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Originally Posted by George Bieniaszek
Totally agree with all the posters and cannot add any additional comments that were not addressed. We do not do all the things that were mentioned, but other than unplugging expensive toys and appliances, turning the water and ice maker off, putting the garage door opener on the "lock" position and turning the Humidistat on to eliminate any mold issues in the CYV.
Because our CYV would be empty a couple of times each year and up to 3 months during the summer, one of the first things we added was a Humidistat through Munn's. I think it cost around $100 and you will save that in electric costs very quickly.
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I think a humidistat is very important especially if you have wood or laminate floors. We checked on a friend's house when he was out of town and he had his humidistat set too high and his wooden engineered floors were very sticky and the house smelled moldy. He has his air set at 80 degrees and the humidistat set at 75%. We turned down the humidistat to 50% and the air down to 78 degrees and everything went back to normal after a day or so.