so several years ago back at our old house I did a video in addition to a
humidifier in my son's bedroom we also did a plastic milk crate with a wet
towel over the heat vent and the idea behind that was instead of just blowing
dry air from the furnace and then humid air from the humidifier the wet towel
would intercept that dry air and put moisture into it and the next morning
the towel was nice and dry the key with that was our whole house was hardwood
floors and our new house is carpet so we can't really just let that wet towel
drip on the carpet so what I came up with was a board to put down so that it
goes over the heat vent so the towel can if it does drip a little it can drip
down on the board and not get the carpet wet so here's what it looks like and
just like last time this is one this is what it looks like the day after so this
was soaking wet last night and you can see it's completely dry it is it is
bone-dry it's not just kind of dry it's
completely it's like cardboard or something you know it keeps its shape
it's so dry and that just shows all the moisture that was in that towel got into
the room and no dry air got in so underneath that is the milk crate and
then here is the board I used and it's not just any old board there's a couple
things about it first it's a hard board with a melamine surface so water's not
going to get into it water will sit on this surface it's not like a normal
piece of plywood where it'll warp and get maybe mold or mildew in it
um the next thing is I put a border around it just a quarter-inch trim like
I put on with silicone and then I put silicone around the edge on the outside
and the inside and the idea what that is not that the towel is really wet but
it's pretty damp another drip and I don't want it to and I don't want it to
roll off the edge and get on the carpet so any water that lands in here like a
tray is gonna sit in here now as far as the size it's 20 by 20 which is
supercritical you can make it any size you want I just wanted to make it big
enough so this melt crate when it sits on it and the towel
there's room for the towel to overhang so you could make it a little bigger if
you want but one key is you can see it's not centered most heat vents are pretty
much near the edge of the wall and ours was three inches from the edge of the
heat mount to the wall so you would think you would put this in the center
but if she put it offset to the top otherwise it won't fit so this covers so
our heat mat is right here and that opening sits right over the heat vent
so the air can sit on that the milk crate can sit over that and that can be
pushed as far forward as possible then you get a nice wet towel and drape it
over it melt create dimensions I believe are 13 by 13 by 11 um the height doesn't
matter but you want to know the inside dimension because this inner border it's
really tight between the outside of the vent and the inside of this it'll make
it but it's the it barely fits the vent is about maybe 11 and the inside of the
milk crate is 13 so you don't have a lot of room to play with there but it does
fit over that over so every night before bed this doesn't move we just leave the
milk crate the tray there but we do take the towel and wet it down
put it over the back and then I'll hold it up so I don't let the tile just lay
there on the board I kind of fold everything up make sure it's over the
overhang and just leave it like that overnight one nice thing I wanted to add
is I knew water dripped off of that towel but I was just taking some
pictures of this and there is quite a bit of water on here so I'm glad I put a
good quarter inch lip on it because there's there's quite a bit of
water sloshing around in here and because that tile is really dripping
water and again the next morning it's completely drying on the tray and the
towel so it's nice having this little tray with a good edge on it to catch all
that water dripping off and there are versions of this on Amazon there's one
that actually sits in the heat vent it's a little tray that sits in the vent
there's another one that has two jugs that sit over the Heathman it's kind of
the same concept as putting a bowl of water by the heat vent that you're just
trying to pick up that moisture but we really like the tile because you can get
a whole lot like that towels are several pounds full of water by the next day
that's all in the air whereas if you're just having a little Bowl or a trade or
a sponge that sits in the vent I've seen that where it's like you wet a sponge
and put it in the heat vent it doesn't all the reviews have said that doesn't
really work I know this works because this is soaking wet right now there's
water dripping off of it and by the next day you can see it's completely bone dry
so I know this works really well
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