Honeywell - HCM-710 (Easy to Care Top Fill Humidifier)

My "Honeyell Top Fill Cool Moisture Humidifier, HCM710" has basically been running non-stop for the past 3 years now. I bought a reusable filter to replace the disposable one it came with, and I just run it with regular tap water and clean it with white vinegar once in a blue moon

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

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

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 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