Essick Air 1051 AirCare Filter

 (8 customer reviews)

This hangs on the back of the Essick/Bemis unit. I buy about one for every heating/humidifier season.

It WILL cut down on the amount of dust and crud entering the back of the unit and contaminating the saturated wick that is used to humidify.

As you well know with this unit, the cleaner and better quality the wick unit (1041) is, the better the unit will humidify.

It's not designed to be like a vacuum cleaner and suck particulate matter out of the air, but it WILL prevent air-borne particles from contaminating the wick unit and for that reason, I think it's worthwhile.

Additional: If you have seasonal allergies like I do, I found running the humidifier in the spring helps lessen them. Now while another reviewer says they found no cat hair on the filter, compare the relative size of the pollen allergen to a cat hair. Frankly I don't have cat hairs flying around a foot or more above the floor, either...

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This is supposed to filter the air on an Essick Air H-series console humidifier. In fact, it actually blocks the air to the unit and makes it much less efficient. It's an optional attachment to the unit and is completely unnecessary unless you live in a really filthy environment -- like maybe in a coal mine. Listen, we have three cats and I never saw any cat hair in the filter. The filter never got dirty. Does this tell you something?

I have always used these and thought I had one for this year's winter season. When I found I didn't, I was about to order one until I saw the price. WAAYYY too expensive for the purpose. I'm sure they do what they're supposed to, but what are they - solid platinum? I will listen to the reviewer who used a furnace filter and duct tape. I can't believe I ever used these unless they were much cheaper when I used them before.

Spend your twenty bucks on a replacement wick, this is ridiculous.