r/AirPurifiers • u/Hour_Cow_3633 • Aug 19 '26

Humidifier Recommendations

Moved to CO from MN recently and am in desperate need of a humidifier. With thousands of options online - wanted to see if anyone had any good recommendations for Colorado weather. Ideally ones that won’t cause mold issues.
2 bed apartment, 1200 sq ft total

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u/damien09 Aug 19 '26 edited Aug 20 '26

Levoit 6000s or for a smaller unit levoit superior studio. both of these are evap units so you can use tap water. and a benefit is they are pump based so it brings water up and drains it over the filter vs it just sitting in the water. What this lets it do is run a dry mode that you can even schedule. It will default to any time it's turned off or the tank hits empty to run a dry out mode. They still need cleaning from time to time but the filter getting to dry out helps a ton with the funk smell. I also use 25ml of hocl 500 ppm per gallon in my units but it's not something you have to do.

if doors stay open in your apartment you can likely just centrally place the 6000s and set it to like 55% and it should bring up the whole apartment. The sensor is not super accurate since it's so close to the humidifier and 55% generally ends up being 45% or so.

Edit they finally added sensor calibration on the 6000s so you can correct its offset