HealthMate Standard Air Purifier, White - Advanced 4- Stage Filtration Air Purifiers For Home with Activated Carbon & Zeolite - Ideal as Air Purifiers for Bedroom, Model B400

I bought this unit about a month ago for my 750 square foot work studio. I absolutely love it and will be getting the smaller one for my home. The air that comes out feels so clean that it's a pleasure to have near me when I'm working. My work studio is full of computers and servers and I've long had a problem with dust. I have skin problems related to the dust and as a result I knew that I had to get something like this to prevent more serious health issues in the future. I did a lot of research and settled on the Austin Air Healthmate after at least a month of research and I couldn't be happier. Normally I have a cleaning lady come in once a month to clean and she always complains about the amount of dust that accumulates in the studio. She just came to do her monthly cleaning at the beginning of this month and was shocked at how little dust there was compared to normal. LOL! She thought I was using another cleaning person behind her back! The build quality of the unit is very, very good, and the shipment came fairly quickly. I keep it on all the time. When I'm at the studio, I have it set to the lowest setting and I find it's fairly quiet at that setting. When I leave for the day I turn it on full blast. At full blast it's kind of noisy. About as noisy as one of my computer servers when it's crunching numbers. I've only had for a month so far, so I don't know how much it's going to affect my electric bill, but whatever it does to my electric bill, it's totally worth it because of the outstanding improvement to the air quality in my studio! If there is one drawback I can think of, it's that the unit is pretty big compared to previous air filters I've had. Sadly, I may have a big problem convincing my wife to let me get one of the junior versions of this, because of the size. But she has noticed the improvement in the air quality in my studio and has been very impressed by it. I may yet be able to sell her on one of these for our home :).

Recently, I moved into a new apartment. I discovered after moving in that my neighbor is a heavy chain smoker and the smoke from his cigarettes was seeping into my bathroom and bedroom. I am a non smoker and found the smell hard to tolerate. I was also very anxious about the smell seeping into my clothes and mattress. The odor was making me cough and making my throat hurt. When I had friends over, they could smell it too. I bought this air purifier based on The Sweethome's recommendation as it apparently removes VOCs from the air better than other purifiers. The price is high but I justified the purchase as an emergency due to how anxious I was about the secondhand smoke exposure. Within a few hours of turning the purifier on, 90% of the cigarette smell was eliminated. I honestly have not smelled any secondhand smoke since using this purifier. I have kept the purifier on high during the day and have it in medium during the night. My apartment is about 800 sq feet and I feel that it does clean the air in the entire unit, even though there are a few different rooms. It sounds like a fan when it is running. I feel like it's a pleasant white noise overall, though the highest setting is a little too loud if you are trying to watch something nearby on a laptop. My only concern is how much the purifier will add to my electric bill. I have only had the purifier for a week, so I will try to follow up on that. To summarize: this filter has been so, so worth it for me. The price is high but if you are in a situation like I am, there is really no price you can put on your own health. Highly recommend. ***UPDATE***1 month use*** After one month of use, I haven't noticed any changes in my electric bill. I love this purifier! ***UPDATE***6 months use*** I still have this air purifier on all the time--on the high setting every day, and on the medium setting every night. It is still working great. I think that it has dipped a bit in performance since I first got it (maybe 5%). There is a significant difference in the air quality when the purifier is on high vs low. The low setting barely does anything, I never use it. I keep the purifier in my bedroom. Once, someone turned the purifier to low without my knowledge and I noticed a smoke smell in the other room--the smoke came from the purifier being on low and not high. Turning it back to high remedied this problem. For people in a similar situation to me, other interventions I suggest to reduce secondhand smoke exposure from your neighbors are to 1) never run the bathroom fan (it seems to suck in smoke from the neighboring unit) and 2) run your dryer as infrequently as possible as this will also suck in smoke from the neighboring unit. Our electric bill runs about $30-40 per month. Using the purifier does not seem to increase the bill at all. ***UPDATE***30 MONTHS OF USE*** Well after nearly 2.5 years I am moving out of my apartment and I am happy to say that the air purifier is still working well. We have not had to replace the filter during our time living here. The smoking neighbor still lives next door and is still smoking (I can smell it in the hallway) but it does not seem to enter our unit at all. For reference, our building is concrete (converted factory). I am planning to bring the air purifier to my next home just to help with dust and other odors in the air, but I am hoping to not run it on high every day any more. The noise has gotten more annoying over time but running it on anything other than the highest level does not seem to help as much. Another thing I wanted to update the review about is maintenance. Every week or so, I use the vacuum attachment to vacuum the sides of the machine. Dust usually builds up pretty quickly on the walls of the machine so clearing it frequently is important. Best of luck to anyone dealing with a challenging secondhand smoke situation.

We now have four of these units in our home, as our allergies are terrible. They run 24/7/365, usually on level 1, except for during allergy season where we will run them on higher levels. These are great at helping our allergies and cleans the air inside our house. I actually appreciate that they give a clear time limit for their filter life of max 5 years. The only thing is that they are becoming more and more expensive. The first one that I bought about 15 years ago was around $300, and now they are over $700, and filters are around $250 and rising as well. They do what they claim though, and I appreciate how well they work, so we will continue to make the investment every 5 years to replace the filters, our allergies are worth it. We have one in each bedroom, and then one in the living room. On level 1, they are difficult to hear, but on level 3 they are obtrusively loud. It can be nice white noise at times though, but know that at the highest setting it is considerably loud.

This is a simple device designed to do one thing well... it cleans air really well.

I Live with a cigar smoker. Drives me batty but I love him!! While he is actively smoking this cleaner does not take the odour away, but I leave it on all night, and when I come down in the morning the air is clean and there is no stale cigar odour which is a real joy! Other family members have commented on this as well. VERY PLEASED! If it could remove the odour as it is being released into the air I would give it 5 stars, but maybe that is impossible

I’m happy with these product I wait about 5 months before writing this review. Me and my children used to suffer from seasonal allergies very bad so far we went through winter, spring and now summer and like magic not one had gotten sick and thanks God because with this coronavirus It would have been very worrying. Also it is really good removing bad smells. So far super happy let your know if something change.