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Our MBR is very dry in the winter causing me to have a dry hacking cough during the night and after I wake up. It's gone shortly after I wake up. I have measured the humidity in that room and in the winter, it IS very dry.
I do NOT want to buy a humidifier. The hassle of keeping the thing clean just isn't something I want to deal with.
I have the hot type and never have any trouble "keeping it clean". After a couple years the mineral buildup on the heating element causes it to fail, but I just toss it as they only cost about $40.
Our MBR is very dry in the winter causing me to have a dry hacking cough during the night and after I wake up. It's gone shortly after I wake up. I have measured the humidity in that room and in the winter, it IS very dry.
I do NOT want to buy a humidifier. The hassle of keeping the thing clean just isn't something I want to deal with.
Any ideas?
The best system to provide you with a full range of humidity control equally throughout your house would be to have a whole house steam humidifier system installed. Aprilaire is a leading manufacturer and you should be able to get quotes from most HVAC contractors. Bypass humidifiers (you might already have this) or a whole house stand alone humidifier would be very ineffective compared to a Steam Humidifier!
I have those clay balls that sit in a little dish of water and they work great--no noise, no light to wake me up at night. You do have to rinse off the ball and replace the water every other day. Some people say they don't work, but they have raised the humidity to a comfortable level in the rooms where I have them. I got one set at Amazon and the other at HSN.
You could always just use a "vent free" propane heater, those add a lot of water to the air
Anything that adds humidity to the air is de facto a humidifier, and thus susceptible to the same ills (scale, bacteria, fungus, etc) as a purpose-built humidifier. And probably less cost efficient & energy efficient.
Buy an "ultrasonic" or "warm mist" style humidifier, use distilled water only == minimal cleaning effort.
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You could always water the carpet everyday, or maybe hang wet towels all over the room each night.
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You could always just use a "vent free" propane heater, those add a lot of water to the air
