Humidity and keeping floors clean?

[LysnDan]

Hi.

It's been very very humid here in WA and we have struggled with the heat over the past 2 weeks (with temps around 45 degrees!)

We are lucky that the temp has dropped down a few notches now, but for the past 2 days we have experienced wet slippery tiles around the house. And no amount of opening up the windows or doors are proving any help. We have an evaporative air con and its doing an awesome job in regards to the heat, but how can we stop our floors getting so slippery?

I'm constantly roaming around the house with a towel but in a matter of minutes after its been dried, its wet again.

I think the bit that really bothers me is the fact we have a rug that loses its synthetic fibres (no matter how much I vac!) and they are found all around the house at the minute and the house looks really dirty.

What do I do? How can I make it less slippery and how can I keep it looking clean when its humid? I'm too scared to use the vac as my last one blew up due to moisture getting in the motor from the same thing last year!

[Olive]

Where do your vents point???

[Tinks]

It'll be the evaporative cooling making your floors slippery. When it's humid you should use the vent setting instead of the cool setting, that will stop the moisture.

[LysnDan]

It'll be the evaporative cooling making your floors slippery. When it's humid you should use the vent setting instead of the cool setting, that will stop the moisture.

I've had it on vent all morning and still have wet floors!

ETA whoops Olive I didn't see your post there!

The vents are pointing in all different directions more so towards the walls than the floors.

[Olive]

That's good as pointing at the floor will make it worse, do you have enough ventilation?
I open the windows on the opposite side of the house to here the wind is blowing in from ( if there is any)

[LysnDan]

I have the front door and windows open as well as the sliding back door and windows open. So I think there's ample ventilation.

[black_rose]

If the floors are getting wet them you need more open but on humid days even with everything open it can still get damp, as others have said you can turn off the water to just keep the air moving.

[LysnDan]

I will be ringing my air con guy because although its saying its on vent... It is still feeling like the actual cool is on... Might be broken ... Hrmmm. DD is getting annoyed because she keeps slipping over.