Product description
Quick humidification for large rooms
For arid climates or the dry cold days of winter, running a steam humidifier indoors often protects the inhabitants' skin from chapping or itching, allows stressed lungs to breathe with comfort, and infuses moisture into the room to the benefit wooden furniture, upholstery, and houseplants to prevent them from becoming brittle or parched. Honeywell created their Quick Steam Warm Moisture Humidifier for all of these purposes and more, enhancing a room's humidity in record speed. Best suited for rooms up to 1400 square feet in size, the humidifier's heater is crafted in stainless steel for quick heat production and trouble-free cleaning. The compact humidifier outputs 4 gallons of warm steam for each full tank of water. This humidifier offers users a timer function for running the unit for preset periods, ranging from an hour to the maximum 18-hour setting. Digital controls and the easy-to-read LCD screen enable users to alter or monitor current preference settings. A medicine cup allows users to run the humidifier as a vaporizer for stuffed noses, sore throats and other respiratory illnesses. An automatic shutdown feature reduces safety hazards. Humidifier water should be changed frequently and the tank washed well each week to prevent bacteria, mold, and other impurities from developing, though the heating process should kill many of these unhealthy particles. As with any electrical home device, read all manufacturer guidelines and instructions prior to use. This humidifier measures 15.55 by 14.57 by 10.24 inches and weighs 6 pounds upon shipping. --Jessica Reuling
Features
- Warm steam humidifier reduces static electricity and prevents drying in indoor environments; manufactured by Honeywell.
- Heats water with a stainless-steel heater; easy to fill, clean, and carry water tank; digital controls and LCD display.
- Outputs 4 gallons of moist steam per tank; best employed in rooms up to 1400 square feet in size.
- Medicine cup provided for dispensing vapors; clean regularly to prevent mold and germs from festering.
- Humidifier measures 15.55 by 14.57 by 10.24 inches and weighs 6 pounds upon shipping; no filter needed for this item.
Customer Reviews
Works well -- 2010-08-12
I use this humidifier in a small office at work, and have a second for home, but use it only in the bedroom. In my location, it is insufficient for a larger space. However, that would depend on your starting humidity levels. I have found it to be very difficult to raise the humidity to a comfortable level in a large space where the humidity levels start below 20%.
By the way, those wondering why someone would want to humidify in the middle of summer, come visit us here in New Mexico in June! If I can get a humidity reading above 20% I'm doing well! However, I don't recommend the cool mist humidifiers, they leave white dust. Also, the ones that rely on evaporation with a large fan work well but are loud. This warm steam humidifier is pleasant, it's just not enough to do a whole house in a dry area.
lung ailments -- 2010-07-02
i bought this product for my uncle he has a lot of lung problems from working in the coal mines in west virginia he gets extreme cases of bhronchitis 3 out of the four seasons he says that this machine has kept his out of the hosp more than once works extremly well
It works -- 2010-06-05
I've had a few humidifies over the years. Most simpler and easier and a bit easier to clean. None that HAD to be cleaned every few weeks like this one. It develops a smell if not cleaned, as others have noted, it builds up deposits, and the pads get filthy FAST. I have to think to some extent the industry has moved to this design, using disposable pads to keep units clean just to sell you more stuff all the time. Otherwise you'd buy a humidifier once every 10 yrs, where's the profit in that?
At any rate, it does work. If you set the humidistat all the way up it can run the tank out in less than 12 hours sometimes. By far the majority of the time the tank only needed filling daily, in a 20 x 25 room, heated to about 68 in the winter. Clean it, and it'll keep you happy. Wish I could still get the old model though.
Bought 2 of them and we love them -- 2010-05-04
Had a honeywell cool air humidfier before. Our hard water keept killing the wicks and the growth in the wicks meant we had to change them out alot. Because they are not cheep it get's expenive fast to keep it running. Now I clean the unit's about once a week with vinigar and a rinse and everytihng is good. love them!
If only it can boost a higher humidity level ... -- 2010-04-15
I bought this humidifier from Amazon after a really extensive research exercise. I can't remember how many websites/forums I've visited ... I've looked at brands like Air-O-Swiss, Bionaire, Vicks & obviously Honeywell; what I'm looking for is a unit that doesn't require filter change, quiet operation, good enough for a bachelor (<600 sq-ft)and hopefully last reasonably long. I've been through 3 humidifiers already in the past 3 years: an ultrasonic one (can't remember the brand name, not 1 of those 4 aforementioned) that ceased to work after just over a year with white deposit gumming up the vibrating plate, a Vicks boiler type that ceased to work after a few months when it started to output no mist but burnt smell, & a Honeywell fan-blowing cool-mist HCM-890 which is louder than an industrial blower. I'm sick & tired of constantly needing to find a better humidifier so you won't believe how much I struggled before I committed on this HWM450 of Honeywell.
So I've been using it for a couple of months now. The 1 thing that I can say about the unit is ... an ok product. The general user comments on Amazon about this product are by-and-large accurate - quiet machine, above average water capacity storage, lots of maintenance work required, not really powerful moisture output etc. Even though it's a boiler, it's somewhat quieter than my previous Vicks, but with 3 gallons there're not too many other options that can rival its tank capacity. But tank capacity is 1 thing, humidity level achievable is another - isn't that what humidifier is for afterall? According to the build-in display, the unit can raise the humidity of my bachelor to 40% only, regardless of whether I set the target to 40% or higher, & changing the 3 power levels won't matter at all. In fact only the middle level can constantly reach 40% whereas the lower & high are touch-&-go. For comparison, my noisy HCM890 can easily push the humidity to beyond 55%. I live in Toronto, & being in a condo with forced air humidity is constantly below 20%, so I guess 40% is better than 20%! It also takes a long time to go up to 40% as well - I'd say > 2 hrs than plateau & couldn't go any higher until emptying the tank. & to be fair a full tank will keep the humidity at 40% or just below throughout the entire night & beyond, even at the high power level. We have hard water from our taps, so deposit appears on the heating plate even after the 1st time I used it. But thanks to the other users' suggestion on this forum, white vinegar cleans up the deposit very easily, & I found that cleaning every week after daily usage is more than enough. 1 more bone to pick maybe is the tank cap, not sure why but I have trouble lining up the threads everytime I try to tightly it up, & whatever I do still feels like the cap is kinked, but everytime the tank fits properly back to the base & doesn't seem to leak, so I guess it's just a poor molding of the threads on my unit.
I paid $65 including everything for this, can't really say it's a great deal but it's the best deal I could find by the time. Certainly I was expecting a not-so-cheap humidifier to lift humidity level higher than it does, but I'm not aware of any alternative that has all its pros without its cons. So I can't say I regret buying it - especially if it lasts longer than any of my previous ones. But it's certainly a case of can be better.
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