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1.0 out of 5 starsJUNK -- SPEND YOUR MONEY ELSEWHERE
Reviewed in the United States on August 8, 2021
UPDATE: DO NOT BUY!! I bought this machine two years ago (July 2021) but only used it for six weeks the first year and less than four months the second year. I religiously carried this thing to my shower to descale the tank and filter every week during use, and completely cleaned the unit before storing it (covered, indoors) in the fall. This year, when I plugged it into my new office, it worked fine for two weeks -- before causing a catastrophic flood that took out thousands of dollars in carpet, furniture and drywall within an hour. The automatic float can not be trusted. The cheap plastic housing can not be trusted. If you choose to invest in this machine, do so knowing it's manufactured to be disposable.
Got this for a partially enclosed condo patio (aka my office) in Las Vegas, where it’s currently 108 degrees. It works. (Reasonably, it works best when the outside temp is under 103 degrees, but I’ll take any relief I can get.)
The fact that you can actually hook it up to a hose is brilliant because it holds five gallons of water…and between running the evaporative cooler plus plain old evaporation from heat, the water tank needs to be fully refilled at least three times a day here. Unfortunately I’m having to schlep a recycled Arizona Tea jug back and forth to the kitchen faucet 15 times every day in this hellish heat, even though I turn the machine off when I step away for more than five minutes.
Regardless of how you fill the tank, make sure to add a liquid antibacterial humidifier treatment system like BestAir.
The unit takes up quite a bit of real estate but has a reasonably long cord and the castors roll smoothly, even on carpeting. The six individual fins can each be adjusted manually (VERY carefully!) so the dog snoozing under my desk benefits as much as I do. When things cool down here in a few months, it can also be used as just a fan.
I’m deducting two stars because this Hessaire is very loud and getting louder by the day. I can’t have it on during zoom meetings, calls that require using the speaker on my phone, or even when my soft spoken daughter comes to visit. You might not have that issue in a larger space, as mine is only 6.5’ x 10’.
This unit is also made very cheaply. Within about 15 minutes of my sweet three year old grandson arriving, he’d snapped off the little handle screw covers, the tank filling hatch, and one of the fins. He’s not even a wild child. This unit is just trimmed out with disappointingly thin, brittle plastic. And now, it’s sporting a new tank hatch, crafted from part of an old plastic cutting board and a very large bandaid, lol.
