Air Filters for Allgeries / Asthma

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jamiedolan@gmail.com - 20 Mar 2006 01:51 GMT

HI,

I have allgeries to multiple items, including dust mites. I have 4
honeywell air purifiers model 50250, that is a fairly large unit that
is supose to clean like 370 sq feet. I normally run like 3 of them all
the time, one unit is there quiet model and it is a bit smaller.

There is still a lot of dust in my house, and I think it is
contributing to my allgeries / asthma, and I am searching for solutions
to keeping the house more dust free.

Do you have any thoughts / air filter recomendations / etc that might
help me?

I have heard the austin air products are very very good, but quite
expensive.

I have wondered if there are some aftermarket filters for my honeywells
that contain some carbon for filtering, but with my searches thus far,
I have not been able to find any.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Jamie

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NorthShoreCEO - 20 Mar 2006 04:06 GMT

Others will weigh in with good information, or you can do a
search since it's been discussed before. The only thing I'll say
is to stay away from Ionic Breeze and any units like that. They
don't do the job and adding even the smallest ozone particulates
into the air can make asthma worse.

The other thing is to be sure you're changing your furnace filter
often. Any disposible filter that is one inch thick needs to be
changed every month - not every three months. I didn't learn
this until recently. I don't use disposible filters, but found
that interesting since I've only heard people say they need to be
changed every three months.

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j r - 21 Mar 2006 03:54 GMT

if you still have dust, where is it coming from? when i was running an air
cleaner in each room i never even had to dust, it just didn't collect. (i
was in apartment building less than 25 years old)

try to find source of dust. you could have a loose duct joint into furnace
that is sucking dust in from basement or something. you could have old
plaster breaking down. you could be getting attic dust coming down. depends
on age and contruction of your building.

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Jamie Dolan - 25 Mar 2006 03:34 GMT

50 year old home. I have not been able to locate the source of the
dust. I am still working on that. I am cleaning everything!!

jamie

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