Customer Reviews for Vornado - Evap40 Whole Room Evaporative Humidifier - White
Customer Rating
4
Good humidifier
on December 7, 2014
Posted by: Snowis
from Seattle
Easy to use, quite operation, has improved the air quality in our home. Surprised at how effectively it has increased the humidity throughout our home. Recommend locating humidifier near the furnace return in the home and switching furnace fan to circulate to distribute the humidity throughout entire house. Very happy with purchase.
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.
I replaced my ultrasonic humidifier with this one. The ultrasonics require constant cleaning of hard water deposits and everything around them gets covered in a white dust. not sure what that's all about. I've been using the evap40 vortex for several weeks and I'm very happy with it. It holds a ton of water and all the hard water deposits are centralized in the 2 filters. The filters can be cleaned in a vinegar water soak, just don't wring them out or they'll tear up. It runs very quiet in the bedroom with the only objectionable sound is the gulping noise when water leaves the tanks to fill the bottom of the unit, hence my 4 star rating instead of 5.
I had two of them a long time ago and needed a third--New York City forced-air heating is very dry. I tried every other Vornado and had my problems with every one--leaking, replacing, leaking again. But now I am so happy and have no more worries. I'm back to being a cheerleader for this Vornado humidifier.
I have owned 4 different humidifiers over the years. First attracted to this one for capacity. Very happy that it is made in America. Performance is very good. Simple, only 4 pieces and 2 filters make it easy to maintain. Quiet and efficient. I am a "happy camper".