poor mans humidifier

[hupte]

I used to put a pan of water on top of the wood stove for humidity. until the owb. so i purchased this unit.

well it died out, now i went back to the poor mans humidifier. strips of cardboad inside of a pan of water. then set the pan on top of the heat vent.

got sick of that so i installed one on the furnace 2 days ago. problem is this old farm house requires so much heat that this humidifier cant keep up. humidistat is reading about 10% humidity. so i'm using the poor mans humifier with the furnace mounted humidifier. lol.

 

[Whitespider]

The wife buys those little disposable foil bread pans and sets them inside the heat vents.
Once or twice a day (depending) she walks around with one of those long-spout, house-plant watering cans and fills them right through the grates.
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[woodchuck357]

A pan of water boiling away on the cookstove.
Works even if you have a gas furnace.

 

[mn woodcutter]

I put about 3 gallons of water into the air every day with our stove top pan. We used to have to run an electric humidifier before the stove.

 

[laynes69]

We suffered for quite a few years during the wintertime heating with a woodfurnace, dry air, nose bleeds, sore throat, etc. We had a floor model whole house humidifier that used gallons of water a day, and it still was bad. As we've tightened up our home, humidity levels have increased. It's 10° right now with -16 chills, no humidifier and the humidity level is at 29%. Tightening up the home was the best thing I've ever done.

 

[chadihman]

I used to put a pan of water on top of the wood stove for humidity. until the owb. so i purchased this unit.

well it died out, now i went back to the poor mans humidifier. strips of cardboad inside of a pan of water. then set the pan on top of the heat vent.

got sick of that so i installed one on the furnace 2 days ago. problem is this old farm house requires so much heat that this humidifier cant keep up. humidistat is reading about 10% humidity. so i'm using the poor mans humifier with the furnace mounted humidifier. lol.

That's sucks man. I also installed one of those whole house Honeywell humidifiers and I used it a week and it's been unused for three years now. BS

 

[Landmark]

I tried a whole house humidifier without any success. the humidity it put in the system seem to burn up when the air passed through the heat exchanger.

 

[kingHarold]

Hi guys! Is there anyone who could help me with my humidifier problem. My question is. Why is myhumidifier, making a noise? Thanks for the help.

 

[brenndatomu]

Why is myhumidifier, making a noise?

Maybe it's too dry?! Ha, sorry. What kind of a noise?

 

[tla100]

Hi guys! Is there anyone who could help me with my humidifier problem. My question is. Why is myhumidifier, making a noise? Thanks for the help.

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