I strongly recommend you avoid evaporative humidifiers and get an aprilaire steam one injecting into the supply ductwork, they are $1100-1500ish installed by a decent HVAC tech and provide far better control than evaporative ones (i.e. pads/drums/ect), and by nature will not grow shit due to old folk not doing the maintenance required on evaporative systems and are more disaster proof (i.e. un-noticed leaks) than evaporative ones as well.
Yup, although I was off on the price and it increased more than $300 over the last couple of years. Still easier to install unless you have a huge house and want to run it on 240VAC and not 120. Personally - I feel 120VAC is a more even change in humidity than the higher voltage and generally install it sucking that.
It really depends on your house and how well sealed it is. We installed a aprilaire 720m and so far has kept our house at 40-45% consistently. But we have a new build, well sealed home. If you have an older leaky house, it may not perform as well. There’s the 800 steam version, but that will use a considerable amount of electricity.
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