A total of 23 reviews of this product on Reddit.
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> There are also white noise machines that can help drown out noise…or sleeping with a fan blowing on your face can function the same way.
This. Go get a loud air filter. This is by far the easiest solution.
We have several of these we’ve been lucky enough to find at Goodwill. They are awesome. You’ll only need one for noise. Put it right next to your bed.
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Any small room HEPA filter unit on Amazon should be sufficient. Make sure it’s an actual HEPA filter, and not HEPA like. Read descriptions carefully.
EDIT: I’ve had two versions of this and they’ve worked well. A bigger one that died after 6 years of daily use, and now a smaller one meant just for my bedroom.
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anti-allergen cat wipes! you use them once a week or so on kitty’s fur. it works because the allergy is actually to the cat’s saliva, not the fur itself.
that along with the hepa purifier (and a hepa vacuum) as suggested, and just grooming every day with a good brush (check out the Chirpy brush on amazon, works wonders).
the rest is just time. many people stop being allergic after a few months of exposure 🙂
edit: i use this purifier and it’s awesome. it’s been running on high 24/7 for 3 yrs now flawlessly. it has a permanent filter that you vacuum every couple of weeks and a cheap charcoal filter you can vacuum a few times before having to replace it.
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There air filters are fantastic white noise generators. This one is kind of extreme but it works well. I’m sure there are cheaper and smaller ones.
Honeywell 50250-S True HEPA Air Purifier, 390 sq. ft, White https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00007E7RY/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_i_KYFBNKA9E4KQZY8SMZJG
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I have a huge Honeywell air purifier that I sleep with running wide open. The only time it sucks is when the power goes out and suddenly there is no more wonderful noise to drown out the damned ringing.
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I’ve been in this situation several times in my current apartment. I went with an air filter like this one. It doesn’t completely eliminate smoke but it helps a lot. Also helps with my allergies.
The smoking tenant eventually caused a fire (fire trucks and everything) and ended up leaving shortly after so that problem solved itself, I guess.
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> is anywhere good anymore? lol
It is weird that people don’t talk about it. What specifically have you tried in terms of starting conversations?
As for where is “good” these days, my window sills don’t constantly fill with black dust so I suspect here’s “good” with regard to coal particulates.
If I had that going on, I’d be looking for some kind of air filter I can have in the house that circulates and cleans the air. Maybe something like this: https://www.amazon.com/Honeywell-50250-S-True-HEPA-Purifier/dp/B00007E7RY/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1467784871&sr=8-4&keywords=hepa+filter
Would be an interesting experiment to let that thing run in one of your rooms for a week and then take a look at the filter. I wonder if I would have black dust in it?
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I got this beast http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00007E7RY?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o07_s00
It’s my best purchase. No rat smell and keeps all the dust to an incredible minimum so my rats don’t get sneezy either do I. It also blows enough cool air that on the highest setting acts like a mini fan/air conditioner. 100% worth the price
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A few of these are likely to do much more good than a furnace filter. For the furnace filter to do much good you’d have to run the fan 24×7 anyway, and with a restrictive filter that can be hard on your air handler. I have plug in hepa filters I run in my living area and bedroom for a few months during spring/early summer and it helps enormously.
If you wanted to do whole house I’d suggest calling a HVAC company about installing a central HEPA air cleaner.
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I wouldn’t grab either of those high-dollar filters for that job. Neither is going to filter better than a $100 Honeywell, and there aren’t enough gains in fan efficiency to ever pay for a quarter of the price difference.
My wife has awful allergies, and we run three Honeywell 50250 filters around the house. Have for a few years. You can buy three for not much more than the cheaper of the two filters you listed above, and each of the three would be about 1/3 higher air flow, so for the same money you get filtration that’s 4x as effective. They’re both HEPA, with washable pre-filters.
Here’s the amazon link if you’d like. What you’re paying for with the Coway and BlueAir are primarily pretty looks and good advertising copy.
Good luck!
