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Owning a humidifier can provide countless amazing perks and benefits to homeowners and business owners around the world. However, it’s important to understand how these devices work and the potential problems that may arise – and one such example is white dust coming out of your humidifier.
Fortunately, this usually is not a major challenge or issue, and our experts have summarized some of the key things you should know about white dust coming out of your humidifier device as follows to help you resolve the problem. Don’t worry; for the most part, it’s not a major issue!
Have you noticed that white dust appears to be coming out of your humidifier (in addition to the regular water vapour)? If this is something you’ve seen, it’s easy to begin panicking and thinking that the device is broken. However, in the vast majority of cases, this isn’t what’s happening at all. In fact, white dust coming out of your humidifier usually means that there’s a build-up of minerals within the device.
Why might this have happened? When water evaporates in the humidifier, the previously contained minerals (for example, calcium) become airborne. These can then settle as fine white dust on surfaces or remain in your humidifier to be expelled later.
Generally speaking, this issue is more common in areas with hard water, which contains a higher mineral content. However, even soft water can contain minerals, so this issue can always arise in your humidifier unless you use specifically purified water.
If you want to stop white dust from coming out of your humidifier device, it’s important to tackle the main issue at the outset. This means cleaning the humidifier fully to remove any mineral deposits that may have built up, which luckily doesn’t need to be a major challenge.
You can also take steps to help prevent this issue from becoming a problem in the future. For one thing, if you’re looking to buy a new humidifier, try to purchase one with filters (or change the filters in your current humidifier more regularly).
In addition, making a small change to start using distilled, filtered, or purified water in your humidifier may also help; distilled water is the so-called “gold standard” here, so if you can source this, it can make a big difference to your humidifier’s condition and help prevent white dust from being produced significantly.
When things go wrong with your humidifier, it’s easy to panic or think that the device is broken. However, in many cases, this isn’t true, and actually, there may be relatively simple explanations for the problems you’ve been experiencing. Fortunately, our team here at Smillon can help with this.
So, if you have any further questions about why your humidifier might be spreading white dust, please don’t be afraid to ask our experts at Jelly.Wang@smillon.com.
