When You’re Buying a Humidifier, Buy for a Specific Room or Purpose

Jan. 11, 2011 - PRLog -- The primary question to ask when buying a humidifier is this: What specific purposes does this humidifier need to fulfill? To help you answer that question, you need to check the humidity level in the rooms or areas where you plan to use the unit.

As an example, let’s say you’ve checked the humidity of your office air with a hygrometer, which is a humidity measuring tool. The relative humidity hovers around 20% (lower than the Sahara desert, which averages 25%), and sometimes even gets as low as 5%. Your clothes cling, your computer suffers from malfunctions caused by the static electricity, and you’re plagued by mini-shocks whenever you walk across the carpet. All this has made you realize that increasing the humidity level of your dry indoor office air can make your workday more pleasant.

You understand that the humidifier you use must be fairly quiet, because you're on the phone a lot and frequently there's ambient noise from adjacent offices. Another consideration is that your office is small and there’s not much maneuvering room for colleagues who stop in for a meeting. If you buy a warm mist humidifier someone might stumble into it and get a mild burn.

The purpose of the humidifier is to humidify your office air, and to accommodate your work colleagues. You prefer a warm mist humidifier because it'll make your chilly office air feel a bit warmer, but you don't want to be concerned that you or a colleague could get a burn from the moist hot air. A good solution to this problem would be a dual-purpose ultrasonic humidifier. When your boss is out of town or your colleagues are in meetings all day, you can run the warm mist; on other days, cool mist will suffice. An ultrasonic humidifier is quiet, plus your officemates won't create a hazard if they knock it over while on the cool mist setting.

Many people who suffer from allergies, asthma, respiratory ailments and sinusitis select different humidifiers for different rooms. A humidifier for an office serves one purpose; a humidifier you choose for your bedroom fulfills other criteria, as does a travel humidifier you take on trips to humidify ultra-dry hotel rooms.


To check humidity in your office or home, purchase an inexpensive hygrometer (a humidity measuring device) at your local hardware store or online. Recommendation: Humidifiers.Selection4Less.com.

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