When you are at your local department store, or home improvement store, and you are standing there, staring at the newest selection of air purifiers, it can be difficult to discern the best air purifiers from the worst. Many people figure that the best is always more expensive and, for the most part, this is true. However, if you want know which, out of the various air purifiers available, are the best, you should definitely seek out one of the many consumer reports.

Where To Find Consumer Reports

Consumer reports, when comprised by an unbiased opinion, are invaluable when trying to decide which is the best, no matter what product you are inquiring about. There are consumer report magazines and then there are websites. Consumer report websites might be your best choice because you can do a quick internet search to find the air purifier ratings, as opposed to trying to find out which magazine issue covered the subject.

Use Your Favorite Search Engine

Simply do a search using your favorite search engine and you’ll likely see a few consumer reports on the best air purifiers on the market today. You’ll find out which ones are worth your money and which aren’t. You will find out the perks and the bugs that are associated with each one as well as a ratings system. The ratings given will enable you to find out which brand is indeed the best air purifier.

There are many air purifiers on the market today. Some use filters and some don’t. Some cost twenty dollars and some cost a hundred or more. Some are little and some are large. Just by looking, you can’t determine which one is the best. You would either have to use each one individually, or you can trust someone who already has. That is how consumer reports are written. Someone sought out to find out which brand is the best air purifier and then they wrote a report about it.

They Must Be Unbiased

Just make sure that the consumer reports are unbiased. Make sure that they aren’t written by a particular company just to make their brand look like it’s the best when, in fact, it isn’t. Trust the consumer reports that seem to be the most non-judgmental and that’s how you’ll find out which is the best air purifier.

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Unfortunately today no one can really say that water that is coming out of the faucet is safe to drink. Even if we live near the countryside, we can never really be sure if the air we breathe is fresh and pollution free. The numerous allergens, bad bacteria and microscopic organisms that float in the air and water systems are the main cause of diseases that can be fatal, particularly to babies and elderly people.

Fortunately for us, there are numerous gadgets that can purify the air we breathe and the water we drink. Such devices, which have numerous types, are not only readily available in the market, but also easy on the budget.

Here are the most common types of water purifiers that you can use in your home:

Countertop filters

The countertop filters are the most basic water filtration or purification system that you can use. It is very cheap and easy to install. The only maintenance or installation required for countertop and faucet mount filters is the replacement of filters. Once installed, you will not find any difficulty in using, cleaning and maintaining such filters.

If your main concern is to purify the water that you drink, countertop filters is best for your. These compact water filters can lessen elements, such as chlorine, asbestos, mercury and lead in your water. Such are also capable of removing bad odor and taste in drinking waters.

Under sink water purification system

Whole house systems, particularly UV and reverse osmosis technologies, are placed mostly under your sink. You can be assured that such gadgets could not only filter sediments and some elements from your water, but also kill most microorganisms.

These sink filters are more expensive and would require more advanced installation skills. More often than not, manufacturers usually require technicians to install such water purification systems.

To determine which type of water purifier is needed by you and your family, you first need to have the water in your home tested. If there are really no major contaminates in your water, you can choose simple countertop filters. If you require tougher purification process to get rid of contaminates in your water, then you might want to consider buying the sink filters, and even the whole house system.

Common kinds of home air purifiers

Whole House System

If your house is located in major thoroughfares and is exposed to lots of pollution-emitting vehicles, then you might want to install a whole house air purification system. This is quite expensive, but you will be assured that your whole family, whenever they are inside your house, can breathe fresh and clean air.

Such a system is usually installed in central HVAC system, air conditioning, or heating systems. Thus, whenever your fan starts, the purification process also commences.
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Problem

Something invisible in the air could be making you ill right now and you don’t know it. Indoor air, even in your own home may be slowly eroding your health. You hear it on the news; stories of families who are victims of mold and insurance companies ending their financial bloodshed by revising their policy to not include coverage for damage caused by the invisible enemy.

Dogs are not man’s best friend when a family member is having an allergic episode. Second-hand smoke not only spoils everyone’s meals, but you heard a thousand times what harm it does if you’ve been over exposed. Dirty air is simply not good for anyone. Vacuuming, dusting, wiping or sticking a freshener on a wall will not alleviate these respiratory symptoms.

Solution

Running an air purifier inside your home can help remove the bad air and re-circulate cleaner air. Health experts say the air inside your home is five times as dirty as the air outside. Air purifiers that can clean this dirty air, use various methods to remove the bad air in your home so you can breathe cleaner air and save your lungs.

Choices

Three popular types of air purifiers are available.

HEPA

Air purifiers that use the HEPA or High Efficiency Particulate Air filters are suppose to trap 99.97 percent of fine particles as small as 0.3 microns in size. In other words, it can catch something you wouldn’t want to breathe in, hundreds of times smaller than a strand of hair. A filter must meet that standard before it’s regarded as a true HEPA filter. So don’t be faked-out by some products that advertise themselves as “HEPA like,” which sadly doesn’t even come close to the effectiveness of the real thing.

Ionic Air Purifiers

Ionic air purifiers or ionizers are a type of room air purifier that zaps air borne particles with negative ions or electrical charges that make them weigh more. These particles like dust or dander, then drop to the floor, where you then sweep or vacuumed them away. However, some particles can return into the air, so some ionizers use metal plates to attract these negatively charge particles. Cleaning of these plates is required after they have accumulated too much gunk that would have made your life miserable.

UV Air Purifiers

Air purifiers using UV light are the most advance of the types available. Room air is drawn into these purifiers and ultraviolet light is applied before the air travels back out. The ultraviolet light kills or destroys bacteria, mold and even viruses.

Manufacturers of these air purifiers have also combined all three of these methods in their advance purifiers that provide families the best protection available today from the indoor pollution that we breathe in but can’t see with our naked eyes.

Copyright 2006 by Leroy Chan

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