Customer Reviews for Vornado - Evap40 Whole Room Evaporative Humidifier - White
Customer Rating
5
Best humidifier ever
on December 14, 2014
Posted by: Matts
from Vermont
I am glad this humidifier is back. It should never go out of stock again. I really like the tanks with the easy lift up handles and the fact that there is no cap on the tanks. The tanks feed water due to gravity. Very basic ideas are often the best.
This humidifier works great. It has raised the humidity in our entire home which is 2200 sq ft. Quiet enough to have in the main living area. It does make a bubbling sound as the tanks are refilling the base but we now we are used to it and at least I know it working when it does it. Good controls and easy operation.
After owning three different ultrasonic humidifiers the last few years my greatest lament has been "Why don't they make larger capacity tanks?!?!" Having to fill them twice or three times a day in my climate has been a pain. Thank you for such a large capacity tank, and one that is so easy to fill. Given the size of my main living area I may find myself buying a second unit rather soon. My only wish is that there was an alternative to buying replacement wicking filters. If someone can invent a permanent filter they can make great products like these even better!
I live in an all electric home...had a humidifier for the last 20 plus years and it runs 24/7/365. Wouldn't buy any other brand than Vornado! Great price, great service, ease of ordering filters...wouldn't own any others.
I am impressed with how quiet this humidifier is, even on High speed ( on which mine is always set ). After having a Sunbeam brand humidifier, this baby is whisper quiet in comparison. However, I do not feel that it does as large an area as it claims. The humidifier runs continually (unless it is raining outside, only then it will shut off). It takes a while to get used to the fill jugs. They have a very narrow hole for in which to fill the tank and it feels strange placing them into the machine. However, the positive here is that there are no parts to wear out on the fill tanks. I would consider this to be more a room humidifier rather than a whole house humidifier. The machine will usually put two gallons of moisture in the air overnight and about as much during the day so filling the tanks is usually twice a day (for in which I do not have a problem, after all that is what we want this machine to do--put moisture in the air). I do not have a large area and it struggles to keep the air moist (always under 45%and rarely reaches that high unless it is raining). I guess I can say I have mixed feelings on this product, but it does a nice job for what it does.
Wish the water tanks would dispense water at a more equal level. Right hand tank dispenses 10X more the than left hand tank. Customer service says "No problem" as long as both are dispensing.
We live in New England and have forced air heating, which inevitably dries everything out. This sucker does a pretty good job at keeping the room at least a bit above 30% on a really cold/dry day and ideally around 40-50 percent on those milder days. Very quiet, reservoir lasts a long time, and maintenance is fairly easy. Pretty cool water filling system too. Haven't spilled more than a couple of drips or two. Even on the high setting it's pretty quiet overall.