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Humidity, or lack thereof... is my heat pump making rooms drier?

 
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20/02/2026 3:10 pm  

@editor, this is now an example of greenwashing in the very best sense.

We often reach for every more advanced bits of tech to run our homes/offices/transport in more environmentally friendly ways, so it's easy to forget that going greener can sometimes be taken literally. Chez nous, we have several orchids in the bathroom because they thrive in the higher humidity and help mitigate the fact our fan extraction is less than perfect. We normally also have plants on most of our windowsills - especially those East and South facing - but especially early spring onwards since those plants are most likely to be seedlings being brought on early; either that or a forest of basil in preparation for the glut later in the season of tomatoes. We do have a spider plant, a Christmas cactus and a few succulents dotted about but generally our growing is more for eating than for decoration, not that it adversely affects the humidity control.


105 m2 bungalow in South East England
Mitsubishi Ecodan 8.5 kW air source heat pump
18 x 360W solar panels
1 x 6 kW GroWatt battery and SPH5000 inverter
1 x Myenergi Zappi
1 x VW ID3
Raised beds for home-grown veg and chickens for eggs

"Semper in excretia; sumus solum profundum variat"


   
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Topic starter 20/02/2026 4:36 pm  

Having consulted with the plant wrangler in chief, it would appear that most of the plants we have love the sunshine, hence why they are in the conservatory.  The eaves on the house are large (for snowfall purposes I think) so other rooms are much shadier.  It may be a ploy to get me down the garden centre to acquire more for her herd of course!!  But who doesn't like flowers.



   
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