Honeywell - Cool Moisture Humidifier HCM350B

I’ve had this Honeywell humidifier for years and it’s about as low maintenance and care free as it gets. It’s plugged into a smart switch and turns on and off to keep the humidity just where I like it. One tip to prolong the evaporator wick is to rotate it every time you refill the tank. Doing that the wick will last through a dry season.  https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FJTVHKO?

We have an ultrasonic in our bedroom and a matching one in our home office. We use distilled water. It's cheap and makes maintenance a snap. I had one of the big evaporative ones years ago and it was a PITA.

The model we have is discontinued, but it's somewhat similar to this one. [https://www.amazon.com/Honeywell-HCM350B-Germ-Humidifier-Black/dp/B00FJTVHKO/ref=sr\_1\_2](https://www.amazon.com/Honeywell-HCM350B-Germ-Humidifier-Black/dp/B00FJTVHKO/ref=sr_1_2)

https://a.co/d/gxk8OWh I use this one, it's pricier but there's absolutely NO white mineral coating in my room, and it lasts through the night on max setting. Only gets up to about 42%, but my bedroom is mega sized.

I got the white version of the Honeywell HCM350B, kind of expensive at like $70-80 but I bought mine in 2019 and it's still going strong. I chose it based on a Wirecutter article that pointed out how easy it is to clean everything, including the tank.

Honeywell makes a nice on that I got. It’s the HCM-350. Super simple, cheap and just has a paper pickup reed you can replace if it gets icky. There’s a UV bulb that is in there to kill bacteria and is the only real wear item.

Interesting, I haven't had a single issue with it tbh. Works quite well.

i got the honeywell hcm350 but don’t know if it will be good enough!

it’s okay! it works and does help with humidity but i wish it had a digital humidistat to turn it self off. the unit is also fairly large and i wish it was smaller. I also wish the tank was bigger as it’s kind of annoying to flip the filter and refill it everyday. I probably could do it every other day. I will say that the filter stays relatively clean after using the deminirlization tablets and aftermarket filter from amazon. Also being able to throw like most parts in the dishwasher is awesome for cleaning . comparing this to a previous levoit ultrasonic and i like that it’s way more healthy. No mold in tricky spots (yet anyway) and i feel like i can do an easier job of keeping it clean for my son. I do change the wick every 30 days as well .

Been happy with our Honeywell evaporative humidifier. I’m not sure the model exactly as it’s older but the HCM350 seems to be at least very similar if not the same

Me too, I've had one for years.

I’ve also been using this one for years. Now have two of them for the kids rooms. It’s literally just a fan connected to a knob, very little to go wrong.

I’ve had this one for years. https://a.co/d/bwSFIFy It’s great because I ban use a switch to airplane turning it on and off wirh my home automation.

When I looked into it,\*\*\* the warm mist are the way to go\*\*\*, one of the options leaves a coating on everything because reasons I don't remember and the other style is loud From memory the other options are cold mist and evaporate. You have to clean it out, but what I do is when I go to sleep I just empty it, wipe it dry and let it air dry. Seems to work find for stopping the mold. Warm mist, you can't really mess it up. I have a medium Honeywell and aside from some mild glitches it seems to work OK. They have a large size, wasn't a fan for reasons my senility prevents me from sharing. No filters, easy to clean \[the medium\] Sadly warm mists don't seem available in this small berg in any other brands locally.YMMV I'd love to get one where like a dehumidifer you can just set the level you want, and is easy to use and clean and a decent size but... well like is a vale of tears. My medium seems to keep up with the HRV in Canadian winters ERV, recovers some of the humidity that you are pumping out in the winter. It's a grand thing, but my father before he died picked a HRV, not sure if he knew better or not, but he died 2 years ago soon after he got it... and I don't want to replace it as the HRV works. Get a ERV and get a summer by pass and you be ballin. All the girl, or guy belong to you and you can haz poland or whatever meme culture says these days.

I used to have the vicks one & it would get mineral build up and since that one doesn’t have a filter it’s more likely to get bacterial growth, mine just stopped working one day which made me get the evaporative one & after doing some research I’d say yes it’s worth switching over

Of course! https://a.co/d/d8L8EV6 unfortunately it’s no longer on sale 🥲 but you might get lucky after the holidays if they do any sales by then I was able to get it for about $60 during Black Friday

This Honeywell one uses evaporation instead of a heating element or whatever sonic stuff is in many others. Since it's just a fan and the wicking element it's way less prone to failure (not perfect, but every bit helps). We've got 2 and they work great, very quiet as well. - [https://a.co/d/hjawtFC](https://a.co/d/hjawtFC)

the models change a lot. 5 years later you wont find the parts or whatever, so its all about the wicks. i got a honeywell. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005LD1Y7E/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 still available. don't get any bells and whistles. Make sure the wicks are available in 4 or 8 packs. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07X8ZNJ8S/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 if the wicks are fancy looking and not justsome folded looking ass paper, don't buy it. unit is on four years; its just a fan, a tank of water, and the wick. biggest internal volume you can get. this ones a gallon and it lasts about 30 hours on low in the winter in a dry house. anything with side loading tanks or things like that is trouble to clean we have a really big unit for the whole house. we have a sort of sun room area that has a damn faucet. i was nervous about a faucet inside but i rolled up the big unit and it fits under it perfectly. fillup so fast and easy. theres one thing to remember about these evaporators unlike the stupid vibrating ones: it almost doesnt matter how gross they get. the ick stays inside and only the vapor goes up. i typically clean them only at end of season by dumping the wick and then filling with vinegar and water, letting sit, then spraying out, and lastly a quick wipe with paper

I have the Honeywell evaporative humidifier. Most of it can go in the dishwasher. The biggest pain (which is only a pain to remember, not to actually do), is to flip the filter daily to make sure it doesn’t dry out in places. 

Skip the misting ones. They can really mess up your air quality, and kind of alarmingly so. You want a regular evaporative one, with the wick. The $60 Honeywell one is fantastic. We leave it running basically 24/7 on medium, cranking up to high at night. It’s about a dollar of electricity a month. It claims to have a UV bulb that helps prevent mold growth. Idk how true that is, but we haven’t had any problems. A tablespoon of hydrogen peroxide every now and again.

We went through like 4 mist humidifiers before switching to an evaporative one. Much more reliable and they don't leave that annoying residue everywhere.

It's worth spending the extra few dollars for an OEM filter. I need to change the Honeywell filter mid season once, and do a weekly cleaning of the bowl, but it's mostly maintenance free.

I would likely recommend an evaporative humidifier, not a warm mist one. The mist ones have a lot of problems, such as being more prone to bacteria growth and harder to clean. They also try to add more moisture than the air can actually hold, resulting in mineral condensation (white dust) appearing everywhere over time, especially if you have hard water. Aircare makes a decent console-style evap humidifier with a decent tank size and is pretty easy to clean. I used one for years until we moved to a house with a humidifier on the furnace. Now I use a smaller Honeywell evaporative humidifier upstairs only. It gets filled each evening, runs constantly all winter, and cleaned each weekend. I went through about half a dozen of those warm mist ones before converting. It didn't matter the brand, how much I treated the water of cleaned them, they were all pieces of junk that lasted only 1-2 years. Crane ones were probably the worst.

Nothing on the carpet. I kept it on a plastic tub lid, just in case but never found water. The Honeywell one i just put on a dresser. Never used one with an air purifier. I wouldn't put them next to each other since they are both ducking in air, but I dont think there would be problems