CleanAirKits - Brisk Box
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"Does a great job. ... it really works."
"It's really effective for larger sq footage rooms"
"You want something genuinely good and cheap? Make a Corsi-Rosenthal Box or two."
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"Efficiency - because the filters are more efficient, it requires less energy to pull air through them. ... PC fans use DC motors, which use 1/10 of the energy and are much quieter than AC motors. ... They're also are engineered to be virtually silent. ... To get the same amount of air cleaning power one unit achieved with my winix 5200-2 I'd have to run it at turbo mode and it's just way too loud. Plus the corsi rose thal box built with pc fans pulled 8 watts vs the winix pulling about 60 at turbo. My electricity rates in CA are super expensive and it saves hundreds of dollars a year in energy and filter costs to go with a Corsi Rosenthal box."
"PC fans and Box fans are made by dozens of different brands and can be purchased anywhere - Walmart, Amazon, Home Depot etc. ... HVAC filters are cheap, efficient, and abundant. ... These purifiers do not lock you into one brand and all parts are user replaceable. ... Since the whole system is made from replaceable parts, you won't ever have to throw it all away just because a model got discontinued or a brand went out of business."
"I'm using the CR boxes, and I'm very happy with them, especially since it cost me less than $200 to make three huge ones, and I assume the filters will last years."
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"I got one from clean air kits that uses computer fans and it's super quiet so you can sleep with it on."
"Efficiency - because the filters are more efficient, it requires less energy to pull air through them. ... PC fans use DC motors, which use 1/10 of the energy and are much quieter than AC motors. ... They're also are engineered to be virtually silent. ... To get the same amount of air cleaning power one unit achieved with my winix 5200-2 I'd have to run it at turbo mode and it's just way too loud. Plus the corsi rose thal box built with pc fans pulled 8 watts vs the winix pulling about 60 at turbo. My electricity rates in CA are super expensive and it saves hundreds of dollars a year in energy and filter costs to go with a Corsi Rosenthal box."
"If you look at cost, CADR/CFM, and noise, nothing on the market beats [Clean Air Kits], period."
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"If you look at cost, CADR/CFM, and noise, nothing on the market beats [Clean Air Kits], period."
"If you look at cost, CADR/CFM, and noise, nothing on the market beats [Clean Air Kits], period."
"If you look at cost, CADR/CFM, and noise, nothing on the market beats [Clean Air Kits], period."
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"PC fans and Box fans are made by dozens of different brands and can be purchased anywhere - Walmart, Amazon, Home Depot etc. ... HVAC filters are cheap, efficient, and abundant. ... These purifiers do not lock you into one brand and all parts are user replaceable. ... Since the whole system is made from replaceable parts, you won't ever have to throw it all away just because a model got discontinued or a brand went out of business."
"The box fan was $20 and the filters are $40 every couple of months. ... They're inexpensive"
"It's simply several MIRV-13 furnace filters taped to a cheap fan."
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"The 4 fan one is good for a small room."
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"you need to be able to build and rebuild them"
necheffa 0.7I got a basic brisk box 6 months ago using 3M 1900 filters on it. Placed it in the room with cat litter boxes and it made a huge impact on the amount of dust. Other units I tried have struggled to keep up. Highly recommend clean air kits.
PurpleFairy11 0.7Corsi Rosenthal boxes have good CADR. They're DIY box fan air purifiers. Plenty of YouTube tutorials if you ever wanted to try your hand at it.
If the room is only 100 SQ ft, one air should be enough. Depending on your budget, Clean Air Kits has quiet air purifiers. Their Brisk Box would work well. They're pretty pricy though. Another option is the Levoit Vital 200s. It's rated for a larger room (390 SQ ft) but you could run it at a lower and quieter speed and get good air cleaning.[Vital 200s Review](https://housefresh.com/levoit-vital-200s-review/) Right now my daily mask is the BNX boat style N95. For a while I was wearing Kleenguard duckbill N95. I can reuse the BNX masks but generally I don't after an 8 hour day. I'm starting to reuse my masks a bit more- wearing them twice before tossing. Most of my work day is in my office solo with the air purifiers running. Today I was in a fairly crowded room wearing my mask for the second time. I tossed the mask once home. Probably would have been better to wear a fresh mask to an event I knew would have a lot of people. I didn't have any extra masks on hand. I had a box of extra masks at work but recently ran out.
