Air Purifers
The prior owners were heavy smokers and that lingered throughout the house. Since we moved in in the winter months, we weren’t able to have our windows open and the absence of clean air would cause us to get sore throats and stuffy noses during the night. So we looked into buying a air purifier.
Requiring some relief, we decided to invest some cash in the Holmes HEPA air scrubber. We figured the purifier, which cost about $40, would fit on our dresser and with a little bit of luck clean some of the smoke out of the room. What we found, is it worked better than we expected. The first night we had the Holmes air filter, we turned it on around an hour before we went to bed. And, by the time we were in bed, we were already spotting a big difference in the room. It took us a little while to become used to the noise coming from the purifier but , once we did, we both had the best night’s sleep we have had in a while.
The Holmes air cleaner draws in air from the room and runs it thru the filter, cleaning out any dust, mould, etc. We ran the purifier all winter and it kept our room smelling fresh until it warmed up enough for us to open our windows and air the room out utterly. While I am often satisfied with the Holmes air filter, I will admit there are some things I’d change about it.
The ionizers in the air filter emit both certainly and negatively charged ozone ions within an acceptable level for humans. With the powerful oxidizing agent like ozone produced, it destroys particles and inactivates the microbes by a natural chemical process. Most airborne particles, including bacteria, viruses, mould spores, fungi, cigarette particles, gases and other odors get wiped out using this technique. Plasmacluster ions air filters are based mostly on the plasma discharge technology. An alternating plasma discharge is used to split water molecules into oppositely charged hydrogen and oxygen ions. Alternate emission of plasma disunite water molecules into oppositely charged oxygen and hydrogen ions. Air contaminants draw these electrically charged hydrogen and oxygen ions. These ions, together with air pollutants form hydroxyl radicals, which further result in the annihilation of the pollutants. It is an effective technology for destroying airborne biological, chemical pollutants, and other pollutants.
One other thing I noticed about our room when we were running the Holmes air cleanser was, even though the air was surely cleaner, it seemed to be drier too. Whenever we run it for a serious time period, I will nearly always wake up in the middle of the night with a nose bleed. I actually had to start running a humidifier at the same time to fix this problem. Please visit my facebook login page for further content.