HoneywellQuietSet Whole Room Tower Fan-Black, HYF290B

I’ve had this fan since 2020. I leave this fan on 24/7 and it’s still going. It’s easy to take apart for cleaning. The lower speeds are pretty quiet but the higher ones are louder but I don’t mind it, I kind of like the white noise while sleeping anyways. I like that it comes with a remote. There is a button on the fan that can dim/turn off the light, but there isn’t one on the remote (my only complaint) and the light comes back on every time you change speeds or turn it on. After 5 years I have noticed some slight rattling on occasion and some of the lower speeds have no difference now, but I keep it on somewhere in the middle and it stays on 24/7 in the hottest room in my house near the floor vent to help circulate the cool air. I would definitely recommend this fan.

This fan is so quiet. I got it to go in my bedroom at night to move the air around, so I wouldn’t have to use as much electricity for my air-conditioning. It was described as quiet, but very powerful. And it is exactly that. I sleep very cool and I am able to turn my air conditioning down so it’s almost off. You won’t go wrong with this Fan. Would highly recommend.

I was getting this ready for use and found two large cracks in the plastic base. I’m past my return window and have now contacted Honeywell. Hopefully I’ll have this running soon.Update; I have this running after glueing/duct taping the plastic base. It is quiet and works fine as long as you are close and it is aimed at you.Thank you.

a little louder than I'd like but good.

We purchased this in 2018..And its still working.Our home is old with no central air or heating.And this item serves us well.

Why did you pick this product vs others?:sister in law has one - we liked hers

Another Edit:I have since got another fan from another company called "Dreo", which are right here on Amazon. Now that fan was quiet. Way more quiet then any of these Quietset fans I got.. the first or the replacements. So my suggestion, skip honeywell and go look at the Dreo tower fans. Much better.**Update to My Original Review that is below**So I changed my star Rating for the fan from 2 Stars Down to 1. Honeywell, as a company, has been good at sending replacements and working with me, however, they can't seem to get me a model of this fan that actually works as it should. The first replacement had a loud buzz to it, the second replacent had a bad rumble to it, and now the third replacement, which I received today, is quieter, however in 3 out of the 8 modes available, there is this big vibrating rumble you can feel in the floor, and hear. Very Annoying. The motor is still loud even in sleep mode, although this is the first one I can almost deal with the noise the motor makes.Do yourself a favor -- skip this fan.A good warranty is good, but its useless if the model sucks so bad that everytime they send you one it has a problem with it.** End of Edit **Short / Quick version:Pros: Looks great, Slim, lightweight, Remote Control responds well, a decent amount of air, easy to put together, Honeywell has awesome (if not slow) customer service!Cons: -- Dealbreaker for me: Annoying motor noise cancels out any quietness you get -- the questionable build quality of base you put togetherLong Version:I ordered this fan due to recommendations for it on almost every page I looked up fans on. I was looking for a quiet and cool setting to watch tv with it and to sleep with a quieter fan. I had an older Honeywell tower fan which is awesome, minus the top panel stopped working and you have to use the remote, it's still useful to this day. It was just noisy, and I lost a lot of features with that top panel of buttons not working. So I figured it's time for an upgrade, and with all those recommendations and the luck I had with this other Honeywell I have had for many many years, I got this fan.- The initial hookup and impression -After receiving one fan that was broken, I got this one and it seemed in good shape. I set it up, which was easy. The base is a little worrisome on build quality, but if you are careful snapping it together, it shouldn't be an issue. Then I plugged it in and turned it on. This was when the disappointment started.- Quiet (Or not?) -The sleep mode had very little air noise. Great. However, there is this annoying vibration motor buzzing noise that makes up for it. All I heard was BUUUZUUZUZUUZUZUZUZUZUUUUZUZUZUZUZUZU (yeah, like that). It drove me nuts. I'd rather have a noisy tower fan with lots of air noise. I turned it up to level 5, (which is called Relax), which is what I consider the first "power setting" and it sounded more like a normal fan then. However, after a few seconds, it starts this weird vibration noise again. THUMTHUMTHUMTHUMTHUM but make it like x100 faster than how you can say it with your mouth. Not as annoying, but still annoying. If I were to squeeze the fan with my hands, the noise would stop, which to me suggests a problem with something loose or a design issue with handling vibrations from the motor. I contacted Amazon, being annoyed because this was my second fan, and was graciously given a refund.- Feedback to Honeywell -Being very disappointed, I contacted Honeywell and conveyed my disappointment with this product.They responded by asking me a few questions and then to my surprise sent me a new one, no charge or anything. I have now received yet another one of these Fans, and guess what. IT STILL DOES THE SAME THING! So this has to be a design issue, or I'm the unluckiest person in the world when it comes to fans.Is it useful? Sure. Is it worthy of being called a Quietset? Not in my eyes. It may make less air noise than many other fans, but that motor vibration buzz sound is just too much for me.I can't say if this would be as annoying to you other customers or not, but it's definitely not as quiet as I was led to believe.- Performance and Design -The power is pretty good. People say it's weak, but in my moderate-sized bedroom, I think it does pretty well. If it wasn't for that noise, it would be perfect for me. The design itself though is pretty well done. It looks nice, and it's very skinny and lightweight. The LED on top isn't that bad, you can turn it way down via the button on the control panel and I didn't find it intrusive at night at all.So overall, if I could do it again, I wouldn't purchase this fan. It's just not worth it, especially for the price. The annoying vibration motor noise is just too much. So since I have it, I will make use of it in the noisy times of my residence in the noisiest of areas or at least with a lot of traffice, but for what I was looking for in my bedroom, it looks like I will have to look elsewhere.

its easy to put together, works well enough. Does the job of a fan well. The only problem with it is they have made it as difficult to clean as they possibly could. I believe this is on purpose, so instead of cleaning it you will throw it out and buy another fan. I had a similar fan from the same company for 10 years. It was extremely easy to clean, just pop the back off and pull the filter out. If you want to clean this one, not only do you have to unscrew and take apart the whole thing, you also have to use a special * shaped screwdriver. I find this highly annoying. And I see no reason for this other than they PURPOSELY made it as difficult as possible to clean. Shady. I've had it for a year now, and now its making awful grinding noises because it needs to be cleaned. But before I can clean it I have to get a special screwdriver to open it up.