I currently have a bypass humidifier on my geothermal heat pump. It works OK, but it’s difficult to adjust water flow so it doesn’t waste too much into the overflow. Water’s expensive where I live.
I’m considering switching to a steam type unit. Possibly an Aprilair unit.
I’ve heard that heat pumps output is not hot enough to efficiently evaporate the water from the pad type humidifier I have now. This may or may not be true, and maybe it doesn’t really matter.
Anyone have any experience with steam humidifiers they’d like to share?
I just saw an Ask This Old House (Season 12, Episode 12) where they installed a whole house steam generator humidifier. The unit they installed was the Nortec NH-EL. I can’t find an estimated price on the unit, but if I were going to have a humidifier installed, this would probably be the one.
Try to watch the segment on this as there is a bit of tricky stuff there.
I saw that episode and that’s why I’m considering a steam unit. I like the idea of a self cleaning unit, though I do have soft water with less than 1gr of hardness. My hvac guy says steam units require lots of cleaning, so he and I will be having some discussion about that.
Seriously, we once had a Kaz vaporizer–my little brother caught colds a lot.