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depends on your house and where you take the guitar
centrally heated dry houses can mess your guitar up, but are unlikely to destroy it. It just would be harder to play for 6 months every year (when the neck and top change shape), and go out of tune all the time
If you have air conditioning, that's a different game, and you should be much more concerned
If you really push it and often take a good acoustic in and out of hot rooms and cold cars you could well get some damage
I had a new acoustic with some corrugation (I think) from being stored on a stand in store that was heated only during opening hours
I had to get a dehumidifier to keep my house between 45-50%.
I live next to a reservoir and it can get pretty humid. 70% was a regular reading on my hygrometers.
Some days my wife would turn the dehumidifier off. The humidity went up and it definitely affected tone.
I can't help about the shape I'm in, I can't sing I ain't pretty and my legs are thin
But don't ask me what I think of you, I might not give the answer that you want me to
Wow... now that is true dedication to musical excellence! Worrying about the tone of your dehumidifier.
You, sir, deserve to win the Internet.
It always amazes me that people look at the typical outdoors humidity and think yeah that's ok, as mentioned above, 'UK is a sweet spot' etc etc. Unless you leave your guitars outdoors, you prob should start looking at what the humidity is inside your house, where the guitars actually are.
The point still remains, and you have actually highlighted it quite nicely. The question of whether 'humidity is an issue within the UK' is actually moot, and it is the humidity in the environment where the guitars are kept, that needs to be considered.
Compared with the South, you are likely to be 5C colder outside in winter, may be more than that. That 5C is enough to make a big difference to relative humidity. If it's 30% in Scotland, then down here, it will be fine if you don't have your central heating high.