Spend the extra bucks for an ultrasound model. They're quieter than the sponge-based ones and also put more water in the air. Haven't tried a steam-based unit, but anything that adds heat to the room is gonna be a bad thing eight months out of the year.
If you've got enough space to muffle the noise of an evaporation-type humidifier, that's highly preferable to the ultrasonic type. You might consider a steam vaporizer, possibly coupled with a small fan to disperse the steam and prevent it from condensing. If you must go with ultrasonic, you will definitely want to spend the extra money on distilled water to fill it. Otherwise, you'll find the suspended solids precipitating in corners of your closets you never thought air even reached.
Agreed. Also, bacteria and junk in the ultrasonics go aerosol, while a steam vaporizer boils the water. I'd rather clean the humidifier than the lime and bugs and crap the cold ones leave all over everything.
a lot of cheaper peopl use large, house humidifiers in the summer time. We call them evaporative coolers, or swap coolers. They get useless when the dewpoint exceeds 50 degrees late in summer, though.
We go the ultra cheap way out- we stick a plastic cup full of water in the heating duct, and fill it when it gets empty.
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Date: 2003-11-24 11:10 am (UTC)The only time it gets humid is between End of july and september, when we hav our story season. then it's hot and humid, and life sucks.
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Date: 2003-11-25 10:32 am (UTC)white film everywhere
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Date: 2003-11-24 11:11 am (UTC)We go the ultra cheap way out- we stick a plastic cup full of water in the heating duct, and fill it when it gets empty.
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