There are many advantages to adding a whole-house humidifier to your Alaska home. Adding one can increase the comfort level in your home and lower your annual energy expenses. Proper humidity levels can allow you to maintain indoor comfort levels at a lower temperature which uses less energy for heating.
Air handlers are a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) unit, or AHU, that resembles a furnace in appearance, but its purpose is very different. It conditions and circulates both cool and hot air, depending on what time of year it is.
In 1919, New Jersey inventor Alice H. Parker filed a patent for the first gas-fueled furnace. Today, the basic technology is the same—only it burns less gas.