Air purifiers

why would they be dangerous?

So, I figure a bigger ionizer might be of some source of electrical danger.. that's all.

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Well, you don't hear lots of stories about water heaters going bad, but they're apparently dangerous business too. and they're far more common.

i barely used it anyway and never could tell if it made a difference; i only remember that if you turned it up high in a closed room after awhile the room would smell...chlorinated.

Anyhow, I'd recommend it.

(By the way, the PlasmaCluster is great at pulling out things that cause allergic reactions, too, and is supposed to suck the life out of small living particles like bacteria because it works by splitting water atoms up, and when it does it essentially sucks all of the water out of the greeblies. This is what it says in the literature, anyhow.)

http://www.venta-airwasher.com

The claim:  "No fans, no filters, no fuss and no noise." According to the ad, this air purifier removes pollen and animal dander from the air. It also eliminates smoke and offensive odors.
Reality check:  Yes, it's silent. Yes, it's easy to clean. But in our tests, Ionic Breeze didn't get rid of much smoke, dust or pollen. It's much less effective than conventional HEPA air cleaners.
Bottom line:  Save your money. You can't rely on this product to clean the air in your home.

if you want something to really clean your house, though, I highly recommend the Dyson Animal vacuum cleaner. That thing literally sucks the London black bogeys from your nose at fifty paces.

Sean, you've sold me.

Started having pronounced allergic reactions, red eyes in the morning, nagging cough, etc. Vacuuming and cleaning like crazy, no difference. Two months of rain for spring kept the windows closed in my bedroom for most of five months. Two weeks ago, sun comes out, windows open -- and bam, tears like waterfalls and coughing up green every morning. Then, one week ago, massive coughing attack leading to an entire weekend of laryngitis. So, more cleaning, deeper than ever, airmask on, scouring the windows, especially this weird black stuff buried deep in the frames, leave the windows open and the fan on to air out the room while I go get a late dinner... only then the light bulb goes on... seven weeks of nonstop rain in SF >>> that stuff around the windows was black mold and I've just atomized and ventilated it through the room.

so I go back with bleach and redo the windows, revacuum, rewash the sheets... then take a (idiotic) gamble and go to bed. wake up three hours later coughing with light fever. the fever fades ten minutes after leaving, but the room is now uninhabitable. that was two days ago, it hasn't changed.

the window frames are metal, and I didn't find any mold growing on wood. this is great, great news. I need an air purifier that can handle mold that isn't that worthless looking Ionic Breeze -- I'm looking online, but if anyone has any recommendations, I am all ears. (The Venta looks _great_ -- if I can find one for sale today, I just might)

Getting coffee this morning I was filling in barista friend, and the person in line behind me said 'I just found mold in my room last week for the first time'. So sounding the alarm if anyone else's allergies are acting particularly severe.

anyway, as a combined birthday/xmas gift, my rich aunt bought me one of these:

http://www.healthpurifiers.com/product/J-100-00-01M.html

From all the research I had done...this is like, the ONLY one. Do I notice a huge difference? Well, it my apt smells better. Maybe I sleep better? To be honest I can't really tell. But I keep it running 24/7. The filter is changed once every 5 years or so, and the only maintenance is you get a vacuum with a brush attachment and just vacuum the outside, which picks up all the big bits trapped by the filter. Something I don't do nearly enough.

All those Ionic Breeze, the sharper image things, the oreck or whatever advertised on tv, are all supposed to be worthless.

also...you're response may not be just about the mold but the pollen outside after the rain stopped. I mean, I'm better when I'm inside, it's when I go outside that it gets worse.

thanks for the recommendations, this is very disorienting

API: 438

Severe 201 to 500
Air quality significantly worse than both short-term and long-term AQOs. People with existing heart or respiratory illnesses may experience significant aggravation of their symptoms and there will be also widespread symptoms in the healthy population. These include eye irritation, wheezing, coughing, phlegm and sore throat.