HEPA Room Air Cleaners
Posted by Mike Krause at 11/12/2008 4:32 PM 
Categories: Allergies
Tags: air cleaner ahustin air healthmate air purification airpura hepa air cleaners
Categories: Allergies
Tags: air cleaner ahustin air healthmate air purification airpura hepa air cleaners
We get asked every so often why we only carry Austin Air Healthmate and Airpura HEPA air cleaners. The answer is very simple. They work. You turn them on and they suck in the dust and other allergens floating in the air. I don't agree with consumer reports on this one.
Neither the Austin Air or Airpura air cleaners have any fancy controls, flashing lights or warning noises. All they have is a 3 speed on/off switch. Pretty simple yet very effective. The machines are made from 16 gage steel and have a powder coated finish so there is no out gassing or rattles coming from any plastic. My daughter even uses her air cleaner as a night stand.
The design of the Austin air and Airpura units is basic. Air is drawn into the unit on all sides of the machine. Then it is drawn through 2 prefilters, activated carbon/zeolite and the the HEPA filter. A couple of the Airpura air cleaners also incorporate UV as a way to keep the filter free of virus and bacteria. Like I said, simple but effective.
Several brands of air cleaners being sold today use ionization as a way of cleaning the air. All ionization does is make the particles heavy and they drop to the floor or on the furniture. The air is cleaner until you walk across the floor and then the particles will become airborne again. They float around awhile and then fall again.
Both manufactures stand behind their machines with warranties of 5 to 10 years. I can guarantee you most of the air cleaners being sold today will not last more than 2 years much less 5. We have customers that have had their air cleaners for 15 plus years and they are still going strong.
We can have any air cleaner we want in our home. The only HEPA air cleaner we use are Austin Air Healthmate. They are simple yet effective. For more general information about air cleaners and air purifiers check out hepaaircleaner.com.
Wishing you the best of health.
Mike Krause
AllergyStore.com
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Neither the Austin Air or Airpura air cleaners have any fancy controls, flashing lights or warning noises. All they have is a 3 speed on/off switch. Pretty simple yet very effective. The machines are made from 16 gage steel and have a powder coated finish so there is no out gassing or rattles coming from any plastic. My daughter even uses her air cleaner as a night stand.
The design of the Austin air and Airpura units is basic. Air is drawn into the unit on all sides of the machine. Then it is drawn through 2 prefilters, activated carbon/zeolite and the the HEPA filter. A couple of the Airpura air cleaners also incorporate UV as a way to keep the filter free of virus and bacteria. Like I said, simple but effective.
Several brands of air cleaners being sold today use ionization as a way of cleaning the air. All ionization does is make the particles heavy and they drop to the floor or on the furniture. The air is cleaner until you walk across the floor and then the particles will become airborne again. They float around awhile and then fall again.
Both manufactures stand behind their machines with warranties of 5 to 10 years. I can guarantee you most of the air cleaners being sold today will not last more than 2 years much less 5. We have customers that have had their air cleaners for 15 plus years and they are still going strong.
We can have any air cleaner we want in our home. The only HEPA air cleaner we use are Austin Air Healthmate. They are simple yet effective. For more general information about air cleaners and air purifiers check out hepaaircleaner.com.
Wishing you the best of health.
Mike Krause
AllergyStore.com
More info at Hubpage:
I have had my Austin Air HealthMates for many years. Never a problem. IMHO they are the best air cleaners made. Austin Air may not make the prettiest, sexiest, sleekest looking machines but they are workhorses and do the job. I love my Austin Air air cleaners as much as my Miele vacuum cleaner. I don't know much about the AirPura air cleaner. Is it a HEPA air cleaner? What's up with those?
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The air cleaners made by Airpura are true HEPA air purification systems. Like the Austin Air healthmates they use a combination of hepa, activated carbon and UV is some models. I don't think you would call them sexy either.
The Airpura purification systems we carry are specialized units for specific air cleaning needs. We have the T600 for cigarette and cigar smoke. This air cleaner uses a tar barrier and 26lbs of carbon to clean out all the chemicals in smoke. The UV600 air cleaner uses UV to kill micro-organisms on the filter so they can't be spread and the P600 is designed for chemicals and VOC removal.
We also like Airpura air purification units because they are easy to use, effective, well built and dependable. These are not some cheap plastic air cleaners made in China.
For more information visit the Airpura product page on the Allergy Store's web site, Airpaura air purification systems or call us at 800-771-2246.
Wishing you the best of health
Mike Krause
AllergyStore.com
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We have been using the austin air cleaners for over 10 years and they are great. Simple to use and take care of. One of the few things I own that still works just like it did when I bought it.
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I have to say that IQAir makes the best quality HEPA Air Cleaners I've used thus far. Excellent product!
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I can't believe you are happy with your IQAir. The thing that company does best is market. I looked at one and on high it only moved a little over 200 cfm. It had a bunch of speeds, but what good is a bunch of speeds if the high speed isn't even enough to move some air? The salesman said "Can you believe how quiet it is?" and I said "sure it's quiet...its not moving any air and its easy to be quiet when you aren't getting air to the filter". Geesh some of these sales people expect you to be so ignorant! I know the people at this allergy store like Austin Air and Airpura...but give me my Austin Airs over that IQAir any day!
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