Good article.
Oh, come on, man.
You & I both know that the modern household is a cocktail of chemical antagonists and that a filter is, at best, a Band-Aid for a lousy health situation for someone with impaired health symptoms as serious as COPD living in today’s toxic environment we label ‘home’.
At a minimum - in addition to generous fresh air - plants should be a greater priority than an inefficient filter, plus ridding the living space of all sources of off-gassing.
Bookmark
I need to clean up my air filtration, I am absolutely sure. Thanks for posting this one, especially.
Bttt
We have a few of those in the house because they help our cat that has allergies. No doubt they’re helping us, too.
Bkmk
IMneverHO the article switched cubic feet with cubic meters.
(I know it is against common FR practice to read the article but I’m a contrarian :-)
I have a few PM detectors.
They all measure ug/m^3 NOT ug/foot^3
There are 35.28 cubic feet in 1 cubic meter.
12 ug/foot^3 = 423 ug/m^3
423 ug/m^3 of 2.5 micron particles is a LOT.
I have emphysema(COPD) and I do advocate for filtered air.
Part of my body’s retaliation for the abuse I volunteered for is athsma and allergies in old age on top of the emphysema. Some things I used to tolerate I simply can not tolerate any more. Many perfumes in household products are no fun either.
A filter with activated charcoal can grab many of theese irritants too.
I make my own air filter machine out of a Lasko 20” box fan and a 20”x20”x5” furnace filter taped to the input side of the fan. I spend about US$ 50.00 for 1 MERV 13 filter on amazon. (the new Lasko fans are junky though)
Next refill will be with a MERV 16 filter at over US$100.00 each (just for a replacement furnace filter), ouch!
A filter lasts me many months. I measure the particles so I do not discard the filter too soon.
I am happy with the return on my investment.
It made some improvement in my quality of life.
YMMV