Get a warm mist humidifier. It'll make your space feel cozy, and winter colds will be a thing of the past.
My go-to ones are by Vick's and Honeywell. They look identical, with different branding, but can usually be found everywhere, online and in drug stores.
It's also cleaner, and safer. No worries about spreading bacteria, or mold, through the air, because the unit needed to be clean, and no dust from your water evaporating leaving it's mineral content behind on your furniture.
I tried cool mist once, to see why they were so popular, and they made the room feel cold an clammy. Blech! I think people like them because you're less likely to deal with burns from kids, or animals messing with it. It also uses less energy since there's no heat source, but the result are sub par.
With the caveat below, I love the Vick's Warm Mist humidifiers for a room - like keeping a bedroom at higher humidity at night. Not "high" humidity, just "higher" than the rest of the dried out house. It is easy to use and depending upon room size you can run it at low or high for the night. A tank on low lasts 24 hours, on high 12 hours.
CAVEAT: If you use tap water (that's what I do as you'd go through lots of distilled water), you need to descale it every week or two. To do that I put it in the sink at use vinegar to fill the bottom until the heating element is covered. After a few hours (or many if you're away at work say), scrape or pop off the scale that has built up over the week or two since you last did this and it's as good as new.
If you go with a cool mist or ultrasonic humidifier, instead of that scale building up on the heating element, that same scale is disbursed throughout the room as a very fine white dust that accumulates on everything.
Just get a Vick's Warm Moisture. It isn't "exciting" but it works. If you have hard water, soak the crusty parts in vinegar when the minerals build up too much.
+1 Steam humidifier.
* It sanitizes the water through boiling, so no need for additives.
* Releases nothing into the air except pure steam, since again it boils it.
* Can use tap water instead of distilled water.
Only difference is I recommend getting the Vicks unit at $20, instead of the $150 unit you listed.
Get a $20 Vicks Steam humidifier.
* It boils the water. Kills microbes, no mold. No cleaning.
* No filters to replace.
* Dirt cheap and easy to use.
* Takes regular tap water.
People don't like it because it is very warm, even hot to the touch. A careless child can burn themselves on it. Also, it leaves behind black chips in the water. People think something is wrong but this is just the minerals in the water left behild after boiling. Simply dump them out in the toilet or trash and replace with tap water.
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