{"id":37777,"date":"2014-09-10T10:24:06","date_gmt":"2014-09-10T10:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leedpoints.com\/?guid=a077518a7943b9d2e71597528b4621a7"},"modified":"2014-09-10T10:24:06","modified_gmt":"2014-09-10T10:24:06","slug":"how-your-thermostat-can-grow-mold-and-make-you-uncomfortable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/how-your-thermostat-can-grow-mold-and-make-you-uncomfortable\/","title":{"rendered":"How Your Thermostat Can Grow Mold and Make You Uncomfortable"},"content":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>Subtitle:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n                    This setting on your air conditioner&#8217;s thermostat is really bad in humid climates        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>Images:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/blogs\/dept\/building-science\/how-your-thermostat-can-grow-mold-and-make-you-uncomfortable\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/air-conditioner-thermostat-fan-on-temperature.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Temperature and humidity data in the Bailes condo\" width=\"144\" height=\"98\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been experimenting with my family lately. Or is it, experimenting <em>on<\/em> my family? In either case, I&#8217;ve got the data to confirm something I wrote in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.energyvanguard.com\/blog-building-science-HERS-BPI\/bid\/38619\/Don-t-Set-Your-Air-Conditioner-Thermostat-Like-This\" title=\"article back in 2011\">2011 article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But before I tell you what I did, first let me show you what happened. In the graph at right, you can see Exhibit A: a moisture mystery. What do you think happened to cause the humidity (blue data) in the air in our condo to rise like that?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/blogs\/dept\/building-science\/how-your-thermostat-can-grow-mold-and-make-you-uncomfortable\" target=\"_blank\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2899,12806,12807,12808,6258,7562],"class_list":["post-37777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green-building-posts","tag-air-conditioner","tag-air-handler-fan","tag-dehumidification","tag-fan-on","tag-humidity","tag-mold"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}