I have a levoit LV-H128 beside my bed. Very quiet on low setting. Inaudible. Can add essential oils. I’m convinced it makes a difference to air quality in the room.
I have a small Levoit exactly like the one on your photo in our small room that has the litter box in my 3-D printer. Every other level of the house has one of the Levoit larger round cylindrical ones. We’re very happy with them, air quality in the house looks pretty good based on two separate sensor gadgets we use.
Levoits are awesome. You’ll be changing the filter on that one pretty quickly. If you really have that much hair floating around, you might want to consider one of their 400 models.
I can second this suggestion- it's a great model!!
I'm not confident the air is going to mix down a very long hall to the kitchen by itself (regardless of the cadr of the purifier). If you had the stovetop exhaust fan on pulling air through, or just a regular fan somewhere on low, that might get air moving in from the hall, into the kitchen, so the purifier could pull it through.
Re: bathroom- it's my understanding humidity isn't good for HEPA filters and that there's a usage range, but I've operated small ones on bathroom countertops okay. I don't live in a humid area, and my bathroom does not get super steamy. I used the smaller levoit, and a small medify model. (Sorry don't recall model #s).
If that price works for OP, I highly recommend. Also have this model, for years.
Bonus, I am very sound sensitive, and this model is both quiet on the low setting, and it does not have a weird tone, pitch, pulse or hum to the sound (like i have found with levoit, or others). Very non offensive.
Air purifiers work remarkably well.
We have a cat and dog and I sometimes suffer a bit with cat hair giving me a persistent sickly cough. I bought a small Levoit air purifier for the bedroom and was amazed at how much better I slept at night. I ended up buying a larger whole house air purifier, (same brand). On a normal setting they run silently and barely use any energy. Not sure about other brands but the Levoit purifiers have reusable filters which you just take out and vacuum clean every week or so.
I'd buy one if the single room air purifiers and see if it makes a difference. As far as visiting other people's homes, there's not much you can do about it.
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