding a humidifier is a good and affordable idea, let’s get started with installing a unit ourselves using a rather basic Aprilaire humidifier as an example. If you’re going to hire a heating and cooling service provider for your install, perhaps you’ll want to skip down to the maintenance and humidity control sections of this page.
Where to Install a Humidifier
Before we start cutting holes into our ductwork, we need to decide where we’re going to install our humidifier. Your options may be limited by your existing heating and cooling system setup. Again, I suggest you follow this example installation to the end to have a good understanding of what you will be doing and then make your decision.
Here are a few things to keep in mind—I’ve applied them to this home humidifier install.
Mount the unit on the return air duct whenever possible. You can mount to the supply side, but the system works much better on the return side and poses less of a threat to your furnace, should there ever be a malfunction involving water and electrical components.
Make sure there is enough room above the unit to mount your humidistat. It’s suggested to be at least 6″ above the unit.
Try to make the bypass connection as short and straight as possible.
Aprilaire units are able to be flipped around so that the bypass can be on either side.
Be sure you have room to remove the unit’s cover, water pad/panel, and other parts for easy maintenance and repair in the future.
Visualize your drain path to be sure you’ll be able to maintain a downward slope towards its destination. This ensures proper drainage and prevents stagnant water from building up in the line. Again, the shorter, the better.
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