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Speaker 1 (00:27):
Oh it is that time of year. It started about
two weeks ago. When you say, Danny start getting a
lot of calls about humidity, Yes, sir, and I've been
in the process of whinying for the last two to
three weeks about how hot humid it is.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
I would say whining, complaining, like.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Like complaining, so you know, when it's hot and humid.
And then we start having problems with humidity inside our home,
and then that breeds other problems. And that also means
I call Erica laqual from Easy Breathe and say, hey,
we got to talk about making our home that healthy, happy,
(01:08):
happy place again. And Erica, welcome again that home with
Gary Salvin. How you doing.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
I'm great, Gary, happy to be here, thank you.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Yeah. Man. We started getting humidity calls by the abundance
about two weeks ago, and well why not. I mean
all I was doing was raining in ninety degrees and
that's not good. Yeah, So why don't just to start,
let's talk about humidity inside homes. To start, why does
(01:42):
the air get so humid in our homes?
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Well, that's a great question. Obviously, part of what's going
on is it's relative what's happening outside right, So during
during times like this, it really becomes a forefront. But
humidity is something that we're all battling within our structures,
specifically when it comes to the foundation, a basement, a
crawl space. Those tend to be the areas of biggest
(02:09):
concern when it comes to humidity, not only because there's
a lack of airflow and they're very stagnant environments, but
there's actually a transmission from the soil. The moisture in
the soil absorbs into that relatively drier space. And I'm
talking about the vapor, that water, vapor, that humidity. We're
not talking about the liquid water that trickles across the floor,
(02:30):
bubbles up through the cracks that is, that's the bulk water.
That's a different discussion. But that humidity is evident even
in dry basements that don't have or dry crawl space
that have no water intrusion, they just have the liquid
water intrusion. I'm talking about that vapor. So you know,
there's a law of thermodynamics and physics that says that
(02:52):
wet moves to dry. Like when you put a paper
towel on a spill on the counter. You know, the
spilled doesn't that the towel doesn't make the The toil
doesn't make the water dry. The water makes the towel wet, right,
Wet moves to dry. So the air in the space
(03:14):
is relatively drier compared to the moisture in the soil,
especially when it rains and we have higher water tables,
there's a higher concentration of that in the soil, so
we have more of that migration into that basement or
cross space space. That's probably the biggest contributor to high humidity.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Yeah, and there's a there's there's a ton of moisture
or vapor going through the walls in a basement or
cross space, or through the floor or through the ground.
Do you got any idea how much water vapor? I mean,
(03:53):
if we condensed all that, would it be a five
gallon bucket of water?
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Actually, it can be anywhere between ten to fifteen gallons
a day real, So, like think of that milk gallon, right,
ten to fifteen of those a day is being absorbed
in the form of water vapor into the average basement
or cross space. Yeah, that's a lot, No wonder, right,
no wonder.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
We'll get into what it makes the basement stink, but
it also makes our home kind of uncomfortable. Last week
I was preaching, you know, if you can get your
humidity under control, you can probably set your air conditioner
seventy six, seventy eight. If you run seventy percent humidity,
probably got set seventy two or seventy three.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Right, Yes, that discussion is one we're having a lot
as well. That relationship between your air conditioner and the humidity.
It's you know, that's what you need to do.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
You're right, Gary, Right, Well, I preach the humidity levels
inside your home thirty five percent in the winter and
maybe fifty five percent in the summer. That's where you
want to be. And homeowners could really help themselves by
getting a couple humidity guides, maybe one in the basement,
one on the first floor, because as the problem gets
(05:12):
bad in the basement, that's where the water's going through
the walls, or the water vapors going through the walls.
But it marches all the way up to the different
levels of the house.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Sure does. Yeah, you know there's that you know, again
another law of physics, not to be too technical, but
you know that that that heat rising, that stack effect
where the heat rises up through the home and it
drags that humidity right up with it. That's why when
you open the basement steps, you know, you open the
door to the basement or the latch of the cross space,
you get hit right away. And that's because that air
(05:45):
is being drawn up. So you're right, you know, that
increased humidity. You can have, you know, the discussion between
what's going on upstairs and how it relates to downstairs,
and what's going on downstairs and how it relates to upstairs.
There's a whole story there that you know, we educate
folks to on the daily right.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Well, we talked about the smells. We've talked about you know,
just the uncomfortable costing us more money because it's too humid.
