Alrighty guys and gals, I am looking for a good air purifier that doesn't cost more than $100 (before taxes), I need it mostly for filtering cigarette smoke and dust from the air...
Speak from experience and so forth, would also like it even more if it didn't use replaceable filters...
ATM I am looking at "Ionic Pro Combo Air Purifier Plus Bonus Car Air Purifier" but from what I read a large majority are defective /:
Come help meh babeh!
[ August 31, 2011, 05:56 PM: Message edited by: Rawrain ]
Posted by Stone_Wolf_ (Member # 8299) on :
Forgive me for butting in, but I suggest instead of buying an air purifier, that you quit smoking. It is not good for the baby. My wife and I smoked...and then she got preggo with our son, and we both quit. When you are doing it for your children it is much much easier.
Posted by MattP (Member # 10495) on :
I doubt the low-end ionizers work at all, and I'm note even all that confident in the higher-end consumer models. Your best bet is probably a traditional HEPA filter.
Posted by Rawrain (Member # 12414) on :
Wolf I don't smoke, neither does my girlfriend... If I DID I would've stopped for the sake of my child..
It's my grandmother who won't stop, she likes to pretend she cares, but in the end she just sits in her room chain smoking, and for the time being I cannot move out, so I need a filter to compensate for her rude bullshit trying to hurt my kid inattentively....
I've got asthma from my families years of smoking around me, I don't want my kid to have this problem >.> help me find a good filter/purifier!
Posted by Stone_Wolf_ (Member # 8299) on :
See that's what I get for assuming...sorry.
Posted by Rawrain (Member # 12414) on :
How about this for a small room :o looks cool doesn't cost all that much and uses a hepa filter + other things ....
Posted by Mucus (Member # 9735) on :
Apparently, my father used to smoke before I was born. However, the dog would move away and cough a lot when he smoked, so he felt guilty and started smoking outside. Then the Canadian winter came and he stopped.
The other option is not to filter the air, but to stop the movement of the cigarette smoke. Perhaps by installing an airlock or creating a partial vacuum in your grandmother's room.
Posted by Rawrain (Member # 12414) on :
._. just putting a filter in my bedroom/babyroom would satisfy me enough, as it would be near impossible to make a vacuum in a bedroom that has the AC right next to it...
You could also just vent the grandmother directly into space once you've got the airlock installed.
Hepa filters are nice because they, you know, actually work. The ionic filtration devices are neat and small and quiet and do nothing but release ozone into the air. More than a constantly running photocopier, even. And ozone is a pollutant and an irritant. They are not real air filters. I actually qualify them as a scam.
Posted by Rawrain (Member # 12414) on :
The penguin air filter thing uses a HEPA filter and a few other filters in it :o
Posted by DSH (Member # 741) on :
It was a worthless piece of junk. I don't think it filtered a single thing out of the air. If I needed an air purifier again, I'd get something with HEPA filters.
Posted by Alucard... (Member # 4924) on :
A prominent allergist once told me that for air purifiers to actually be effective, you would literally need one in every room. However, that was for eliminating allergins.
That being said, I too would lean towards one that uses a HEPA filter, because even if you only install one in your room, you are actually getting a benefit from filtering the air in that room with an effective and proven technology...