How to Choose an Air Purifier – 10 Tips Buying Guide

Are you looking for an air purifier for your home? First, I’ll, let you into a secret most of the air purifiers on the market, underpowered and overpriced. I want to help you to avoid the thousands of Duds on Amazon to find a device that works. Since 2020, I’ve tested over 70 different air purifiers and performed in-house experiments looking at air cleaning performance, sound level generation and energy usage, and this is how I’ve uncovered 10 tips to help you choose the right air purifier for your home number, one Kar Karnow. Unlike most home appliances, the work of Anair purifier is hidden to the naked eye, which means that manufacturers can say all sorts of rubbish to get you to choose their product over a competitor.

The good news is that the association of Home Appliance manufacturers have a Kadar test short for clean air delivery rate and this evaluates air purifiers at removing dust pollen and smoke and the score ranges from 0 to 400 C’mon as a very rough approximation for small space sup to a maximum of 200 squab ft. You need at least150 CFM for medium sized spaces, you’re looking at260 CFM and for very large spaces. You’re looking for, 300 CFM and over very large spaces will need very large Kar. For example, you might look at the smart blast, which has a massive Kar of 559 CFM alternatively. You could use multiple devices together, just add their Kar scores together. The energy star website has a great directory. Where you can search and see the car scores for most air purifiers.

Two bigger is generally better while.

It’s a good rule of throb to match the carto your room size. In most cases you want to get the biggest device. You can live with the reason is that Kos scores are made at the highest fan speed and for many devices. That’s just too loud for most people to deal with. They can be upwards of 65 DB with larger devices. You can run them at the lower fan speeds, and they can still clean a lot of air without generating too much noise.

Another benefit of a bigger device is they often have similar only very little extra-running costs as the filters. Don’t need to be changed so often three don’t trust, room, size recommendations. If you go on Amazon today, you’ll see many air purifiers Giv specifications for room size of 1,00, 1200 1300ft for small little cheap air, purifiers and you might. Think that you should get one of these small devices and it’ll be fine for your large space Butin reality they are using a marketing trick because they’re, giving the room size for just one air change per hour and there, not breaking any rurales and there’s no rules against doing that. Butin reality you need much more than that.

The Praenomen’s you get at least 4.8 air changes. And this really reduces the room size, recommendations that you’ll, see so as a good rule is use the energy, star directory to look at the room sizes there, as well as our site at house. Fresh cuz we always give the room sizes for 4.8 air changes four. Look for models that have a removable pre-filter. All types of air purifiers will use a pre-filter which protects ports. The main filters from being used op and also means that larger particles are stopped before going into the device. But you need to keep on top of keeping it clean.

Now some devices have pre- filters that are attached, tithe filter and it’s just tricky to keep on topo it it’s much better to choose a device that has, a removable, pre filter that you can take out of the device without removing the main filter, and you can keep it clean regularly. Intest, we saw that a dirty pre-filter can reduce Effectiveness by 40 %. Now, if you can’t remember the last time, you cleaned your pre-filter give it clean. Now, your lungs will.

Thank you. Five don’t worry too much about activated carbon.

The particle filter often her. In many cases, do the bulk of the work for most people. So, unless you have a serious issue with gases, vows and odors then you don’t need to worry too much about getting a large, activated carbon filter. Now you will notice that many air purifiers do have a carbon filter but. Many just have such small amounts of carbon that. It just won’t be useful in cases where you have serious issues.

Now, if you, you have serious issues with vows and odors such as smoking, from neighbors next door, you’ll likely want to look at specialist devices like the Austin air HealthMate that has 15 lb of carbon or the Isair HealthPro, Plus that has5 L of carbon, but be aware these devices cost a Lot to buy to run and the filters cost a ton. So, if you don’t need it don’t worry too much about the carbon, the cheapest air purifier, that has a good amount of carbon would-be, the Wini 55002. It has a separate washable carbon filter that you can wash and get more life out of it, and it’s good considering the price butut still won’t be enough to deal with very serious issues with odors and gases, carbon filters will reduce the particle efficiency of your device. Soif, you don’t need the carbon filter, try running it without Smart hair.

Does this really well where all? Their units will only come with particle filters as standard and you choose to get the carbon filter, whereas devices like Levit wherreted bond, the carbon filter with the particle filter means you have no choice. You have to run the filter with both the particle and the carbon. Six HEPA is not a requirement for a good air purifier. Hepa is just a grade of filter that measures, how much small particles are blocked-in first past filtration, but air purifiers will have, multiple places of air. So, it’s not such a good thing to look at now.

We’ve seen this yourself with Lavoy, where we’ve now found out thither, don’t use Hep grade filters, yet they perform very well and removing tiny particles from there. The same is true with the Corsi Rosenthalbox or the Nikit Tempest Di devices that use MF 13non Hepper grade. Yet they perform as well or even more effectively than many devices that use HEPA grade, don’t get caught up with the Hep grade, used look for Kar.

Seven, don’t forget about noise, levels there’s, no point in air purifier being great at cleaning, the air. If it sounds like a turbine device like an air, purifier is going to be needed to run continuously, so you want to make sure that it’s not so loud. That’s going to put you off doing it. Many devices that are too loud are just going to be switched off and never used now be wary of Manufacturers cuz. They will often State the lowest fan, speed sound level instead of the highest fan speed. Now some of the quietest air purifiers we’ve come across are from Brandlike Allen.

Smart air and we’ve also been super impressed by this new pc fan, DIY kits, like the new kit Tempest where they use PC fans to push air through a device and clean the air, but without generating massive amounts of noise. So, before you decide on a device make sure you know exactly how much sound, it’s going to generate at the fan, speed you want to run it at eight decide. If you wanton, ionizer ionizers have a bad reputation. After companies in the early 2000s push these device son consumers like The Sharper Image Ionic Breeze which.

Then we found out that caused high levels of ozone and vows. Now there was a change in the law in 2010 and carb certification came in places, modern ionizers. Don’t lead to these buildups, however. They can lead to dust buildup around the device and some house. Fresh readers have let me know that it can irritate their respiratory issues. Now, if you do want to go down the path of getting, an ionizer sticks of brands that have Itas a button that you can press on and off. Alewine copay all have this and avoid Brands likelier where the ionizer is integrated as part of the process. So, you can’t disable it. Nine you might not need those smart features.

Now modern air purifiers come with a ton of bells and whistles with onboard sensors app support schedule in you name it, but for many situations you might not need it, for example, dealing with Wildfire smoke allergies or outdoor pollution. You’re going to want to just use your air purifier at the highest-level that you can deal with from a sound point of view and just let it run so only these extras are not required, and you can often find devices that.

Don’t have these smart features for less money and are less likely to have issues in the future 10. Stick to brands that have been around awhile. If you don’t want to go down, the DIY route good rule of thumb is to stick to brands. That are well known many Brands like Iqra, smart Arlevia, Cowey, Wini they’ve been around for many years, and you can be sure that they have a lot to lose if their products don’t live up. Tithe hype in 2020, loads of new companies, enter the air purifier market and in our testing the mainly, had underpowered and overpriced devices and. The real bad side of these new brands is that if.

They go B and they go out of business.

You won’t be able to find filters, or even access warranties for devices that break so it’s much less risky togo for brands that are well known. I hope these tips have helped you to find the right air purifier for your home. If you want to know which specific models, we really like then check out our best air purifier for 2024 I’ll make sure to link it at the top. As always, if you have any questions about the tips, I’ve shared or even have any tips to share yourself. Let me know in the comments.

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