But high humidity, I gosh. I've had friends that have
had this problem, especially like if they had a house
in Florida and it's set, you know, just sad during
(06:26):
the summertime, they weren't going down and they didn't leave
the air conditioner on low enough and there was mold
growing on the furniture. Does this happen in our homes
if we're living in them?
Speaker 3 (06:39):
It sure can, absolutely, you know that humidity level is key.
Humidity above a certain point, and there's some discussion between
like fifty five and sixty percent humidity is what mold
needs to thrive. So in order to keep mold and
mildews and odors and bacteria and fungus and pests and
(07:00):
all those nackiness, you know, if we keep that humidity
level low enough, those things won't thrive. They don't have
the conditions necessary to grow. So you know, I know
it's a big problem. But if we can just look
at it from maybe like a thirty thousand foot view
and say, okay, we need to maintain healthy humidity levels
throughout our entire structure, that's the number one way you
(07:22):
can prevent mold from happening in the first place. Sure.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Now, of course our air conditioner is a big do
you umidifier, and then there's portable do you emidifiers, And
of course our homes continue to get tight because I've
been preaching after seeing a couple of my electric bills
this summer, like holy cow, we got to do something.
So we're talking about more insulation, but then that drives
(07:50):
up the humidity levels, and that always brings me to
your product. We need we need to have some ventilation,
and it needs to be controlled. We can't open all
the windows.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Especially when it's been like this, right, it's so you're right, exactly, yeah,
So you don't want to open the windows when it's raining,
and you know, opening the windows has more of a sucking,
you know, component than it does blowing out right open
the windows and it draws the air in. So we
don't really get much ventilation just by opening windows unless
(08:25):
you've got specific cross breezes with you know, two different
windows directly across from each other. So you're right, ventilation
is a key component to an overall healthy home, but
specifically when it comes to, you know, managing indoor pollutants,
which humidity is one of the ones at top of
mind right now.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Sure, sure, So you're exactly right, because again your analogy
with moistures drawn to dry. So if you're sitting with
ninety three degrees outside in eighty five percent humidity and
you open the windows, guess what your humidity is inside
your home. So there's a little science involved here, folks.
(09:07):
And Erica's been with Easybreed gosh, twenty years longer, I'll
lose track twenty two. Yeah, twenty two. Well, so you've
seen this whole industry grow this controlled ventilation. You don't
filter it, you control the ventilation, correct.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Yeah, there's no reason to spend the extra money to
filter or you know, do any sort of modification to
the molecular structure, like condense it into the liquid form
like a standard to humidifier does easy breathe. We approach
it by simple ventilation, so it keeps operational costs very low.
We're removing the air in its whole state. So if
(09:49):
it's humid, sticky damp air, we're removing that sticky, damp,
humid air to the outside, making room for cleaner, dryer
air to come down and replace it more of an
air exchange by using ventilation at the very lowest level
as the driving force behind that air exchange and pollutant removal.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Sure, so it's been replaced. Sure there's some outdoor air,
but it's a minimal amount. How many times does an
easy breed change out the air in your home? I
mean a few times a day absolutely.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
It usually depends on the size of the structure, but
anywhere between three to six times a day you'll have
complete air exchanges. You know, we don't move the air
faster than the HVAC system conditions it. We want to
be very clear about that. We don't tack the existing
air handler. We don't want to do that. We want
the air handler to do its job, and we just
(10:43):
borrow enough of that air bring it down so you
replace the bad, sticky, polluted air with a cleaner, dryer
air quality from the upper levels. Correct.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
It makes so much sense. And we focused just the
last ten minutes on humidity. There's other pollutants in our
in our homes all the time. We use aerosols, and
we got furniture and carpeting. There's off guessing there's pollutants
in our home anyway.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Oh, absolutely, humidity. Like you said, humidity seems to be
top of mine right now. But overall, indoor air quality
gets significantly improved. Are testing over the last you know,
twenty plus years has shown a decrease in airborne pollutants,
which is basically everything that's floating in the air. Those
airborne pollutants get a reduction of about eighty five percent.
