Like I have stated in past posts its not always easy in this part of the country to add a humidifier, here I have a customer that is required by his doctor to bring up their humidity in their home and I was called to make that happen.
Existing Trane Furnace Without Humidifier.
As you can see in the picture above that there is no room below the furnace to add much of anything never mind a Honeywell TrueSTEAM humidifier. I thought about the remote mount kit from Honeywell but I would still have no room to do even that.
New Honeywell 9.0 GPD Humidifier Installed
So the only solution is to raise the furnace and install a taller base can, then installing the Honeywell TrueSTEAM humidifier on to that base can. As you can see I raised the unit about 26″ and extended the gas line and shortened the return and venting. I also had to replace the existing thermostat with a Honeywell VisionIAQ, This thermostat can handle both the heating and humidity.
The reason I chose a 9.0 GPD versus a 6.0 is because of the hardwood floors that are under the rugs. I have been encountered problems using the recommended size chart that Honeywell recommends when it comes to hardwood floors.
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Installing an Honeywell Truesteam humidifier is not always easy to do, especially in NW Washington. Here in WA State we have mostly down flow furnaces and that can make for a very difficult install.
Existing Lennox Furnace
Here we have an existing Lennox gas furnace, because of the limited space below and the fact they also wanted to add a Heat Pump to the system I have to use a Honeywell remote mount kit.
Honeywell TrueSteam
The Honeywell TrueSTEAM humidifier mounted on to the side of the heat pump coil. We then routed the steam down and penetrated the supply duct work below the coil.
Honeywell TrueSteam remote mounted
Overall the installation went fairly smooth, I did have an issue with following the sizing chart that Honeywell provides, turned out that a 1600 square foot home with 50% wood floors requires a 9.0 gal unit not 6.0 that Honeywell recommends.
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Here I swapped out an older RHEEM gas furnace for a new American Standard 80%. This was probably the most common type of furnace changeout up to 2 years ago, now I am seeing more upgrades than anything.
Older RHEEM Gas Furnace
And as you can see we added a Honeywell True Steam 6 gal Humidifier below the new American Standard gas furnace.
New American Standard 80%
By adding the humidifier they will be able to maintain a minimum setting of humidity in the home. This is good for their health as well as energy cost. We also added the Honeywell 4″ pleated filter above.
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