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How can I humidify a room without a humidifier?
Hang out your laundry to line dry in your house rather than putting it in the dryer. This will release a lot of moisture into the air. Depending on how often you wash your clothes, this may be enough.
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How can I humidify a room without a humidifier?
'Traditional' humidifiers look like this:
It's just a ceramic container with a hook that hangs over the radiator. Fill it with water, and the water evaporates as the radiator heats it.
You can ...
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How can I humidify a room without a humidifier?
You can put many houseplants in the room, they will increase the humidity naturally. Take some pots with plants which have big leaves.
Some examples:
Fern
Spathiphyllum (Peace Lily)
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How can I humidify a room without a humidifier?
If the room is small, you can create a solution using a bucket of water and a few kg of table salt (sodium chloride or potassium chloride).
Dump a large amount of salt into the bucket, and add water ...
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How can I humidify a room without a humidifier?
Large bowl of water in the room with you.
I do this when the kids have stuffy noses/colds.
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Find out leak in airbed?
You could better use method as shown:
Using soap water
Take some soap water in a spray bottle
Inflate your air bed to full air
Close the nozzle
Spray the content from bottle(start from nozzle)
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How can I humidify a room without a humidifier?
Use a rice cooker full of water. Unlike most electric kettles it will continue to run even with the water boiling, but will turn off (or to a lower "keep warm" state) when the water runs out and the ...
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How to reduce the air humidity in a room?
Products such as damp-rid and dries-air pull moisture from the air via a chemical called calcium chloride. They are very effective but a little expensive. That chemical is also the main ingredient in ...
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Air Conditioner/Coolers best substitute
Ok so this question has been around quite some time. I'm going to answer anyway since the most effective way - from my experience - hasn't been mentioned yet.
There are lots of ways to help you deal ...
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How can I humidify a room without a humidifier?
My grandparents would set out trays of water in front of the (floor-level) ducts.
I've noticed that a large aquarium functions as a humidifier.
When I needed relief and didn't have a humidifer yet, ...
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How can I humidify a room without a humidifier?
Taking a bath, or just fill your bathtub with some water will keep your room humidified. Leave your bathroom door open after taking shower/bath to let the steam out and humidify your room.
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How to store books in less than ideal conditions?
Know thy enemy
Your books worst enemy is of course, humidity. Humidity is also conditio sine qua non for the dreaded mold that will happily munch on the cellulose leaving behind not much in the way ...
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How to get rid of bug stuck into eyes?
Today I went for visiting a hill-station spot and while returning, a tiny fly went into my eyes. Eyes started burning but somehow I drove back home. I started splashing my eyes like water pump machine ...
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Can a tissue paper make a good air filter?
tissue paper can be used as a filter for particulates in air, but because the material itself is so weak, a strong flow of air through it will cause it to tear to pieces.
In addition, even if it ...
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How to hangout with smoking dudes but not inhaling 2nd hand smoke
If it's a breezy day, stand up-wind from them.
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Inhaling less chalk dust while erasing blackboard during teaching
Assuming you are not forced to use a duster, I'd suggest cleaning the boards with water in the following way:
There are special tools designed to clean windows one is called t-bar and squeegee.
You ...
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Fix air flow in single window gallery apartment
I recommend the following, if the layout permits it:
You can buy a product called dryer duct which is a large flexible tube of corrugated aluminum which is used to connect the exhaust port of a ...
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How can I humidify a room without a humidifier?
I'm going to elaborate on Umber Ferrule's answer. Since my estate is rather cheap, I can afford to dedicate a couple of square feet to pretty large polyethylene basin like this:
Several things to ...
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How to clean air indoors
A 50 cm (20 in) cardboard-framed air filter, availblef for ~US$3, is the size of many box fans. Though electret filters are more efficient at trapping particles, I find they impede airflow too much ...
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How to clean air indoors
The particles you're worried about are too small to be trapped by an improvised filter. A vacuum cleaner won't trap these either. You really need a purpose-made HEPA filter as used in air purifiers ...
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Protect house from mould
Mold requires lots of humidity in the air to grow. The quickest way to decrease mold growth in a house is to decrease the humidity inside the house.
This usually is done by 1) circulating the air in ...
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How to improve air quality in an old storage room?
My first attempt would indeed be to inspect the wardrobes. If there's a continuous source of bad smell somewhere, you can throw all the fresh air in you want, but it will continue to come back.
On the ...
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How to clean crevices of electronics without compressed air?
To clean a keyboard, fold a post-it note in half sticky side out and drag it between the keys and it will pick up dust.
You'll probably need several to do a whole keyboard. (I have never tried it on ...
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Air Conditioner/Coolers best substitute
Your own body can be very effective cooling you if the humidity is low enough.
A de-humidifier uses coils cool enough to pull water out of the air by condensation. Then, the drier air in your ...
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How to Avert / Deflect refrigerator heat in room?
The question is: Do you need a freezer? Many people can live without one. Instead of using ice from a freezer, you can use cold water from the fridge. Since the fridge is only at about 4C, and not -...
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What are some quick ways to cool off at home, in extreme heat, if the electricity has gone out?
1.) Obtain a wire small animal cage.
2.) Install an exercise wheel inside the cage.
3.) Clip or tape several standard playing cards onto the exercise wheel in a manner of which the cards will ...
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How can I humidify a room without a humidifier?
Leave an electric kettle heating with water in it.
If you do this, however, you'll have to be vigilant for condensation on cold walls (behind dressers and bedsteads, for instance) or runoff from ...
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Inhaling less chalk dust while erasing blackboard during teaching
Damp the eraser (traps dust), tape 2 together (double-wide, fewer swipes), be deliberate & precise not vigorous (don't 'kick up a storm'), and (maybe) swipe in one direction only, away from you, ...
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Inhaling less chalk dust while erasing blackboard during teaching
If you are ready to spend a bit use Apsara Dustless White chalk or any other dustless chalks.It reduce inhalation of harmful dust and also reduces the risk of skin allergies.
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How can I improve air quality in my car?
Many modern vehicles have a cabin air filter in the heating/ac system that can be replaced. These are often out of the way, so many people don't even realize that they have them. You can also scent ...
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