We watch a couple of houses for friends. One has a humidistat that will turn on the air when the humidity gets above say 60%. He leaves his air set at 82 degrees and it doesn't smell musty.
We have another friend with no humidistat and he set his air at 82 degrees. When we checked on the house it was smelling musty on the days that the humidity was really high. We had to turn his air down to 80 degrees to remove the musty smell and left it at 80 for the rest of the summer. I can't say what is the correct way, just something to think about. Of course it is important to have someone watch the house and check for things such as this.
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