Re: room humidifiers

[Guest guest]

Your sinuses become so dry, they develope fine cracks and mucous

linings that are to protect and 'catch'/snag, however you want to

call it, " stuff " in the air from getting into your sinuses are

compromised, so you have to walk the fine line between whats good for

your health and your house health. In winter I find that I start to

have problems if humidity dips below 30% in house. I bought a new

furnace and my old whole house humidifier went with it so this winter

I bought a room humidifier. I have it in the room we use the most

and the humidity there has been about 30% despite the high ceilings

and very dry, cold weather we are having, which I think is pretty

good for something that just holds a gallon of water. I have to fill

it up every day approximately. I don't use the upstairs of my house

right now, so I don't test the humidity up there. If I slept in

upstairs bedroom, I would " probably " get one for bedroom and run it

at night while I slept on 'low'.

May has commented on humidifiers here before. You may find

his comments through the 'message search' feature.

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> I think this has been discussed but I don't remember. Yrs. ago we

had a

> humidifier attached to our furnace without any problems EVER.

[Guest guest]

Sue, put " Quicksteam " in message search and you will pull up a couple

conversations about humidifiers we had here. I remember because I

bought the Quicksteam. HOWEVER I tightened the lid too much and it

broke and water got into the motor and it was shot, so I just picked up

something handy to get through the rest of winter, so I can't comment

on the Quicksteam myself, but said he was using it, and it got

good reviews on Amazon.com. I got mine at Walgreens and they didn't

have any 'hot steam' humidifier which boil the water and make it germ

free. Mine is cool steam, as close as I could get, it heats the water

enough to make steam but doesn't boil it. I used to have

an 'evaporative' humidifier, which has a filter in it that sits in

water and fan blows air through filter that is wet and that humid air

goes out into house BUT I don't recommend those AT ALL, since mold

grows in those quickly. I haven't seen any signs of mold in my cool

mist but I've read recommendations of hot steam is better because the

mist comes out disinfected.

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> I think this has been discussed but I don't remember. Yrs. ago we had

a

> humidifier attached to our furnace without any problems EVER.

[Guest guest]

Clarification of my own post. I did not get the Quicksteam at

Walgreens. I got a replacement for the Quicksteam at Walgreens and

couldn't find one that boiled the water like Quicksteam, so I got

Walgreens own brand cool mist humidifier and it's doing okay. The

Quicksteam had a pad that absorbed minerals in tap water. The

Walgreens one doesn't have a mineral absorbent pad but recommends using

distilled water since it is mineral free but I can't afford

that....well I guess I could afford one a day, that would be about a

dollar a day, or used to be, but I'd have to buy more than 7 a week, so

I'm using tap water and figure it won't last as long as it could but it

wasn't that expensive anyway, so if it becomes clogged with minerals, I

guess I'll just get a new one but so far I've had it a couple months

and mineral deposits are not much. I clean whatever mineral deposits I

can reach w vinegar. I'm not getting a 'white powder' from humidifier

as some say this type can spray minerals leaving a white film. At

least I haven't noticed it yet. I got the Quicksteam from Amazon but

really was miserable with very low humidity and didn't want to wait for

shipment.

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got

> good reviews on Amazon.com. I got mine at Walgreens and they didn't

> have any 'hot steam' humidifier which boil the water and make it germ

> free.

[Guest guest]

Good thoughts! I had wondered about the cool vs. the hot steam vapor.

barb1283 wrote:

Sue, put " Quicksteam " in message search and you will pull up a couple

conversations about humidifiers we had here. I remember because I

bought the Quicksteam. HOWEVER I tightened the lid too much and it

broke and water got into the motor and it was shot, so I just picked up