Yesterday we are with you discussed ultrasonic humidifiers and talked a little about alternatives.
In winter, I had to buy a Boneco S200 steam humidifier. He literally saved my nose.
While I was hiding from sneezing people for the duration of my vaccination and poured any prophylactic filth into my nose, my nose cracked and bloody crusts appeared in it.
It became clear that this case heals for a long time without a moisturizer. At home I have fresh air ventilation and it is very dry, so six humidifiers are crammed into different cabinets and corners. Moreover, three different ones are made by the Swiss Boneco. I trust them. They have nice-smelling food grade plastic and generally handy appliances. Nothing breaks or falls out of your hands.
In short, in winter in cold weather it is quite possible to indulge in a steam humidifier for a while.
It works like a stove and eats at a maximum rate of 260 watts of energy. It's a lot. Electricity bills upset me. But it makes no sense to put less power, because at the maximum, it gives out no more than 350 milliliters of water per hour.
Such a moisturizer can overmoisten. If I had decent humidity at home, then the humidifier would have to be monitored. But my winter is dry and cool, so the Boneco steam boiled all daylight.
You won't be able to sleep next to him at night. At least to my spoiled ear. It gurgles with a tank of water and gurgles with steam. During the day, this gurgling of steam does not interfere at all. It's kind of cozy.
But this does not last long. If you do not use special descaling agents and do not clean the humidifier, then it begins to creak and squeak disgustingly. That is, the accumulated scale heats the water somehow incorrectly and creaks.
In addition, from scale, the humidifier quickly overheats, turns off more often and moisturizes less.
Scale
I liked this Boneco's anti-scale chips.
Firstly, it included two special porous discs that absorb scale and do not affect the sound of the humidifier.
Strange things like felt, about the size of a burger patty. For my Barnaul water, these two disks were enough for about a month. Then it was necessary to descale the humidifier every 5 days with some kind of chemical.
Secondly, a package of acid for descaling was already included with the humidifier. There was no need to measure the lemon.
It's also nice that the humidifier has a special cleaning mode. Well, that is, when you pour citric acid somewhere into household appliances made of good plastic, then usually this business cannot be boiled. You just need to heat up to 40 degrees. And here in my humidifier there is such a mode when you can pour an acid solution there and let it automatically warm up for a couple of hours without boiling. Very comfortably.
Essential oils
He also has a grill on top with a tiny trough for essential oils. We have already discussed recovery and scent testing with different scents, so I dumped half of my stock of oils in there. Just out of interest. Suitable as a flavoring for the New Year. But I am wary of essential oils, so this is just self-indulgence.
Where to put
In short, if you want the evaporation efficiency to be higher, then remove this grate with a trough from above, and more steam will come out.
I put the humidifier next to the workplace and just leaned over it every 10 minutes for half a minute. Moisturized both dry eyes and nose cracked from drops. The humidifier literally saved me.
The fact that they say that there is not hot steam is bullshit. The steam is hot. Therefore, it is better not to bring your nose too close. Any animal or child about him will easily scald or overturn on himself. So the nursery needs another specially non-spillable moisturizer.
Now point by point
What's wrong:
- May overmoisten the air.
- It consumes a lot of energy.
- It makes a loud noise at night.
- You can scald yourself.
- Dear.
- There will be white scale in the humidifier itself, which will need to be removed with a citric acid solution.
What's good:
- Any water suits him.
- Microbes in it die, and dead ones do not fly out.
- There is no white coating on the furniture and on the lungs.
- I personally used it as a steam inhaler.
- Humidifies the air guaranteed and uninterrupted.
- For an amateur, you can add essential oils.
He's like that runabout, which they talked about only as a second car. That is, more like an inhaler than a humidifier.
