Customer Reviews

Holmes HM6000-U 3-1/2-Gallon Cool Mist Humidifier

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The noise is unbearable!!! It's like having an airplane engine in your house... plus it doesn't really add enough humidity to the room and the water container is not properly designed. The filter does not work and the ionizing feature is a joke - -do not waste your money on this product!!!

This has got to be THE LOUDEST humidifier in the world. It is almost unbearably noisy. The fan runs so hard that the ground around my unit actually vibrates! But it does its job I guess, and one could never claim that this humidifier isn't a hard worker. *smile*

The fan is exceedingly loud even on low. Forget about sleeping, or even holding a conversation. Not sure if the electronic humidistat is working, since it never reached 45% humidity even after two days of basically continuous use.

I was so disappointed by this humidifier that I felt compelled to write my first online review. I couldn't help but laugh when every other review had noted the same problems I had. The packaging touts some proprietary fan design that is supposed to make the unit relatively quite, it was not. After 24 hours my wife jokingly started to refer to it as "the monster that lives in our bedroom". There is both the deafening sound of turbulent wind coming out of the top and an annoying rattling coming from the fan. The "filter check gage" never seemed to move much and hovered around the position that is supposed to denote the machine is off. The ionization feature made no detectable change in the air, I believe all it actually did was turn the yellow "ionizer" LED on. Today when I picked it up to return it (after only 2 ˝ days) I noticed the carpet underneath the unit was soaked. One terribly designed product! I returned it and got a cheaper humidifier from another manufacturer that is so quiet it is inaudible when on.

Bought this last night. Thought it looked nice and had a lot of nice features. When I plugged in and turned it on, it was so loud that I thought there was something slapping against the fan blade. My girlfriend and I spent about half an hour trying to figure out if we forgot to take something out. While we were trying to figure out the problem, our downstair neighbor rang our door bell and complained that the vibration was making a constant buzzing sound downstairs. TRUE STORY. I wish I read the reviews prior to the purchase. Now I'll have to waste more time returning this POS.

I can't give this a negative star as it's not an option. It is a negative star and my money went into the blackhole of Holmes coffers. Yes it is too loud but I tried to get past this as white noise. Daily cleaning has you removing the plastic filter door/metal screws. Won't last long. Does not get past 25% humidity. Does not cover 800 sq foot. Take it off the market immediately and issue an apology to the customers.

I have to agree with every other review. Just bought this at a store near us and when we plugged it in we just figured it must be defective. It couldn't possibly run that loud normally! Then I saw all these reviews...Don't be fooled by the neat design!

I really wish I'd read the reviews for this product before I purchased it. This thing is LOUD. The 1-touch mode or whatever it's called is a joke. When the unit decides the room is at the correct humididty level it will go into some horrible repeating on-off cycle. It is not possible to sleep with this thing on. The fan is loud and bulky and poor design contributes to lots of plastic rattles. I would recommend flushing my money down the toilet before purchasing this product.

I wish I read these terrible reviews before I spend $79 at Home Depot for this POS.

We have forced hot air at our house and desparately needed a humidifier. I decided to spend a lot to buy the most expensive one assuming that would get us the best quality. Boy was I wrong.

The thing is SO loud. We can only stand the low setting and even that is ridiculous. Forget even trying a higher setting.

It LEAKED! The container is fine, but somehow the unit has been leaking night after night. Our entire carpet got soaked and the ceiling below the unit is all yellow with water damage!

I can't believe a product like this can even be sold. I've had the unit for over a month and I'm not sure what to do.

I'm definitely going to contact Holmes, but I'm expecting to get nowhere with them. I'm not sure if Home Depot will take it back either.

DO NOT BUY THIS!! Trust me, it's terrible.

My wife purchased one for our 2 year old... It worked great for the first 3 nights. We wanted one that had a rumble to it ( powerful fan ). However after night three it began to squeak. This squeak was so loud that it woke us all up and my wife and I are 40 feet away behind a closed door. We thought that wa just had a defective unit so we returned it to our local Walmart and got another one.

Go figure the next one was the exact same way... I'll be contacting Holmes about this P.O.S.