Venta - LW45 Original Humidifier

Look up the venta humidifier. It spins a plastic cylinder of disks slowly and blows air over it. I got mine shipped from home depot but Amazon has them too. Get that and a bottle of steramine tablets. Put a half in once a month or two when you clean it. It won't get nasty, you don't need to replace any paper filters, it doesn't get mildew or messy gross like ultrasonic. And seems well built enough to actually be bifl.

Get a Venta Humidifier, it's uses evaporation instead of the usual ultrasonic humidifier (which can be harmful). It's pricier but way easier to clean and maintain and last a long time. 

I don't know a out the others, but the Venta humidifiers are very reliable, repairable, and quiet. They also don't leave resedue on anything and don't have any cloth cartridges to get moldy. Just follow the directions and put in the water treatments (or make your own.) They are expensive for a reason. I expect my lw45 to be running for the next 25 years at least.

I use a Venta and I’m happy with it. Yes it’s marketed as an air purifier, but I have a coway air purifier that I run all the time anyway.

When you’ve made it to buyitforlife- asking for functionality over aesthetics. “Please excuse the large window unit sitting on the floor in the middle of the walkway in my bedroom”

I second Levoit 6000S, I just got it after owning the AirCare, Honeywell, and Venta. None of them comes close to the Levoit in terms of humidifying power and noise. For reference, where I'm from it is 20-32% humidity without a humidifier. I get to 50% with the Levoit, the only one that can easily achieve that.

i got a Venta LW45 for years, happy with it. its simple, gentle, real machine.

Yes. I run my Venta with distilled only. I make my own distilled was with a Vevor distiller bit of a pain but better then buying. I wash out the distiller with just plain white vinager every 2 weeks to remove build up.

Evaporative. Get a Venta. I don't recommend anything but I'll recommend the shit out of those humidifiers. The air purification part is minimal but it's the easiest and best humidifier. Just a box of water open to the air, never gets nasty and even if the water gets a little dusty it doesn't take that shit with it, and cleaning it is wiping the box. A literal miracle as far as I'm concerned