Winix - D360 (Refurbished)

This one my office got during C-19, it does require a filter change every few months and you have to wear a mask and vaccum it out. https://www.winixamerica.com/product/d360-refurbished/?utm_source=Google%20Shopping&utm_campaign=Google%20Shopping%20Product%20Feed&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=371941&gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAADEtHWkeLeFXxnxIRM67Y2n0a3-Tr&gclid=Cj0KCQiA8q—BhDiARIsAP9tKI3Una5DyldYi-rWZGzNt6RM0nt3l1dA2zcI9fNDmSZ5ueNdT9bvpmAaAqpHEALw_wcB

It makes sense for air purifiers for the same reason it makes sense for face masks- you want the air to be purified in one go. The misconception that some people have is that air purifiers are supposed to reduce the concentration of particulate matter in the room and hence the highest CFM takes priority. In reality, the actual goal is to reduce the concentration of particulate matter that people breathe in, which sounds similar but has a different meaning. A non-HEPA purifier may theoretically succeed at the former, but it won't succeed at the latter; the mechanism of purifying the air through multiple passes with a weaker filter intrinsically means that particulate matter will be blown across the room and into the breathing space of someone before it can be purified. This why CDC/WHO and many other public health will generally recommend HEPA purifiers and suggest non-HEPA purifiers as a temporary measure for emergencies (I.e forest fires). Some good HEPA filter options are Winix, Smart Air, and Jafanda.

Winix D360 is good and should cover 300 square feet. 

Winix D360/D480 explicitly don’t have an ionizer and work well, I have similar standards as yours and it works well for me. You can get 2 D360s for 300 dollars which would be a bit below 5 ACH or get a D360 and a D480 for 360 bucks which would be above 5 ACH.

Thanks. I did :) Seems like a good deal. I woke up at like 5am and was googling. I was debating getting the winix C610 at Costco for $130 bc of Costco’s return policy, but that one is a cylinder and I read cylinder shape might affect air purifier effectiveness.

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Winix-D360-True-HEPA-3-Stage-Air-Purifier-AHAM-Verified-for-360-sq-ft-1022-0222-02/315963585 But it was weird bc it had changed to $99 for sec before I went but I think it was bc I had it set to delivery, but in store it was $74

We purchased a new oven range a month ago and I’m worried about VOC’s because we have a 9 month old baby. We did the initial “burn off” without baby in the house and then ventilated for a few hours. However I feel like I still smell a subtle daily lingering plastic smell. I definitely smell it a little if I use the stove burners, but even when the unit isn’t in use I feel like I smell something subtle. I haven’t even used the oven part since the initial burn off because I’m paranoid about VOCs. Daily I run two air purifiers around the kitchen area, a winix d360 and a Levoit 200S. I also open windows (which are right next to the oven) every morning and keep them open during the day. What else can I do to protect my baby from anything harmful coming from this new unit? I was thinking of getting a VOC monitor but saw that they mostly show relative values. So they wouldn’t tell me if the VOC level is objectively high/unsafe in our house on a daily basis, right? Or would a monitor be helpful? Thank you!!

I have some Winix models. I’ve been looking at the Austin air. Would it be worth it to upgrade or no?

Hello, thank you, you are goated and I love you. My relative picked up the Winix D360 as it was the only thing in stock nearby and it was a same-day needed situation. I would love to know your thoughts on this model, it seems to me the C909 is more powerful and rated for larger rooms, though not sure how much of a difference it is between D360 and C909 for the 1560 cu ft room I mentioned. I’m still researching for the U-shaped larger space in this apartment, could 2 C909s or 1 D360 and 1 C909 be a potential solution? Or something else? Thank you so much for your advice.

There's also the Winix D360/480 series as a Home Depot exclusive, which doesn't have ionizers and has a pretty high CADR rate. I don't think there are after-market filters but Winix said they continue to manufacture filters for 10 years after so maybe you won't have problems. I'm eyeing it. Honestly my first air purifier was BlueAir and I loved it. Dead silent on the first setting (I think having a vertical fan helps), and I could run it on the high setting all day. I have birds and had no idea about the ionizer though. I've gone through one Honeywell which made my room smell like a plastic pool toy, and I'm not so happy with the return-replacement either, I ran it on turbo today and got a pretty big headache and felt like I was having trouble breathing, which sounds insane but it stopped when I turned it off. I'm almost tempted to just go get another BlueAir and remove the ionizer manually, but I also know that their CADRs are based off of ionizer on, and the larger sizes have significantly more expensive filters.

Any filter with a charcoal filter layer will help some (Winix is one brand commonly available at Costco…I also have a more elaborate Rowenta)…my Winix came with multiple charcoal layer replacements. Dealing with total incontinence here, and not to criticize your MILs efforts, but you might want to look into the actual sources of the odors. Chairs, clothes that sit around waiting for wash, previously soaked furniture or carpet? If bedding or fabric furniture smells and you can replace it, do so. I use a combo of Depends on my father, and all his sleeping or seating surfaces have a first layer of puppy pee pads (Costco has large ones that work well and are cheap), and then a fabric layer on top (whether sheets or a chair cover or towel, tucked into the sides of the chair). Once he’s wet, after I changes his pants all clothes and chair covers and bedding goes in the wash (3-5 loads a day).  For the mattress you can find on Amazon washable mattress covers (the whole bed ones don’t work that well but that’s my base layer and then a thicker more absorbent one that I fit across the middle section of his bed, and on top of that layered dog pee pads).  So again, not sure if any of this advice helps but this method works for me.

Both of my Winix air purifiers started smelling like smoke, they are different models, cleaned weekly and filters changed regularly, I don’t recommend them.

you can't beat the physics. what you want is the big size as prioirty thing to look for first. then you can look into other things but the size of purifier(filter) has biggest impact. winix is solid imo for basiaclly 99% of the use case.

Winix seems to be the play here. I have two and they seem to work and are common enough for filters to be inexpensive. The prefilter is easy to clean. I did recently have a DOA unit but the replacement was easy through Amazon.