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Get a HEPA unit. Seriously. When the ManBeast and I moved in together, he started sneezing constantly. Same look you have. I bought the HEPA unit I linked, with the idea being that it is more than we need for our current apartment, so that when we move into a larger place at some point, I won’t need to replace it. The thing has been a godsend. The ManBeast’s allergies are fine now, and the unit even helps to take care of litterbox odors. There are cheaper ones out there, but now that I’ve seen first hand how much they can help, I really can’t recommend enough getting one.
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You could get a HEPA air purifier to keep airborne cat dander under control. Also you might be able to get antihistamine shots through your doctor. If I’m not mistaken, some things seem to more easily trigger an allergic reaction as we age.
A cat insinuated itself into our home years ago, my wife and I both are allergic to cats, but over time it seems like we’ve gotten accustomed enough that our reaction now is relatively light compared to around the time we first got him. If we go to someone’s home though who’s got that distinctive tang of cat dander in the air, we both start reacting similarly, so I guess keeping the air clean in conjunction with having our one cat whom our body’s antibodies have become mostly accustomed to helps minimize the impact.
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Start with a good hepa filter like this one: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00007E7RY/
That’s a real good bang for your buck. The medium setting is a nice balance between noise and performance. You could also get a humidifier along with it. I use this one: https://www.amazon.com/AIRCARE-Evaporative-Humidifier-Adjustable-4-75-Gallon/dp/B07GZDLMMB
The combination of clearer air and proper humidity will help everyone in the house, especially at night when you sleep better.
I wish I had known to do this sooner. It wasn’t until my cat was about 7 years old that I tried it and it drastically reduced his asthma attacks. I almost feel like it was abuse NOT to have gotten these things the moment we realized he was suffering.
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A few of theses guys do wonders, especially in rooms you spend time in, and filter media is fairly cheap you just swap the carbon filter as the main filter will last for 10 years.
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Also is bad practice to use your ac/heater unit to filter air, especially true for ac/heatpumps is you don’t want a high filtration at all as it hurts the system efficacy and will cost you a ton of money in the long run. That filter is only to protect the fan in the unit.
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TBH I notice it a LOT less and have to clean my PC a LOT less than I did when I was still smoking. Ultra bonus? My keyboard isn’t full of ashes and my monitor screens aren’t covered in a yellow film. As for air purifiers, I like these:
https://www.amazon.com/Honeywell-50250-S-True-HEPA-Purifier/dp/B00007E7RY
Expensive, yes, but I have had one for 14 years now and since I do keep things vacuumed and dusted the filters last me 1-2 years.
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Thank you will give that a try we were looking at this one think this would do the trick?
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This guy:
https://www.amazon.com/Honeywell-50250-S-True-HEPA-Purifier/dp/B00007E7RY?th=1
Honeywell 50250-S
It’s a beast and loud, but wife’s allergies are much improved — which is why we needed it.
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Put an air filter in her room right now.
I had one of those short, fat, round Honeywell HEPA filters. It reduced the dust in my apartment tremendously. I set it to run for about an hour per day while I was gone, and turned it on when I was vacuuming. World of difference.
Edit: links. I had one like this, except programmable. I guess they don’t have a programmable version in that form factor anymore. I guess this style is the only option.
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I got this one and it gets the job done. You only need to replace the carbon filter every couple of months. It was slightly cheaper when I bought it a month ago, though.
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I came here hoping to learn more about this air purifier as well. I got excited thinking it would look way slicker than my honeywell hepa filter.
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> The BETTER solution is to buy purpose-built air filtering machines. They are smaller, quieter, run 24×7, more cost effective, and so forth. You can find these anywhere, such as Amazon, Best Buy, Home Depot, etc. Check the reviews and pick one that works for you.
Well yes, it is a better solution, but having a 2-foot-wide drum in the corner of every room making a bunch of noise isn’t ideal either.
To do my house, I’d need like…6 of them? Maybe 7?
EDIT: Talking about the same thing /u/chadcf is: http://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B00007E7RY/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1
