Honeywell - Cool Moisture Humidifier HCM350B

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)

We got the Honeywell one because we already had one and it seemed better to only have to buy one kind of filter.

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 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

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

Fwiw I hated the Honeywell HCM 350 after 6 months. The plastic tray still ends up pockmarked and eroded with regular use. Went through 2 units and gave up on humidifiers altogether.

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

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.

No. they all suck and it is frustrating. An ideal situation is to have a whole home humidifier and just have to keep ontop of one filter and cleaning but of course not everyone can do that (and those have their issue too). I'm also a busy working parent and just decided to try going without a humidifier this year and see how it goes. Try to see how they do. In the past, i've utilized the Honeywell HCM350 and run what parts i can through the dishwasher and clean the rest as best as i can as often as i can (prob every 2-3 weeks realistically). I keep eying the Levoit 6000s but i don't have a spacious place and don't have excess funds at the moment or the capacity to try something and deal with returning it, etc. all this to say, as a parent, you are not alone, it is super frustrating and i wish there was an easy to use humidifer for our little kiddos. I grew up with sinus issues and at this point in my life, i feel like i've tried so many humidifiers and am just tired of it.

Get a tank you can fit your hand into first, because if you can actually reach the bottom you can give it a real scrub and not just pretend. Most humidifiers eventually give out because scale builds up in hidden corners and the motor gets overworked... it all sneaks up on you. If you want something a bit more reliabel, a chunky ABS tank usually copes better than the thin clear plastic that can crack with barely any stress. Evaporative wick units usually stay cleaner than ultrasonics since ultrasonics can leave that white mineral dust everywhere and it looks awful. Simple dials usually survive longer. Touch panels can be fussy and once they go there's not much you can do about it. If the fan assembly comes apart it's easier to keep the inside from turning into a little mould patch though some people forget to do this and then wonder why it smells weird and why it's not moving air properly Smart features are fine as long as the electronics sit somewhere dry enough that steam drift won't bother them. If you want straightforward models that perform decently, the Vornado EV100 or EV200 and the older Honeywell HCM-350 are common choices. Skip the silent ultrasonic toys. They run quietly right up until they stop.

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

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.

I have an old Honeywell wicking humidifier works amazingly well!

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

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.

Me too, I've had one for years.

Biology always wins, no matter what the box claims. UV lights inside a humidifier tank barely hit anything once the water gets cloudy or a biofilm forms. Chlorine cartridges run out fast, microbes do not. The only reliable approach is picking a design that is hard to contaminate in the first place. A sealed evaporative wick chamber with no internal splash zones helps more than any gadget. A tank and base you can toss in a dishwasher lets you cook off the slime instead of scrubbing forever. A decent wick material slows things down, but it is still not magic. A simple water path with no hidden channels keeps mold from setting up shop. The Vornado Evap40 and the Honeywell HCM 350 fit that pattern, mostly because they rely on plain evaporation instead of pretending to be sterilizers. Any self cleaning UV badge is marketing. Those LEDs barely light the water, much less sanitize it. Simple geometry and heat tolerant parts outlive every gimmick humidifier.

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.

Get a digital hygrometer to put in the room, you can get them online or in the reptile section at a pet store. The analog ones suck. I live in a humid area but usually my room is never too humid with the room door open and the A/C running so it's never as humid indoors as outside, so you may not need a dehumidifier, but test your room humidity to find out. You'll definitely want a humidifier though if it ever gets cold or you ever use your heater. You'll ideally want an evaporative humidifier, the moisture evaporates into the air. Don't get a mist humidifier, you don't want water droplets settling on your harp. Sometimes they use the term "invisible cool mist" for evaporative humidifiers, but make sure the description says it's evaporative and not vapor/doesn't show mist/vapor in the photos. [This](https://a.co/d/5xKfUiA) is what I have, it's the cheapest decent evaporative one I could find, but it's only strong enough for a small-medium room imo. If you have a ceiling fan, that also helps to spread the humidity around better on the counterclockwise setting and to shut the room door. It'll be harder to retain humidity in a large open room without a large humidifier, but that can be good place to put the harp if you want to dehumidify.