Aprilaire Humidifier Small Bypass w/ Manual Control for Whole Home

Overview for Aprilaire 500M

Aprilaire humidifiers provide maximum comfort throughout your entire home - every hour, every day, all season long, without the mess and inconvenience of portables. Heating your indoor air dries out your skin. This not only makes you feel itchy but can also make you feel chilly. This cold effect is not the only discomfort caused by too dry air. Annoying static electricity is another indication of low humidity levels. Proper relative humidity (RH) will reduce this discomfort.

The Aprilaire Humidifier Model: 500M keeps it simple

Humidification is the process of adding moisture to the air. Moisture is one of the most important aspects of total indoor comfort, yet it's one of the least understood. Maybe this is because people associate humidity with the discomfort of hot, steamy summer days. It’s true that too much humidity causes problems yet when properly controlled, humidity offers many proven benefits to your health, home and comfort.

Using the Aprilaire Humidifier 500M is one of the most effective ways to add the proper amount of humidity to your indoor air and prevent the problems caused by dry air.

Reduction of Relative Humidity Causes Dry Air

This problem is especially prevalent during the winter heating season. This is because the relative humidity (RH) of the cold, outdoor air drops significantly when brought into your home and heated. Adding the Aprilaire Humidifier 500M to any heating or air conditioning system allows you the ability to proactively control the needs of your comfort during the seasons.

Did you know that Dry Air Can Damage Your Family’s Health and Home?

Physicians and other experts often recommend humidity control to prevent the damaging effects of dry air caused by low relative humidity. Low humidity can increase your likelihood of getting colds, flu and other upper respiratory ailments. Viruses that cause colds and flu thrive in low humidity. And, according to The American Society of Otolaryngology, dry air can make people more susceptible to infection. Drier air can also aggravate allergy and asthma symptoms. Low humidity doesn’t only affect your family it can cause home damage as well. It causes walls, woodwork, and your beautiful hardwood floors to crack. Electronics can fall victim to static electric charges, requiring expensive repair or replacement. Low humidity can cause higher energy costs. Low humidity can make you feel too cold at normal temperatures leading you to turn up the thermostat. This leads to higher energy bills.

The Aprilaire Humidifier 500M Can Help

The Aprilaire humidifier 500M is designed to deliver the perfect amount of moisture to your home, minimizing the ill effects of dry air and making you more comfortable at lower thermostat settings.

In turn, this will save you money. According to the EPA, every degree you lower your thermostat can result in 4% savings on your heating bill. Every little bit helps in the grand scheme of savings, not only will the Aprilaire Humidifier 500M aid in this but so can a new Goodman Air Conditioner or Goodman Heating system such as a Gas Furnace with up to 98% AFUE.

Why Choose the Aprilaire Humidifier Model: 500M?

The Aprilaire Humidifier 500M Installs directly to your home's central heating and cooling system, a humidifier provides whole-home comfort—unlike portable units that only address certain rooms.

Too much humidity can be as much of a problem as too little humidity. Unlike portable units, this Aprilaire Humidifier 500M continually monitors relative humidity levels and then delivers the perfect amount of moisture to the air throughout your entire home.

Aprilaire offers both evaporative and steam humidifiers that introduce humidity into your home's air in the form of water vapor, which prevents minerals from entering the air in your home and potentially into your lungs.

Aprilaire is considered as the Inventors of Whole-Home Humidifiers

Aprilaire whole-home humidifiers were introduced in 1954 as the first truly effective whole-home humidifier. Since then, Aprilaire Humidifiers have been imitated but never duplicated. Today, Aprilaire continues to lead the way in delivering whole-home humidity as well as Total Comfort solutions.