(11:31):
Once we start ventilating the air, because the air no
longer is stagnant. There's a very gentle breeze that allows
for that air exchange, so nothing has the ability to
concentrate and build up to unhealthy levels like humidity, danders, allergens, bacterias,
those types of things.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Well, you got about ten more myths for me. We
can take a break and come back and talk a
little bit more about the easy breath fair enough.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Sure sounds great.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Thank you, Right, do that and we'll continue our discussion
with Erica. From easy breathe and the moisture and the
pollutants that we trap in our homes. This is important
stuff and I for the last twenty some years, have
watched this industry become very very important, just as Erica has.
(12:18):
And I think people are catching on. But if you've
been on the fence about doing something about it by
increasing the ventilation, maybe the day's the day. All right,
we'll continue with Erica. You're at home with Gary Sullivan.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
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Speaker 1 (12:38):
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from easy Breathe is with us when talking about how
(15:15):
an easy breath works and how to maintain healthy humidity levels. Again,
it expels the damp, polluted air, the toxic air from
the lowest level of your home or wherever the problem
is to the outside and replaces the bad air with
cleaner air, ventilates the home and again that air exchange
(15:37):
you you know, occurs you know, six, eight, ten times
a day. And Erica, you have a special going on
right now. I want to make sure we tell everybody
about that. It's true the month of August. So if
people been hearing us talk about it over the years,
the month of August is the time to take advantage
(15:58):
of the special ear off.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Absolutely the big summer sale. It's two hundred and fifty
dollars off the easy breeds, whether it's for your basement,
your cross space, we have a garage system, and this
month we're giving away two free humidity monitors with every
Easy Brief purchase, along with a humidity guide for homeowners
to really help people understand the best way to manage
(16:25):
their home with regards to humidity and understanding the relationship
between outdoor and indoor and upstairs and downstairs and actually
give you ways to help monitor that. So, yeah, we're
very excited about that. We've been having this conversation with
homeowners for years now and thought this would be a
great way to help further the knowledge.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Sure, and one of the cool things is. You know,
we can't see pollutants. Sometimes we can't smell pollutants. It
might irritate our eyes or our throats or something. But
with the humidity monitors you can see it. I know.
Yet the less weekend, when somebody color, they go, like,
my basement humidity seventy five percent, And I said, well,
(17:04):
what's upstairs? Want? I don't know. I said, we'll move
that thing upstairs because it could be seventy five percent upstairs,
and thank goodness, it was like fifty eight percent, so
it was still downstairs. But it's going to get upstairs.
So if you know that information, you can really, you know,
you can really help control it. Now the easy breathe
(17:27):
is there any maintenance on this device?
Speaker 3 (17:31):
No? You know, the easy breath is is a ventilation system,
so drawing the air off the lowest level of the
floor of the basement or cross space, and it's evacuating
it to the outside through a six inch hole, very
similar to the dryer vent. You know, it's got a
vent cover with the flaps, so when the airstream is
being exhausted, it's open and if for any reason, the
(17:52):
unit cycles on and off because it is governed by
a humid of stats. So if it reaches that desired level,
little cloth and the only thing that we ask is
maybe every other month or every three months, you vacuum
around the base where the intake is because those larger
particles are sometimes the little tumble weeds of hair had
hair tends to accumulate, right.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Right, right. What what's the cost of the electricity on this?
I mean, I know de amidifiers are expensive to operate.
Where's the easy breath come in there?
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Yeah, that's a great question. We get that asked all
the time because folks are used to paying thirty forty, fifty, sixty,
sometimes one hundred dollars a month depending on how many
dehumidifiers are running the easy breath because it's so simple
and we're not spending a lot of energy to modify
the air, whether to filter it or condense it or
run it through you know uv zappers. We're simply exhausting it.
(18:51):
So the easy breed is very economical and only two
to four dollars a month.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
So it's the cost of.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
Like a thirty watt light bulb. Yeah, we're very very
energy efficient, so no concerns with regard to operation costs.
It all.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Are there different sizes of an easy breath.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Yes, we have various units systems for various applications. So
whether it's going into a basement or cross space or garage,
you know, we've got various models that service the specific
needs of the context where it's being installed.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Okay. Is there a warranty on the easy breath?
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Yeah, we best in the business. Gary. We have a
ten year warranty, which you know, we've had this now
for over twenty years, and we still find ourselves one
of the best in the business. It's very, very rare
to find a ten year warranty on any sort of
home apply.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
I agree, we're going.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Strong at ten years. Yeah, and they live well beyond that,
you know.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Just sure to let you know the mine's well over ten.
