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It's all about the humidity level inside and outside your home. Relative humidity is the ratio of the amount of water vapor in the air, compared to the maximum amount of water vapor the air can hold at that particular temperature. In simplest terms, it's a ratio of the air's water vapor content to its capacity. Relative Humidity is called "Relative" for a reason. Relative Humidity is a comparison of the amount of moisture in your air, versus the temperature of the air. Basically, warm air can carry much more moisture than cool air can. When air, with a specific amount of moisture content, is at the temperature where it reaches 100% saturation, the air must begin to release moisture. Meaning that 100% saturation is also 100% relative humidity. 100% Relative Humidity is also known as the Dew Point. When the weatherman tells you that the dew point is 65 degrees, he is saying that when the air temperature reaches the dew point the air will be 100% saturated with moisture and that the excess moisture will be "released" by the air. The result is morning dew on the ground, your car, your home, your tools the kids left out on the ground and last but not least your windows. If the evening temperature does not reach 65 degrees (or cooler of course), then the air will not be fully saturated and you will see no morning dew. Hope this makes some sense!
Another problem that we run into here in the cold Minnesota Winters is moisture on the inside glass after installation. Here's the scenario:
Some of us installers use non heated space to store our windows before their installation date (since heating is a great deal of money). As most of you know we get some real cold periods of the Winter when it goes Sub-Zero here in MN. Now please keep in mind we generally won't do any installations if it goes below zero. But when we get around that 10 above zone it's a go for the installation. We then pull the windows from the cold storage and install them for the customer. Ounce we finish we always receive a call soon after complaining of moisture on the inside of the glass on cold mornings. Then the moisture goes away when the sun comes up. What happens here is the stored windows that have been in the cold for so long now have to acclimate to having one side warm, and the other side ice cold. The Insulated Glass Unit (IGU) is so well sealed that it takes a great deal of time for the inside air space of the IGU to acclimate to its surroundings. In some cases it takes months to correct itself. So don't get alarmed if this happens on a cold weather installation!!!
It's all about the humidity level inside and outside your home. Relative humidity is the ratio of the amount of water vapor in the air, compared to the maximum amount of water vapor the air can hold at that particular temperature. In simplest terms, it's a ratio of the air's water vapor content to its capacity. Relative Humidity is called "Relative" for a reason. Relative Humidity is a comparison of the amount of moisture in your air, versus the temperature of the air. Basically, warm air can carry much more moisture than cool air can. When air, with a specific amount of moisture content, is at the temperature where it reaches 100% saturation, the air must begin to release moisture. Meaning that 100% saturation is also 100% relative humidity. 100% Relative Humidity is also known as the Dew Point. When the weatherman tells you that the dew point is 65 degrees, he is saying that when the air temperature reaches the dew point the air will be 100% saturated with moisture and that the excess moisture will be "released" by the air. The result is morning dew on the ground, your car, your home, your tools the kids left out on the ground and last but not least your windows. If the evening temperature does not reach 65 degrees (or cooler of course), then the air will not be fully saturated and you will see no morning dew. Hope this makes some sense!
Another problem that we run into here in the cold Minnesota Winters is moisture on the inside glass after installation. Here's the scenario:
Some of us installers use non heated space to store our windows before their installation date (since heating is a great deal of money). As most of you know we get some real cold periods of the Winter when it goes Sub-Zero here in MN. Now please keep in mind we generally won't do any installations if it goes below zero. But when we get around that 10 above zone it's a go for the installation. We then pull the windows from the cold storage and install them for the customer. Ounce we finish we always receive a call soon after complaining of moisture on the inside of the glass on cold mornings. Then the moisture goes away when the sun comes up. What happens here is the stored windows that have been in the cold for so long now have to acclimate to having one side warm, and the other side ice cold. The Insulated Glass Unit (IGU) is so well sealed that it takes a great deal of time for the inside air space of the IGU to acclimate to its surroundings. In some cases it takes months to correct itself. So don't get alarmed if this happens on a cold weather installation!!!
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