Air purifiers - Share your experience...
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Caporegime
Just repaint the room. What are the landlords going to do?
They'll need a purifier with a carbon filter; a normal HEPA one won't do much.
Give the walls a wipe down, hopefully they haven't smoked so much in there that they have yellowed.
An air purifier might help, need something to deodorise really like activated charcoal
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air purifiers are just fans with a filter right? and not that powerful so won't give a negative air seal on the room and pull all the crap anyway.
seems like your better of hoovering often?
they don't remove gases and odours just particles in the air.
as above you probably need sugar soap, or just paint all your walls with washable paint and give it a good scrub with a soft cloth and washing up liquid.
I wish I did every room in my house with washable paint, my bathroom is still as white as it was 10 years ago and I just rub the walls with a towel that needs a wash after I shower.
still looks good as new, I guess nicotine stains and is harder to remove though.
if you smoke indoors and have the little glass windows above intenral doors give one a spray with window cleaner and wipe it, check how much yellow/brown is on the cloth, then convince yourself to smoke outside
seems like your better of hoovering often?
shouldn't you use an ionizer or whatever for that? but I don't think they are safe to be around, and they only trap pollutants, but smoke is that.
they don't remove gases and odours just particles in the air.
as above you probably need sugar soap, or just paint all your walls with washable paint and give it a good scrub with a soft cloth and washing up liquid.
I wish I did every room in my house with washable paint, my bathroom is still as white as it was 10 years ago and I just rub the walls with a towel that needs a wash after I shower.
still looks good as new, I guess nicotine stains and is harder to remove though.
if you smoke indoors and have the little glass windows above intenral doors give one a spray with window cleaner and wipe it, check how much yellow/brown is on the cloth, then convince yourself to smoke outside
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Some air purifiers have an activated carbon mesh on them which specifically helps with bad smells and the good ones are very powerful but can be loud on the highest setting, so it's about getting a good balance between noise and performance (look at the CADR numbers to determine performance).
I am pleased with with my Meaco 76X5 with the HEPA H13 filter upgrade (it comes with the slightly worse, but still very good H11 filter by default). It's very loud on the highest setting, but is quiet on medium and silent on low. I use medium with no trouble, you could even sleep with it in the room when it's on this setting.
The Which review said it was very loud on all settings, but they must have had a faulty unit because that's certainly not been my experience (I'd say it's as quiet as a reasonably quiet PC at modest load on the medium setting).
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I am pleased with with my Meaco 76X5 with the HEPA H13 filter upgrade (it comes with the slightly worse, but still very good H11 filter by default). It's very loud on the highest setting, but is quiet on medium and silent on low. I use medium with no trouble, you could even sleep with it in the room when it's on this setting.
The Which review said it was very loud on all settings, but they must have had a faulty unit because that's certainly not been my experience (I'd say it's as quiet as a reasonably quiet PC at modest load on the medium setting).
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Soldato
It wont work... the walls are inpregnated with the smell... Would be better off buying a plugin air fresener, but would try the washing the wall idea 1st
Soldato
Why would you paint your walls then scrub the fresh paint?
didn't think I needed to add "as needed" on the end since its pretty damn obvious what I meant unless the person reading the post is super dense.
Soldato
I'm genuinely surprised you'd be such an arse like that. You're very outspoken on here but often read things the wrong way or to use your mannerism, "appear to be super dense".
Forgive me for reading things exactly as they're written
I assumed you were being super anal to make some bizarre point, as it only takes a slight amount of common sense to get my meaning surely?I'm genuinely surprised you'd be such an arse like that. You're very outspoken on here but often read things the wrong way or to use your mannerism, "appear to be super dense".
Forgive me for reading things exactly as they're written
Sorry if I offended you ,it's nothing personal, I rarely even look at the names of people I reply to and yes I am quite blunt and insensitive.