Honeywell HWM450 Quick Steam Warm Moisture Humidifier

I bought this unit and used it for a week and MUST return. It is noisy and it leaked all over my furniture and damage my night stand. My wife is really piss at me now. I should listen to the reviews here about the leaking. Buy it if you want to damage your carpet or furniture. Trust me and you will thanks me later.

I recently purchased and returned this product. It warms the room up nicely and adds noticeable moisture to the dry air in our office. The main problem I ran into is that with all the warm mist, the inside of the unit collects lots of condensation that in turn drips down and drips out of the unit onto the counter. It's quite a bit of water that needs to constantly be cleaned up to point that it isn't convenient in the work environment. It didn't appear that the actual water reservoir was leaking but it was hard to tell. Another issue that I has was poor design or craftsmanship on the buttons, low quality production I guess.

It went through about 1 1/2 gallons of water set at about 55% humidity when running for an 8 hour day. I didn't have it long enough to have to clean it, but the product was easy to assemble, fill up and doesn't have many extra costs (I bought distilled water and replacement filters). I would have really liked it if it didn't have so much water coming out of it all the time.

I've had the product now for 2 years. Although a tad noisy, it worked well during that time. Until recently when I noticed the plastic cap on the water container had seemingly melted a bit. The quality seems poor and I would probably avoid Honeywell as a product in general for all future purchases.

I have been using this for last 6 months. It works good. I am not using tap water. I change the deminaralization pad every month. I clean it with vinegar every month. If I do not change pad/clean, the humidifier starts leaking. I felt once in a month is perfectly ok.

This has been my favorite humidifier ever, so much that I bought two. Cleaning required vinegar and a good soaking, but you can "fool" the unit into thinking you've cleaned by removing the digital control portion and replacing it. I found that I can rinse and reuse the mineral pads once and then they need replacing. After having a tough time finding them, I realized Home Depot stocks them. I've had the first unit for 2 years and the second for a year and they both started leaking within a few weeks of each other, resulting in soaked wet carpeting. I had to replace the one in my son's room with a cool mist as I was concerned about him getting burned. I'm not sure why they started leaking or if anyone has suggestions as to a fix. It just keeps putting out water into the tray and won't stop.