Wandering_Oblivious 0.7This right here. I have one of these in my apartment and am planning on getting a second one. Easy to replace fans, easy to replace filters, it's just best option.
JacqueTeruhl 0.3Check out cleanairkits.com. Their luggables look sharp and fit the criteria. But they have slightly louder fans than their Bris box design the bros box isn’t as attractive. No other manufacturer will move the same amount of air at the decibel of these units. But there is no speed setting, they’re just quiet. Every other purifier will clean less air or be louder and you’ll have to turn down the fan speed.
You need a couple corsi rosenthal boxes. Each one will run you about $90 in today's prices. They perform as well as a $1000 air purifier for 1/11th the price. r/CRBoxes can help. [https://youtu.be/hIuH-2naozI?si=xNUdt\_djOjXdJKja](https://youtu.be/hIuH-2naozI?si=xNUdt_djOjXdJKja)
ketamarine 0.3Unfortunately that website has been completely taken over by affiliate link BS. 95% of air purifiers sold online are complete garbage. Have tried many over the last 15 years due to asthma and allergies. The only cost effective solution I found that actually works (have an air things air quality monitor so I can tell by turning on and off air purifiers) is a box using home furnace fan filters. I got one from clean air kits that uses computer fans and it's super quiet so you can sleep with it on. Mine is 4x 20*25" filters. You can make your own with box fans but they will be crazy loud. The 4 fan one is good for a small room. https://www.cleanairkits.com/?ref=ANNALE&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=22709004639&gbraid=0AAAAA_ODbriF_jyz8Gjm983QOPyONyoIt&gclid=CjwKCAjwt-_FBhBzEiwA7QEqyI5KZ5R9_7eGZZIs3i8JuZzTyN3fsBU8lDCdZe9VxwvN-gMl4hPouhoCCpMQAvD_BwE And you don't need the most expensive filters either, in fact they work better with the mid range ratings as they have way more airflow. Mine are 10s or 11s I think...
jaydocovid 0.2If you look at cost, CADR/CFM, and noise, nothing on the market beats [Clean Air Kits](https://www.cleanairkits.com/?ref=CCCircle), period. Data to back it up, any entry in gray is a setting that is louder than 50db: [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kQMWNyKfkB0K8A4\_yXMrSAb-CruVl9lASJEpLGLtS8o/edit?usp=sharing](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kQMWNyKfkB0K8A4_yXMrSAb-CruVl9lASJEpLGLtS8o/edit?usp=sharing)
ardilla_rara 0.2I have several air purifiers and my favourite is a PC fan air purifier from North Box. There are various ones on the market but [North Box is Canadian](https://aidankepo.wixsite.com/northboxsystems). It's available directly from their site or through [Donate A Mask](https://shop.evidencebased.ca/collections/cr-boxes-air-purification). What's nice about PC fan air purifiers is that they're really quiet, quite effective and don't rely on proprietary air filters.
As u/ZedZabeth mentioned, making a Corsi Rosenthal box is a good idea. If you can afford it, a PC fan air purifier uses very little energy, is quiet and takes up less space than a classic CR box. If money is really tight, a respirator mask is probably the easiest, most accessible and cheapest solution. I know the prospect of masking at home is unappealing, but even masking from time to time indoors will lower your exposure.
CartographerLong5796 0.2That is actually completely false. There are several Corsi-Rosenthal Box builds that operate well under 45 dB while maintaining impressive CADR (Clean Air Delivery Rate). Here are a few examples : * the Honeywell Build (via David Elfstrom): Using a Honeywell HF910 with 3M 1900 filters on speed 1, you get 422 CFM (Dust CADR) at 45 dBA. * The Rob Wissman Build: using 4x 3M 2200 filters and 9x Arctic P14 fans. It hits 556 CFM (Dust CADR) at 44.5 dBA. * The Tempest (Commercial/DIY Hybrid): Running P14 fans at an 8V voltage control setting with 2x AAF Flanders MERV 13 filters, I personally tested this at 184 CFM and only 33 dB (in a 30 dBA background that goes on 34,8 dBA) . Dust CADR 183,9 cfm
daniel940 0.1I'm using the CR boxes, and I'm very happy with them, especially since it cost me less than $200 to make three huge ones, and I assume the filters will last years.
EquivalentPace88 0.1You can make a Corsi Rosenthal air filter. Check out the instructions on youtube. They work as well as industrial air filters.
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