On Monday, March 23, 2015 at 8:09:06 AM UTC-4, songbird wrote:
Stormin Mormon wrote:

Friend of mine tells me he used to live in a place
with baseboard heaters (probably circulating hot
water) and another place with fan forced hot air.
Says the fan forced heat is very dry, but the place
with the radiators didn't feel dry.

yep. some folks have humidifiers in their
furnaces for that reason. if the air gets too
dry it makes it tougher on the sinuses and can
make it easier to catch colds.

i've lived in both kinds of places. we put
pans of water on the radiators too for putting
more moisture into the air (especially during
the winter).


Does this make any sense? Is there a difference?

of course. one uses more recycled indoor air
that already has some humidity (breathing, plants,
from showers, cooking, doing dishes, drying clothes,
etc.) the other uses some air from outdoors and
in the winter can have very low humidity.


I've owned several and seen many more homes with forced air heat.
They used 100% indoor air, unless you're counting the
combustion air that generally comes via the basement.
And even if you are, then a boiler has exactly the same
issue. I have seen one home that has a heat recovery ventilator
added, which allows you to selectively bring in outside air,
when and if you want to, but that is an exception,
a very small percentage of furnace installs. So, IDK
what you're talking about here.