We've had them fifteen years.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Sure, that's right.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Ye, you're still going strong. Check it. I check it
every now and then. I always tell the story. One
day I can. You can barely hear it. By the way,
it's not loud, folks. You can put it right down
in the theater in the basement if you wanted to.
But I unplugged it one year. It's like, does this
thing really working? Or what you know, it's been so
(20:14):
nice and I unplugged it within a day. You could
smell it. You could just smell a little bit of dampness.
You could smell it and plug it right back in
and go on. So how about the installation. If you're
pulling air out, that tells me we gotta we got
to go through the brick or the foundation or something. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Oftentimes you know, the right above the rim joys the
still played area. That's generally we don't we don't prefer
going through brick, but certainly that is an area if
that's the only, you know, place we have to drill.
But yeah, it's a six inch hold, just like your
dryer event creating that penetration to allow the airstream. So
you know, we offer professional install we our di Y
(20:58):
kit is very very popular. Lots of DIY homeowners have
the ability to do this. So we have a do
it yourself installation kit that we offer. But also you
know that's not in the cards for you. We do
have a network of professional installers throughout the country that
can we can you know, marry you with one of
those sure and get this installed. It only takes about
(21:19):
an hour and a half to two hours. It isn't
the you know, huge you know time commitment, So it's
a it's a great little project and makes a big,
big improvement. You know, people ask this all the time.
Like you said, it's so hard to see this, but
you can feel it. And a great analogy is when
you're taking a shower and you don't turn on your vents, well, yeah,
your your bathroom fan right. Figure out how humid and
(21:40):
sticky that gets. So that's what's happening to your basement
and left years and years of accumulation, no wonder it
gets much being damp money.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Take advantage of this sale again. Call Easy Breathe give
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(22:10):
something again. That's two hundred and fifty dollars off plus
two free humidity monitors, a humidity guide for you, and
that sales during the month of August. Erica. Thank you
so much for joining us today. Certainly appreciate your time.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Thank you, Gary.
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Oh it is that time of year. It started about
two weeks ago. When you say, Danny start getting a
lot of calls about humidity, Yes, sir, and I've been
in the process of whinying for the last two to
three weeks about how hot humid it is.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
I would say whining, complaining, like.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Like complaining, so you know, when it's hot and humid.
And then we start having problems with humidity inside our home,
and then that breeds other problems. And that also means
I call Erica laqual from Easy Breathe and say, hey,
we got to talk about making our home that healthy, happy,
(01:08):
happy place again. And Erica, welcome again that home with
Gary Salvin. How you doing.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
I'm great, Gary, happy to be here, thank you.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Yeah. Man. We started getting humidity calls by the abundance
about two weeks ago, and well why not. I mean
all I was doing was raining in ninety degrees and
that's not good. Yeah, So why don't just to start,
let's talk about humidity inside homes. To start, why does
(01:42):
the air get so humid in our homes?
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Well, that's a great question. Obviously, part of what's going
on is it's relative what's happening outside right, So during
during times like this, it really becomes a forefront. But
humidity is something that we're all battling within our structures,
specifically when it comes to the foundation, a basement, a
crawl space. Those tend to be the areas of biggest
(02:09):
concern when it comes to humidity, not only because there's
a lack of airflow and they're very stagnant environments, but
there's actually a transmission from the soil. The moisture in
the soil absorbs into that relatively drier space. And I'm
talking about the vapor, that water, vapor, that humidity. We're
not talking about the liquid water that trickles across the floor,
(02:30):
bubbles up through the cracks that is, that's the bulk water.
That's a different discussion. But that humidity is evident even
in dry basements that don't have or dry crawl space
that have no water intrusion, they just have the liquid
water intrusion. I'm talking about that vapor. So you know,
there's a law of thermodynamics and physics that says that
(02:52):
wet moves to dry. Like when you put a paper
towel on a spill on the counter. You know, the
spilled doesn't that the towel doesn't make the The toil
doesn't make the water dry. The water makes the towel wet, right,
Wet moves to dry. So the air in the space
(03:14):
is relatively drier compared to the moisture in the soil,
especially when it rains and we have higher water tables,
there's a higher concentration of that in the soil, so
we have more of that migration into that basement or
cross space space. That's probably the biggest contributor to high humidity.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Yeah, and there's a there's there's a ton of moisture
or vapor going through the walls in a basement or
cross space, or through the floor or through the ground.
