How To Clean Humidifier with Vinegar
How To Clean Humidifier with Vinegar
Easy Cleaning Tips with Vinegar
Winter is such a dry season, and a Cool Mist Humidifiers help cut the dry air. Keeping your Cool Mist Humidifier clean is crucial. It’s not hard to clean, but if you don’t clean the humidifier it will become a breeding ground for mold, bacteria and viruses which will do more harm and will compromise the health of you and your family! How To Clean Humidifier with Vinegar is easy with these few tips.
How To Clean Humidifier with Vinegar is easy and will keep your family breathing easier! Here is how you can keep your humidifier clean.
- Take apart your humidifier; take off the tank and the nozzle on top.
- Pour about a 1/2 to 1 cup of White Vinegar in the base of your humidifier. Let this sit for at least 30 minutes
- Carefully pour out the vinegar after about 30 minutes and use a soft sponge or soft cloth and wipe it out thoroughly.
- Fill the tank with water and add 1/2 cup of vinegar, put the humidifier back together and run the humidifier to allow the vinegar water mixture to run through the whole machine to clean the entire machine.
- After about 20 minutes empty the tank and base and rinse with clean water.
- I run the humidifier with fresh water for about an hour to make sure it is all clean.
- Take everything apart again to allow it dry thoroughly before storing away or reusing!
Do this vinegar cleanse every week or even every other week will prevent your machine from build up, it will also keep your family safe.
Once your humidifier is empty or if you just need to fill it up with water to get through the night you will need to empty out the tank and base thoroughly and fill with Freshwater! Using fresh water every time keeps bacteria out as well. When you keep the water fresh, the old water can’t cycle through and will prevent bacteria from growing.
How to clean humidifier is super easy but take note that each humidifier is different so check out your make and model and website.
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February 27, 2016 @ 8:43 pm
Humidifiers are so important for managing my families allergies. We keep the humidity between 55% and 65%. Thank you for the cleaning tips so that we can safely run our humidifier all the time.
February 28, 2016 @ 9:51 am
I didn’t know you can clean it with vinegar. Thanks for the tips!
March 9, 2016 @ 10:19 am
We just bought a new humidifier, because of my son’s allergies and I just needed to find a simple, natural way to clean it. Your tips and the idea of using vinegar seem to work perfectly for me. Thank you for sharing this useful information. Definitely recommending your post to some friends. Greets!
April 29, 2016 @ 1:12 am
i love what you can clean with vinegar these are great tips and tricks. thanks for sharing
April 29, 2016 @ 1:13 am
Vinegar has so many uses. I love that it is safe fro the environment and a great way to clean almost anything! Thanks for sharing this awesome tip.
November 7, 2016 @ 5:43 am
Thank you so much for this great article.! I never knew we can actually use regular vinegar along with other tools for basic cleaning. I have the exact same humidifier and know I’ve been needing to clean it. This is now at the top of my to do list tomorrow.
February 19, 2017 @ 7:23 pm
Yay! I’m relieved to see that this is a lot easier than I had feared. Our humidifier definitely needs some love, and I’m glad that there’s a solution which just involves vinegar and water! (Though isn’t there always? 🙂 Thanks for your help!