Is the air clean enough?
Allergens. Pollen. All the soot that fills the air when a random part of the forest/brush catches fire. They all have something in common - I don’t want to breathe them in.
I spent some time researching purifiers and ended up getting the Dyson TP04 - here it is on Amazon… It was between that and the Molekule - also on Amazon…
So much particulate matter - Unsplash
Look. The air was bad. But I didn’t want to spend $500+ on one of these without knowing for sure. So, I “convinced” a friend to buy one and test it out. Well, she got the Dyson and started raving about how amazing it was. She said a bunch of stuff, but it swayed my decision.
Let me tell you about this thing…
- App controlled (it also has a remote), so you can turn it off/on from anywhere in the world (yes, I’m aware… everything does this now).
- Continuously monitors air quality (PM 2.5, PM 10, NO2, Humidity, etc…) and displays it in a graph
- Has an “Auto” mode that keeps your air quality below a given threshold.
- It rotates (stop, I know) up to 350 °
- Quiet (though I bet this is subjective, so I should revise to “Quiet to me”)
- You can set schedules for on/off along with rotation and speed levels
Anyways, I was able to get the fire smell (along with the particulate matter) out of an 1100 sq ft room in about 10 minutes with this thing.
What about allergens
Yeah… surprisingly it does well with those, too. I got tired of typing, so here’s a decently credible article that seems to be saying the same things that I am - linky - summary: it’s expensive but it works.
I’m 90% convinced this thing is great, but the other 10% of me wants to get the Molekule and compare the two. I read this article and I’m a little more enticed to compare - curious if there’s a difference for me. Maybe I will? I’ll keep you posted.
Okay, enough of my rambling. To the seven people who will ever read this post, I really want to know:
- Do you have allergies?
- Does an air purifier help you?
- What air purifier did you get?