Do you got any idea how much water vapor? I mean,
(03:53):
if we condensed all that, would it be a five
gallon bucket of water?
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Actually, it can be anywhere between ten to fifteen gallons
a day real, So, like think of that milk gallon, right,
ten to fifteen of those a day is being absorbed
in the form of water vapor into the average basement
or cross space. Yeah, that's a lot, No wonder, right,
no wonder.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
We'll get into what it makes the basement stink, but
it also makes our home kind of uncomfortable. Last week
I was preaching, you know, if you can get your
humidity under control, you can probably set your air conditioner
seventy six, seventy eight. If you run seventy percent humidity,
probably got set seventy two or seventy three.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Right, Yes, that discussion is one we're having a lot
as well. That relationship between your air conditioner and the humidity.
It's you know, that's what you need to do.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
You're right, Gary, Right, Well, I preach the humidity levels
inside your home thirty five percent in the winter and
maybe fifty five percent in the summer. That's where you
want to be. And homeowners could really help themselves by
getting a couple humidity guides, maybe one in the basement,
one on the first floor, because as the problem gets
(05:12):
bad in the basement, that's where the water's going through
the walls, or the water vapors going through the walls.
But it marches all the way up to the different
levels of the house.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Sure does. Yeah, you know there's that you know, again
another law of physics, not to be too technical, but
you know that that that heat rising, that stack effect
where the heat rises up through the home and it
drags that humidity right up with it. That's why when
you open the basement steps, you know, you open the
door to the basement or the latch of the cross space,
you get hit right away. And that's because that air
(05:45):
is being drawn up. So you're right, you know, that
increased humidity. You can have, you know, the discussion between
what's going on upstairs and how it relates to downstairs,
and what's going on downstairs and how it relates to upstairs.
There's a whole story there that you know, we educate
folks to on the daily right.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Well, we talked about the smells. We've talked about you know,
just the uncomfortable costing us more money because it's too humid.
But high humidity, I gosh. I've had friends that have
had this problem, especially like if they had a house
in Florida and it's set, you know, just sad during
(06:26):
the summertime, they weren't going down and they didn't leave
the air conditioner on low enough and there was mold
growing on the furniture. Does this happen in our homes
if we're living in them?
Speaker 3 (06:39):
It sure can, absolutely, you know that humidity level is key.
Humidity above a certain point, and there's some discussion between
like fifty five and sixty percent humidity is what mold
needs to thrive. So in order to keep mold and
mildews and odors and bacteria and fungus and pests and
(07:00):
all those nackiness, you know, if we keep that humidity
level low enough, those things won't thrive. They don't have
the conditions necessary to grow. So you know, I know
it's a big problem. But if we can just look
at it from maybe like a thirty thousand foot view
and say, okay, we need to maintain healthy humidity levels
throughout our entire structure, that's the number one way you
(07:22):
can prevent mold from happening in the first place. Sure.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Now, of course our air conditioner is a big do
you umidifier, and then there's portable do you emidifiers, And
of course our homes continue to get tight because I've
been preaching after seeing a couple of my electric bills
this summer, like holy cow, we got to do something.
So we're talking about more insulation, but then that drives
(07:50):
up the humidity levels, and that always brings me to
your product. We need we need to have some ventilation,
and it needs to be controlled. We can't open all
the windows.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Especially when it's been like this, right, it's so you're right, exactly, yeah,
So you don't want to open the windows when it's raining,
and you know, opening the windows has more of a sucking,
you know, component than it does blowing out right open
the windows and it draws the air in. So we
don't really get much ventilation just by opening windows unless
(08:25):
you've got specific cross breezes with you know, two different
windows directly across from each other. So you're right, ventilation
is a key component to an overall healthy home, but
specifically when it comes to, you know, managing indoor pollutants,
which humidity is one of the ones at top of
mind right now.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Sure, sure, So you're exactly right, because again your analogy
with moistures drawn to dry. So if you're sitting with
ninety three degrees outside in eighty five percent humidity and
you open the windows, guess what your humidity is inside
your home. So there's a little science involved here, folks.
