I would not recommend the portable Holmes model available at Walmart. You
set the humidity to, say, 40%. Now when the humidity gets close to 40, the
measured humidity digital display of course will bounce between 39 and 40
(or 40 and 41). Instead of having electronics that recognizes some
tolerance is needed, the damn fan goes on then off then on then off every
couple seconds forever as the display flickers until it finally settles at
40 for a short time then it starts all over again. This is ridiculous, it's
going back, hope to find better. This was the 2nd one I tried, the first
one had the same problem and also a noisy fan.


"Matt" wrote in message
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First time poster, but many time advice gainer...thanks, great group.

We recently bought a 2500 sq. foot ranch outside of Albany NY. No central
air/heat, but we have a LP boiler and baseboard heat. We heat zone 1
(front
of house- LR/DR/Kitchen/FR) primarily with a woodstove. My question is
what
type of humidifier would you recommend? The house is pretty dry. HD has
a
few choices, but I am not sold on anything quite yet.

Thanks for any thoughts here.

Matt