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I wonder how that compares just to some baggies with activated carbon.
by dinvlad 4y ago
I wonder how that compares just to some baggies with activated carbon.
- jrockway 4y agoGet a fan and a furnace filter and you have a top-of-the-line air purifier.
- silisili 4y agoThey are generally cheap enough now that it's probably not worth the effort. I think my last 2 cost 35 a piece, and came with extra filters and such. I used to think they were kinda useless until I had tile ripped up. The neverending dust was driving my wife insane. On a whim, bought a couple purifiers and it's cut the dust down by at least 90%.
- thecoppinger 4y agoAny chance you could provide a link to an example product? Air purifiers seem pretty expensive, but I expect that might be due to my location
- silisili 4y agoI bought these for 34.99 last month, but it appears to be gone now. https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01N4IRIWK https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01N4IRIWK If you're looking for more features and a more known brand, Costco has these for 99, which is a pretty good deal considering their size and that they come with all extra filters. https://www.costco.com/winix-true-hepa-4-stage-air-purifier-with-wi-fi-and-additional-filter.product.100662892.html https://www.costco.com/winix-true-hepa-4-stage-air-purifier-...
- thecoppinger 4y agoPerfect, thank you very much.
- panarky 4y agoRule of thumb: cut the quoted theoretical capacity in half. This one's theoretical capacity is 360 square feet, so you'd need eight of them in a 1500 square foot apartment.
- silisili 4y agoNever heard of it. Perhaps for its Hepa, 99.9% jargon sure. But we ran a single Bissel Air400 in a 2k sq ft area and it visibly reduced the dust you see on glass cabinets and such. We used to have to clean them about every 3 days. With that running, it was about every 2 to 3 weeks!
- MengerSponge 4y agohttps://cleanaircrew.org/box-fan-filters/ https://cleanaircrew.org/box-fan-filters/
- googlryas 4y agoNot exactly. As I understand it furnace filters will just filter out particulate matter which is measured on the order of micron. It doesn't really do much for VOCs, which are measured on the order of picometers(0.2 microns = 200,000 picometers). You need another filter like activated charcoal which works differently than particulate filters (adsorption vs merely trapping particles in a winding path)
- jrockway 4y agoThe comment I'm replying to says "I wonder how a bag of charcoal would do". I assume you'd add that to my list of components.
- Dylan16807 4y agoVOCs are nanometer scale. A rough estimate for atomic bond length in organic compounds is .15 nanometers. CO2, which should be smaller than basically any VOC, is half a nanometer across.
- Sunspark 4y agoI used MERV 11 and still got tons of dust everywhere, and the ductwork is also musty smelling in the spring and fall.. prefer summer and winter because it's not as noticeable then.