If you have a central furnace then add one to that. If not get an evaporative one with a 1 gallon minimum capacity. It should be able to run a full day. The ultrasonic ones will leave a mist on everything and will clog any air filters you have. I like the Honeywell HWLHEV620B. The wicks last around 4 weeks with our hard water. The top come off to clean the base. I just wish it had a better handle when moving the unit.
I have a Honeywell HEV620 evaporative humidifier that’s been great. When it’s time to replace the wick, get the upgraded wick with the blue mesh, and a pack of the Protec humidifier cleaning balls to keep bacterial buildup at bay. The HEV620 was available in-store at my local Target, but there’s also a few different variants of the HEV6xx that are essentially the same model.
Not what you want to hear….Absolutely use distilled water in an ultrasonic and follow the cleaning maintenance that is in the manual.
I have tried all 3 kinds (ultrasonic, warm mist and cool wicking)
Our favourite is the cool wicking (with a filter)
https://www.canadiantire.ca/en/pdp/honeywell-hev620bc-top-fill-cool-mist-moisture-tower-air-humidifier-with-programmable-humidistat-black-4-73-l-0435150p.html?rq=humidifiers
because we were going through soooooo many jugs of distilled water. Being able to just use tap water has been so much more convenient.
The filters can be rotated through the week to extend their life.
I was originally turned off by the fact that it needs a filter and we also have hard water. But changing the filter is waaaay less cumbersome and cheaper than needing jugs and jugs of distilled water.
It also does a great job keeping the humidity up in our living room, we have a wood stove as our main heat source.
Thank you for the reality check! We really love how we feel with the humidifier at night and would love to make it work.
Appreciate the recommendation for the cool wicking one! We might just get that one, and maaaaybe return the other one. I did read about evaporative humidifiers but it was overwhelming finding them in store and panic bought the cool mist one LOL
It would be waaaay more convenient to just use tap water. We're actually unsure if our tap water is hard water or not lol. One more thing to research I guess!
For the filters, are they one-time use? Or can they be reused and just needed some cleaning?
How often do you clean the cool wicking humidifier?
Oh that's great to hear! We ended up going back to Canadian Tire just now to return the ultrasonic humidifier. Got the one you and the other commenter suggested and we also got a smaller evaporative humidifier 😅. We'll be using the bigger one in our living room and the smaller one in our bedroom.
The smaller one doesn't have a way to monitor humidity levels so we might get a humidity monitor... So excited haha
Thank you for your help!
I ended up returning a humidifier I didn’t like to Canadian Tire and they took it back, no questions asked and then I got this one that I find works very well:
https://www.canadiantire.ca/en/pdp/honeywell-hev620bc-top-fill-cool-mist-moisture-tower-air-humidifier-with-programmable-humidistat-black-4-73-l-0435150p.html.
Just fyi! Good luck!
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