Honeywell - Quiet Comfort Cool Moisture Humidifier HEV320BV1

Buy a wicking humidifier. Do not buy the misting ones. Something like a Honeywell HEV320B

HEV320 is the smaller one. Looks like they might still sell them but only in black. At 30-40 USD this seems to be one of the least expensive humidifiers that work well for a small room, but you do have the ongoing costs of replacement wicks.

If it’s for a small room, Honeywell HEV320

Honeywell HEV320 is the smallest and least expensive one I've used. It works well. I just clean it every week or so by putting some vinegar mixed with water in the tank, placing it on the base (without the filter) and after letting it soak for 10 minutes or so, wiping down with a cloth and then rinsing.

Does your house have an HVAC system? If so, I purchased a whole home evaporative unit and it has been a blessing. I could not, for the life of me, get the humidity to even passable levels with multiple portable evaportive units (which makes sense as the whole home unit is putting upwards of 10 gallons a day into the air on the driest days of winter.) If not, we had portable Honeywell systems, which were well designed (but inherently limited on what they could do if you are in a super dry area.) If your water is hard, you will have to change the filter more often (as is the case with any evaporative unit).

I have an old Honeywell wicking humidifier works amazingly well!

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.

honeywell cool evaporative humidifier.

Came here to say just this! Evaporative is the best for humidifying and healthier air. We also have a Honeywell evaporative hunidifier… it is easy to clean and really helps keep the air moistened without spreading unhealthy mold particles, like my old cool mist humidifiers did.

How big is the room? I use an evaporative Honeywell. It does well on the lowest setting and I only have to fill it about once a day

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