(09:07):
And Erica's been with Easybreed gosh, twenty years longer, I'll
lose track twenty two. Yeah, twenty two. Well, so you've
seen this whole industry grow this controlled ventilation. You don't
filter it, you control the ventilation, correct.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Yeah, there's no reason to spend the extra money to
filter or you know, do any sort of modification to
the molecular structure, like condense it into the liquid form
like a standard to humidifier does easy breathe. We approach
it by simple ventilation, so it keeps operational costs very low.
We're removing the air in its whole state. So if
(09:49):
it's humid, sticky damp air, we're removing that sticky, damp,
humid air to the outside, making room for cleaner, dryer
air to come down and replace it more of an
air exchange by using ventilation at the very lowest level
as the driving force behind that air exchange and pollutant removal.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Sure, so it's been replaced. Sure there's some outdoor air,
but it's a minimal amount. How many times does an
easy breed change out the air in your home? I
mean a few times a day absolutely.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
It usually depends on the size of the structure, but
anywhere between three to six times a day you'll have
complete air exchanges. You know, we don't move the air
faster than the HVAC system conditions it. We want to
be very clear about that. We don't tack the existing
air handler. We don't want to do that. We want
the air handler to do its job, and we just
(10:43):
borrow enough of that air bring it down so you
replace the bad, sticky, polluted air with a cleaner, dryer
air quality from the upper levels. Correct.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
It makes so much sense. And we focused just the
last ten minutes on humidity. There's other pollutants in our
in our homes all the time. We use aerosols, and
we got furniture and carpeting. There's off guessing there's pollutants
in our home anyway.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Oh, absolutely, humidity. Like you said, humidity seems to be
top of mine right now. But overall, indoor air quality
gets significantly improved. Are testing over the last you know,
twenty plus years has shown a decrease in airborne pollutants,
which is basically everything that's floating in the air. Those
airborne pollutants get a reduction of about eighty five percent.
(11:31):
Once we start ventilating the air, because the air no
longer is stagnant. There's a very gentle breeze that allows
for that air exchange, so nothing has the ability to
concentrate and build up to unhealthy levels like humidity, danders, allergens, bacterias,
those types of things.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Well, you got about ten more myths for me. We
can take a break and come back and talk a
little bit more about the easy breath fair enough.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Sure sounds great.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Thank you, Right, do that and we'll continue our discussion
with Erica. From easy breathe and the moisture and the
pollutants that we trap in our homes. This is important
stuff and I for the last twenty some years, have
watched this industry become very very important, just as Erica has.
(12:18):
And I think people are catching on. But if you've
been on the fence about doing something about it by
increasing the ventilation, maybe the day's the day. All right,
we'll continue with Erica. You're at home with Gary Sullivan.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
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so do it yourself with Demon. Oh our friend Erica
from easy Breathe is with us when talking about how
(15:15):
an easy breath works and how to maintain healthy humidity levels. Again,
it expels the damp, polluted air, the toxic air from
the lowest level of your home or wherever the problem
is to the outside and replaces the bad air with
cleaner air, ventilates the home and again that air exchange
(15:37):
you you know, occurs you know, six, eight, ten times
a day. And Erica, you have a special going on
right now. I want to make sure we tell everybody
about that. It's true the month of August. So if
people been hearing us talk about it over the years,
the month of August is the time to take advantage
(15:58):
of the special ear off.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Absolutely the big summer sale. It's two hundred and fifty
dollars off the easy breeds, whether it's for your basement,
your cross space, we have a garage system, and this
month we're giving away two free humidity monitors with every
Easy Brief purchase, along with a humidity guide for homeowners
to really help people understand the best way to manage
(16:25):
their home with regards to humidity and understanding the relationship
between outdoor and indoor and upstairs and downstairs and actually
give you ways to help monitor that. So, yeah, we're
very excited about that. We've been having this conversation with
homeowners for years now and thought this would be a
great way to help further the knowledge.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Sure, and one of the cool things is. You know,
we can't see pollutants. Sometimes we can't smell pollutants. It
might irritate our eyes or our throats or something. But
with the humidity monitors you can see it. I know.
Yet the less weekend, when somebody color, they go, like,
my basement humidity seventy five percent, And I said, well,
(17:04):
what's upstairs? Want? I don't know. I said, we'll move
that thing upstairs because it could be seventy five percent upstairs,
and thank goodness, it was like fifty eight percent, so
it was still downstairs. But it's going to get upstairs.
So if you know that information, you can really, you know,
you can really help control it. Now the easy breathe
(17:27):
is there any maintenance on this device?
