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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)
Additional ...
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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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Does boiling tap water make it potable?
OK, I'm going to go out on a limb here...
To answer the question directly, the answer is an emphatic No.
If there is something 'wrong' with the water to start with, then simple boiling in a kettle ...
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Showering while avoiding patch to get wet
Don't downvote, hear me out...
Take a latext condom. Cut the tip/end off.
Roll/slip the condom over the patch.
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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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How to save the water wasted while waiting for the shower to heat up?
This solution only works if you have a separate bathtub in your bathroom.
I'm pretty sure that all the water for your bathroom (shower, sink, toilet tank, bathtub) comes from the water heater to your ...
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How to dry shoes quickly after washing them?
Speaking from experience on the farm, during the winter months where our shoes/boots would get soaked from melting snow and needing them dry for the next day: putting them on/near a furnace register ...
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How can I keep the interior of my car dry while driving in the rain?
Frankly, the solution is simple: Don't smoke in the car.
Obvious health and financial benefits aside, there's some more benefits:
You don't need to buy anything to prevent rain from entering your ...
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How to freeze water more quickly
Try to ditch commen sense and go for science!
1. Use hot water as your starting point.
Exploit the Mpemba-effect:
Since there is some debate about the effect, whether it is real or not: the ...
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How to Dry Small, Freshly-Washed Produce (Blueberries, Raspberries, Grapes, etc.)
Salad spinners are one of those more useful multipurpose tools in your kitchen.
You can wash the berries inside spinner itself, pour off the dirty water, then spin-dry to remove the excess water. ...
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How to get water out of ears?
One of my lifeguarding buddies shared this one with me. Just turn your head sideways (so your ear is facing the ground) and jump up and down a couple times. Comes right out, and it works pretty quick, ...
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Magnet in shower: How to protect against rust
Waterproofing (rust-proofing) magnets is a common application in aquarium environments where you want to attach various fixtures to a glass/acrylic fish tank with a pair of magnets. You can actually ...
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How to cross a river on foot?
General advices in order to cross a river
Scout Around
Invest a little time in finding the best place to make your crossing. Avoid bends in the river, where water whips around the fastest. Once you ...
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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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Bringing the cold water to room temperature
Bring to work sufficient bottles to cover an entire day's supply.
Fill them in the evening with cold water.
The next day they will be the correct temperature, all day.
Repeat by refilling in the ...
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How to stay at the bottom at a swimmingpool
Paparazzi's suggestion from comments, to dive with a weight (not bound to your body, for safety reasons -- the weight should drop away when you straighten to push off for the surface, at the least) ...
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How to get rid of bad odour coming out of a water bottle?
In addition to Paparazzi's obvious but necessary "clean them in warm soapy water" periodically...
We get the same thing with re-usable SodaStream bottles which are only ever plain water, fizzed.
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Does boiling tap water make it potable?
From this link to REI
Boiling is not going to remove heavy metals or other toxic chemicals but a filter is also not effective against most heavy metals or toxic chemicals.
Your stove, fuel and a ...
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How to open car door when lock is frozen?
I hope this is obvious - but you don't mention it in your question: Try all the doors and the boot first. I've usually found that one of the doors will open in this situation. If you have to enter the ...
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How to clean my humidifier
Limescale can be dissolved by acids.
Vinegar essence is a popular cleaning agent because it doesn't leave residues, but it smells quite pungent.
Citric acid works just as well and doesn't smell. Do ...
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Removing water stuck inside a double glass cup
My glasses are conventional borosilicate glasses which each has a tiny hole sealed with a hardly visible silicon plug on the bottom. Most double-wall glass coffee mugs are like that. When washed at ...
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Shower head vertical on holder. What to do?
Perhaps you can reposition the head, and its spray direction, by
rotating the hose clamp by 90° (shower head is now horizontal)
sliding the clamp further up the support (shower head is higher)
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Is there a way to avoid condensation of water on the inside of window panes?
Condensation is caused by warm humid air cooling down. You can affect different parts of this process.
The first thing to do is to reduce the humidity, especially as it sounds like you have very ...
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How to stop rim of water bottle becoming smelly?
The problem isn't the bottle or the lid in general. It is the gasket inside the lid. The gasket is an o-ring seal that keeps the bottle air tight.
The gasket is the most neglected part in terms ...
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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 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 to keep planted seeds watered permanently?
There are several ways to do this:
Water globes:
These are containers of water with a narrow opening that you fill and stick into the soil. Commercial ones can be very attractive, and advertise as ...
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Bringing the cold water to room temperature
Microwave the cold water to temp.
The temperature of a water coolers is pretty consistent. If you have your favorite glass or plastic tumbler (a known quantity of water), then you'll get to know ...
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