When I was young we had forced hot air heat.  My grandmother always put
pans of water on some of the heat ducts to help humidify the room.  We also
had a woodburning stove in the kitchen with a teakettle always on the back
of the stove for the same reason.  In the house we owned with steam
radiators there was a container that hung on the back of the radiator that
was meant to be filled with water for humidity.  Given all that I would say
your wife is correct.  Ruth




At 7:16 AM -0500 3/5/06, [log in to unmask] wrote:

My wife says putting a 9" wide kettle on the radiator will noticeably
humidify the room.  I say (without thinking of the effort she went to to
purchase this attractive, red enamel kettle with a basket weave top) that
it's ridiculous (yes, guys, I really used that word - stupid, huh?)

Of course, my wife is always right but ... who's right?

Christopher
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