Honeywell HCM-6009 Quiet Care Cool Moisture Multi Room Humidifier

The large screw on caps make it easy to clean the tanks.  I saw comments that the caps are hard to remove.  But I assume the lady is not using the finger grips built in the caps.  If you try to unscrew using the outside diameter, it is difficult.  Just use the finger grips in the cap that appear as circular indentations.  The tanks are abit awkward filling in the sink.  But overall this is a nice product.

I am a guitar player and have 6 guitars that I leave out of their cases in a rack. Humidity in Toronto is 20 per cent during winter. That destroys guitars. The option is to put a separate case humidifer in each one, which costs more than 100 for me.

I looked a while and this Honeywell is fantastic. It has a small profile on the floor, given what it does, humidifie a large open space without doors. Its easy to humidify a sealed room, but a regular apartment is hard, you cannot seal any doors to the main living space.

I brought it home and filled it, make sure to dampen the filter first, dont squeeze it, just put it in damp. The thing has casters so maneouvering it was easy. I turned it on with the water containers filled and within 10 minutes my apartment was at 47 per cent. THe unit has a smart feature, so you set it to the position on the dial that gives you good humidity. I have a separate hygrometer on another unit which failed me, its a competitors brand so i wont name it, but it was terrible.

The unit shut off at 47 and went quiet. Once in a while, it comes on, on the lowest fan setting, and just tops the humidity up. It is mostly off! Its so efficient that it hardly runs, within a minute of starting it has the room back at my setting. I was floored, after bad experiences with other humidifiers that failed to break 38 per cent, even cranked to full. Canadian winters are dry.

So I highly recommend this unit, I am keeping thousands of dollars worth of good guitars maintained. So I depend on this thing to work, its not just a comfort issue.  But the lack of itching and the feeling of good humidified air is a side bonus which I like.

Not used very much, as yet, but this humidifier gives strong performance in an 450 SF room.

I just bought this 2013 10th Feb  but your date only went up to 2012 ??? Can you change  ?

I just bought this Feb 10th 2013  but your date only goes up to 2012 so can you change this?

This humidifier works great and runs a long time between needing refils. 

I had a feeling when I bought this unit only one month ago that I was going to have trouble with filling the tanks. Sure enough, I filled one tonight and went to flip it over and it slipped out of my hands and broke. The unit works great and if fairly quiet but I think Honeywell could come up with a better design for filling. So far I have found one source for replacement tanks at a price of $34.00 plus shipping. Hope I can find one a little more reasonable.

Works fine BUT filling it from the bottom, with a rubber gasket, is not easy for a woman to take off to fill it.  Why can't the opening to fill it be on the top and there not be the need for this rubber gasket.  Many people using this are old, or women who live alone or with children.  I have had to call my neighbor to unscrew it so I could fill it, or riscue it spilling all over the floor when I turn it upside down to carry it back to the unit.

Also, when filling it, it should be able to rest flat.  It is a battle to balance it as it is, and it gets worse the more it fills.

It works great but the design needs GREAT IMPROVEMENT.  It is definitely not designed for anyone except the strong male.  And there aren't too many of them that fill these things.

Summary:

Fill from the top,  somehow support the bottom in a square position to balance while filling.  while incorporating the handle, which could be on the side.  SIMPLY:  Open from the top, carry from the side, a few plastic nubs on the bottom for support when filling.