How to make a humidifier

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

In winter, when it is freezing outside, and various heating devices are working in full force in buildings, the air in the premises becomes very dry. This removes moisture not only from the human body (which affects the condition of the skin and hair), but also from the surrounding objects made of hygroscopic materials, which also harms human health and the condition of these objects. Also, due to less oxygen in dry air, a headache starts and the risk of catching a cold or flu increases.

In general, there is little pleasant in dry air, and mothers of young children know especially well about this, since as soon as the child appears in the house, a double boiler, a yogurt maker, a humidifier and an air ionizer appear after him. And from the doctors' stories about what threatens your child with too dry air in the apartment, you can collect a whole book. To be honest, I wanted to buy a humidifier myself when a new addition appeared in our family. And not so much because of the dry air, but because of the presence of a fluffy cat in the house: thanks to the humidifier, wool and dust do not fly around the apartment, but settle on the floor or on furniture, so it becomes much easier to clean it all up. Therefore, I also wanted a water vacuum cleaner.:) But my husband, as befits a true life hacker and a man who does not tolerate a pile of things in a house, said not to invent and cope with grandmother's methods. The “grandmother's method” is a bowl of water on a radiator, which, unfortunately, is not very convenient, and, considering the cat and the child, who poke their curious noses everywhere, it is also difficult to do.

And just a few days ago, one of the readers of Lifehacker, Andrey Soloviev, sent us a life hack on how to make an air humidifier. If I saw this 5 years ago, I would not have to suffer with bowls and batteries.

To make a humidifier, you will need a plastic bottle, a utility knife or scissors, gauze, water, and of course a battery.

Cut a hole about 5x10 cm in the side of the plastic bottle.
Hang it upside down on the horizontal battery tube using fabric straps.
Fasten the straps to the bottle with tape so that it does not slip away.
Fold the gauze in several layers in the form of a rectangle 10 cm wide and about a meter long.
Lower one end of the wick into the slot of the bottle, and wind the rest around the hot tube of the battery. Better to make two of these wicks.
Pour water into the bottle (for example, using another bottle).

The device has been successfully installed and ready to use.