Air Purifiers

I live in an extraordinarily polluted environment, and right now, the cost of breaking my lease and problems associated w/ relocating now would exceed the cost of this very expensive air purifier.
http://www.airpurifiers.com/products/iqair/gc-chemisorber.htm
If it works, it’s worth the money (esp. since I have chem sensitivities & allergies, so I’d probably find use for it anywhere), but if it doesn’t, it’s a huge waste for a glorified hepa filter (which is what it’d amount to if the chemical filtration didn’t work).
So my question is, how exactly does it filter out
Sulfur dioxide
Formaldehyde
Carbon dioxide
etc.
I’d be particularly interested to know how it can seriously filter Carbon dioxide, since that’s so prevalent in the air, I’d think that any filter for it’d be worn out within a day. That one in particular makes me question the validity of the product.
The sulfur dioxide, formaldehyde, and particulates from deisel are all very important to me, since these are some of the worst problems in this place, wedged between a factory w/ high sulfur dioxide emissions and an expressway, in a building full of gas stoves and heat, aside from fireplace smoke wafting in from the neighbors on some days.
Can someone with some knowledge of how these advanced air purifiers work please explain this to me? Would I be throwing my money away? (Please note that this is not a small purchase for me, especially looking at the cost and frequency of replacing the filters)

My chest really hurts. My landlord had cleaned the mold problem in my room. But I find it hard to breathe in there. But I also went a little crazy cleaning with chemicals such as tilex, a great value disinfectant, and I sprayed perfume because I still smelt mold. I haven’t cleaned the carpet yet or my stuffed animals, could the chemicals and my stuff be the reason why I can’t breathe well? Or is the mold in the walls?
I also have an air purifier with a hepa filter, should I change the filter?
It really hurts to breathe and Ive been in my moms room for now, but I really want to go back to my room.
I have the door open and a fan
still no hope
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Other than move.

I live above smokers. Their place is a small 1 bedroom apartment and there are 4 adults living there, all smokers. The smell comes up here, and its quite bad. My mother was a smoker, and when I lived with her that apartment didnt even smell as bad as my apartment does.

Im not trying to put smokers down, whatever you do with your life is your business, all Im asking is for help. I have tried so many things:

Candles: Glade, village, Fabreze odor remover
Sprays: Glade, Fabreze, Airwic, so on
Vinegar in bowls.
Charcoal on my floor
Baking soda in my carpet
Hung up wet towels to "absorb" the smell.
There have just been so many things I have tried.. Im out of ideas.

My window is wide open, and its about 30 degrees out. My room gets cold, but the smell doesnt go away. I live very close to a building, so I never get a breeze in my room or anything unfortunately. The window has been open for over a week, including night. Doesnt make much difference with the smell.

I’ve tried putting a box fan in the window backwards to pull the smoke out and it doesn’t. It just makes my room colder for some reason.

I’ve looked around for places it could come in… we have baseboard oil heat.. I don’t think its coming from there? There are no vents, or wholes in the floors that I can see..

I tried talking to them… politely. They were apologetic, and said they didnt know it was coming up… we had relief for about 24 hours and that was that.

We bought an air purifier, one of the honeywell hepa kinds. All it did was blow the smell around. My aunt let me borrow her big one, big enough for a 17×17 room.. I tried it in my bedroom (9×9) and it did the same, it blew the smell around.

Are there other things I can try? I really like my apartment, and my landlord… I dont want to move when my lease is up. Is there anything I can try? And, this place is not a non smoking apartment, so asking the landlord for help wont do me any good.

i have asthma and was told that a HEPA air filter would help a lot, especially since i keep two parakeets in my room and they can cause dander. so, i wanted to know how much they cost and is an air purifier the same thing? I saw air purifiers at walmart and some said that they produce hot air and other said that they produce cool air? which should i get? hot or cold? thanks!

Is there a vacuum out there it is a certified air purifier? I recently learned that vacuums blow out dust, even ones with expensive hepa filters leak some form of bacteria into the air.

I’m looking for facts only, not opinions. Sources preferred.
If you take a high power flashlight and shine it at the exhaust, you can see dust coming out. Even on the new dysons, orecks and kirbys.

Forcing you to shut all windows on that side of the house unless you wanted to inhale the smoke in your home and peeling paint from your house from the tanic acid of the smoke that made you have to touchup paint every year?

This stove is not exhausted to a chimney. Rather it is exhausted into a 6" pipe out the back side of their cement cellar, fumes pushed towards my house.

I run an air purifier and if I have it on and it sucks in that smoke from outside to push out clean air in my house, it cakes up and eventually puts out the smoky air….looks like ash on top. I just threw out the home made filter and I have to clean the fan in side too and the vent. The ash is so fine it makes it through a hepa filter and makes even finer particles move into the air that made it by that micron filter and makes us sick in this house if I don’t clean it thoroughly and change the filter. I try not to leave windows on that side of the house open when they are running that stove.

http://cgi.ebay.com/2-Oreck-XL-8-5-Pro-Air-Purifier-Truman-Cell-Plus_W0QQitemZ150396950855QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item23045b5947 is it safe to buy factory reconditioned? Thank you
I was hoping to find something a little bit cheaper and research it more before i purchased that one, but since you remember my question from before. You obviously know stuff bout the purifiers

I want to buy a good air purifier
I was thinking about an Ionic bodel or about a orik model but they are very expensive..
so if anybody knows of any good brands out there let me know..
I am mostly trying to get rid of cigerette smoke.

Please and thank you

I need a good, cheap air purifier. What one would you recommend?

Also are these safe around babies?

People smoke at the house me and my girlfriend are staying at and our baby will be here soon. Will the air purifier help a lot with that?

Thanks.

I need to remove a smoke smell from an apartment that I just moved into (previous renters were smokers). There is already new carpet and new paint and it has been scrubbed, the last thing to do now is rent an air purifier… anyone know where to rent one?