Wayne, if your hygrometer is reading 40% that should be adequate. I recently went through this all at work because of my allergies and I read somewhere that anything under 20% you should get a humidifier because it can be bad for you (especially if you have allergies, and this is how I convinced the boss to buy me a humidifier for the office), and anything between 35% and 50% is considered adequate. You don't want it more than 50% because then it gets into the "too humid" dept.

Now if we could just get the one at home fixed I'd be in heaven. I've also noticed now that we have the heat on more often that Tubby & Peanut sneeze more often too (just like their mom, how sweet ) and I know that it's just because it's dry. Terry just keeps putting off calling someone on it because he's not bothered by allergies....so it looks like I'll have to make the call.

Hope this helps for those of you who don't live in "snowville" and are hygrometer challenged. (jk)