A Guide to Choosing an Air Purifier
A Guide to Choosing an Air Purifier
If you’re concerned about your general health, you should also be concerned about the air you breathe. The very air inside your home can become polluted if you don’t take care of it, and this can have a negative impact on your health and well-being.
Selecting the appropriate air purifier can be challenging. Numerous charts, research and certifications exist for air purifiers. It’s critical to evaluate all of the data and make sound judgments. This article from a cooling and heating services provider walks you through the process of selecting an air purifier.
What are Air Purifiers?
Air purifiers, in a nutshell, accomplish exactly what they claim to–they help to clean the air. When purifiers are turned on, they continuously cycle the air around them, eliminating pollutants and allergens before returning the filtered air to the room. The process is then repeated, with each pass making the air cleaner.
While most air purifiers perform the same basic functions, each brand has its own features. Carrier products are among the best brands available.
Quick Tips for Choosing an Air Purifier
- Decide where you want to put it so you can determine the proper size.
- Find an air purifier that can filter contaminants unique to your home or health issues.
- Check to see how well an air purifier filters specific contaminants using CADR ratings.
- Choose an indoor air purifier with a HEPA filter, which is the gold standard.
- Examine the product’s noise levels (in dB). You may need a quieter air purifier depending on where you use it.
- Calculate the air purifier’s ongoing maintenance and electricity costs.
- Unless you can afford it, avoid extras like app integration.
Features to Look for in Air Purifiers
In the following purchase guide, there are a few things you should think about before purchasing an air purifier, as suggested by a cooling services provider.
- HEPA: Make sure the air purifier has a multi-stage HEPA filter that’s been tested and certified to effectively trap dangerous pollutants that can cause major health problems.
- Anti-bacterial coating: Make sure the HEPA filter has a unique anti-bacterial coating to keep bacteria out of the air.
- Carbon filter: Check if the air purifier has a specially-treated carbon filter with a high-grade absorptive value for improved absorption of bad smells, cigarette smoke, dust, pet odor and other contaminants.
- Child lock: The child lock mechanism ensures that children can’t change the air purifier settings or injure themselves.
- Purifying capacity: Check the CADR to see if the air purifier can instantly purify the air in the room.
- Air quality monitoring: Determine whether the air purifier in the room has an air-quality monitoring system that adjusts the flow of clean air in response to the air quality.
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