* Your country of residence: USA (PNW)
* Each room or area's volume, in cubic feet or cubic meters. (You need at least one purifier per room or area.)
* Living room: approx 500 square feet
* Bedrooms: approx 200 square feet
* Your filtration needs: e.g., pollen, dust, cigarette smoke, VOCs, cooking odors.
* wildfire season and removal of odors including cigarette smoke and marijuana smoke from neighbors.
* Startup budget
* We are a single income family so while the budget is flexible a good deal is preferred :) Ideally under $300 for all even if that means 2 in the living room
* Yearly budget (electricity + filters).
* We pay about $150/m or $1,800 annually for our electric bill
We have a 500 square foot living room and probably 200 square feet bedrooms -- Thoughts on this one (one for living room and one for bedroom). We'd need the living room and 1 bedroom covered.
Purchasing air purifier for wildfire season and removal of odors including cigarette smoke and marijuana smoke from neighbors. We have AC in our apt.
Disclaimer: I have no issue with people smoking cigarettes or weed in their apt, despite a no smoking clause in our lease. However, my spouse has significant respiratory concerns and it's problematic for her.
[https://www.walmart.com/ip/Coway-Airmega-100-True-HEPA-Air-Purifier-with-Air-Quality-Monitoring-Auto-Mode-Sleep-Mode-Timer-Filter-Indicator-Night-Light/5396525514](https://www.walmart.com/ip/Coway-Airmega-100-True-HEPA-Air-Purifier-with-Air-Quality-Monitoring-Auto-Mode-Sleep-Mode-Timer-Filter-Indicator-Night-Light/5396525514)?
We eventually bought this Blue Aire in large-- probably not perfect but at half off ($300 total) -- it is what it is after all my research exhaustion. We will likely get a 2nd one at half off today.
[https://www.blueair.com/products/3in1-air-purifier-t20i-1](https://www.blueair.com/products/3in1-air-purifier-t20i-1)
I second Levoit, we have almost one in each room. And we also have a Blueair large room. Both are a smart device connected and man the amount of dust the pull is scary.
I also have a couple of BlueAir and the scheduling feature for smart purifiers is very nice to have. I have it set to run on the lowest fan setting all the time which is so quiet it's undetectable, and ramp it up for a few hours in the afternoon right before we get home from work.
Multi level approach works well.
- Decent filter you change more regularly for your HVAC (agree with others that MERV shouldn't be too high)
- Clean floors, if you have carpet get a deep carpet cleaning annually
- Room air filters. I've had luck with Blue Air. Have one jig one for living room and some small ones for the bedrooms.
- Have you tried using regular saline rinses for your nose? I use the powder saline mixes with the plastic applicator from NeilMed, but there are others out there. While my allergies are pretty mild, I haven't needed to take any allergy medicine at all since using these.
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