Speaker 3 (17:31):
No? You know, the easy breath is is a ventilation system,
so drawing the air off the lowest level of the
floor of the basement or cross space, and it's evacuating
it to the outside through a six inch hole, very
similar to the dryer vent. You know, it's got a
vent cover with the flaps, so when the airstream is
being exhausted, it's open and if for any reason, the
(17:52):
unit cycles on and off because it is governed by
a humid of stats. So if it reaches that desired level,
little cloth and the only thing that we ask is
maybe every other month or every three months, you vacuum
around the base where the intake is because those larger
particles are sometimes the little tumble weeds of hair had
hair tends to accumulate, right.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Right, right. What what's the cost of the electricity on this?
I mean, I know de amidifiers are expensive to operate.
Where's the easy breath come in there?
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Yeah, that's a great question. We get that asked all
the time because folks are used to paying thirty forty, fifty, sixty,
sometimes one hundred dollars a month depending on how many
dehumidifiers are running the easy breath because it's so simple
and we're not spending a lot of energy to modify
the air, whether to filter it or condense it or
run it through you know uv zappers. We're simply exhausting it.
(18:51):
So the easy breed is very economical and only two
to four dollars a month.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
So it's the cost of.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
Like a thirty watt light bulb. Yeah, we're very very
energy efficient, so no concerns with regard to operation costs.
It all.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Are there different sizes of an easy breath.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Yes, we have various units systems for various applications. So
whether it's going into a basement or cross space or garage,
you know, we've got various models that service the specific
needs of the context where it's being installed.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Okay. Is there a warranty on the easy breath?
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Yeah, we best in the business. Gary. We have a
ten year warranty, which you know, we've had this now
for over twenty years, and we still find ourselves one
of the best in the business. It's very, very rare
to find a ten year warranty on any sort of
home apply.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
I agree, we're going.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Strong at ten years. Yeah, and they live well beyond that,
you know.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Just sure to let you know the mine's well over ten.
We've had them fifteen years.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Sure, that's right.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Ye, you're still going strong. Check it. I check it
every now and then. I always tell the story. One
day I can. You can barely hear it. By the way,
it's not loud, folks. You can put it right down
in the theater in the basement if you wanted to.
But I unplugged it one year. It's like, does this
thing really working? Or what you know, it's been so
(20:14):
nice and I unplugged it within a day. You could
smell it. You could just smell a little bit of dampness.
You could smell it and plug it right back in
and go on. So how about the installation. If you're
pulling air out, that tells me we gotta we got
to go through the brick or the foundation or something. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Oftentimes you know, the right above the rim joys the
still played area. That's generally we don't we don't prefer
going through brick, but certainly that is an area if
that's the only, you know, place we have to drill.
But yeah, it's a six inch hold, just like your
dryer event creating that penetration to allow the airstream. So
you know, we offer professional install we our di Y
(20:58):
kit is very very popular. Lots of DIY homeowners have
the ability to do this. So we have a do
it yourself installation kit that we offer. But also you
know that's not in the cards for you. We do
have a network of professional installers throughout the country that
can we can you know, marry you with one of
those sure and get this installed. It only takes about
(21:19):
an hour and a half to two hours. It isn't
the you know, huge you know time commitment, So it's
a it's a great little project and makes a big,
big improvement. You know, people ask this all the time.
Like you said, it's so hard to see this, but
you can feel it. And a great analogy is when
you're taking a shower and you don't turn on your vents, well, yeah,
your your bathroom fan right. Figure out how humid and
(21:40):
sticky that gets. So that's what's happening to your basement
and left years and years of accumulation, no wonder it
gets much being damp money.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Take advantage of this sale again. Call Easy Breathe give
them a call on Monday morning and it's eight six
six eight to two tventy three twenty eight. That's eight
sixty six eight two two seventy three twenty eight and
have a conversation with him. If you've heard us talking
about it in the past, maybe it's time to do
(22:10):
something again. That's two hundred and fifty dollars off plus
two free humidity monitors, a humidity guide for you, and
that sales during the month of August. Erica. Thank you
so much for joining us today. Certainly appreciate your time.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Thank you, Gary.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
All right, I have a going by bye. All right. Uh,
your call's next at eight hundred eight two three eight
two five five year at Home with Gary Sullivan.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
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