Air Purifiers

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.

I was doing some research on the net regarding Air purifiers.
They state that ionizing the air is not effective.

They also talk about something called "hydroxyl radicals".

Anybody heard about this. Any opinions on a good air purifier?

I have a 8 month old ASH. Since last week, his abdomen pumps up and down rapidly 3 to 4 times a day. Since it usually happens after he eats and he hasn’t been coughing, I thought he has digestion problem. Anyhow, I took him to the vet today and they took an x-ray…and the vet told me he has feline asthma. She showed me the x-ray and pointed out "donuts" and white calcified spot in his lungs. I cried so hard at the clinic.

The vet prescribed Prednisolone suspension 3 mg/ml twice a day (1 ml each time) for a week then decrease to once a day then decrease to once every other day. She also prescribed Cyproheptadine 1 mg/ml twice a day as well. She is also doing a fungal screen.

Can any one who has knowledge about feline asthma or has cats with feline asthma share some of your experience with me? Does the medications prescribed sound right? I checked online and it seems like 3 mg/ml twice a day for a 9 lbs cat is a little too much? Does he need to be on medications for the rest of his life? What else can I do to make to help him? I just bought two HEPA air purifiers and changed his litter from pine to yesterday’s news.

THANKS SO MUCH!!
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Thank you so much JC for sharing your experience with me! He started the medicine last night and I am still watching for any improvement.

My cat has been on Hills Science Diet Nature’s Best Dry Kitten Food and Natural Balance Ultra Premium. I added Royal Canin Kitten 36 to his diet last month and it seems like it triggers the asthma but I am not sure.

I have been trying to switch him to can food (tried Wellness, Hills, Nutro) a few times but he just didn’t want it. Do you have any suggestions and tricks?

and the masks we bought you can still smell the smoke through the mask. We also have two air filters in the bedroom but they don’t really work as well as I would like them to. He knows he should stop smoking but he has tried and it didn’t work out.
PLEASE stop the " tell him to go outside" it is below zero here. I want info on air filters/ purifiers and face masks only.
Again stop with the lessons, I do not want a lesson, if I did I would have asked for a lesson. Everyone has an addiction have t be smoking, coffee, pop, sex, internet, tv or even drinking. So please stop " being a teacher" and give me the answers I was looking for and not a speach.

Ok so here’ my problem. My neighbour is insane, I really think she belongs in an institution of some sort. I can probably write a book about her but that’s not the point of this post. She smokes like crazy, probably 3 packs a day… I don’t know I’m just guessing but the problem is that I smell it all the time. Sometimes I can see her smoking out her window which you’d think would be a good thing, but I can visually see the cloud of smoke rolling it’s way into my window. So much for getting fresh air in the apartment.

I should also mention that I live in France and the building was probably built 500 years ago, so ventilation is not very good. Insulation is not very good.

I would try talking to her but that’s not really an option since she’s incoherent most of the time. Yes I was serious when I said she should be in an institution. People often think I’m just exaggerating and blowing things out of proportion yet as soon as they come over they agree with me that she’s nuts.

So I’ve been thinking about getting one of those air purifier/filters (with a hepa filter). Although I’m wondering if it would require good insultation to actually do anything, or if it will help at all. The apartment is not very well insulated, and there’s no A/C so I generally want the windows open (French people are scared of air conditioning… sucks for me). Any other suggestions on how to deal with this situation would be great. I am considering moving but until that happens… Thanks.
In response to the "if it’s only the smoke answer", it’s not… like I said I could write a book. But moving is definitely something I’m thinking about.

I have a 2007 Hyundai accent and Im thinking about getting either a K & N air filter or a cold air intake. Would either of them increase my horse power/gas mileage? And what one is cheaper?
also, does a cold intake require a hood scoop or other "tricking out"? Im only keeping it till i get me a truck.

Some details:

I’m a chronic allergy sufferer, in my 20s, and I finally went on Amazon and bought one of Honeywell’s affordable HEPA air filters. It comes with an "Ionizer" feature, which I didn’t know too much about, so I went on Yahoo! answers and the web to research.

Now I know that it ionizes air particles so they a) drop to the ground and/or b) become easier for the air filter to pick up. Seems like a good feature to me. Although, some internet sources suggested that ionizers could be useless and/or potentially harmful.

Either way, if I now want to use my "Ionizer" feature, should I be leaving it on all the time? I already leave the HEPA on all the time, set on the lowest setting (anything louder would be unbearable when I sleep, but the lowest setting is just about right).

Thanks for any information.

-James P.

The Ionic breeze ionizes air to draw it towards metal plates and attract dirt and dust. The Brethe has a vortex engine that creates a mist from tap water and a botanical "chemical" that filters the air. The Brethe is about 60 bucks for a standard unit and the Ionic breeze is about 120 dollars

My air filter was inserted incorrectly and now dirt particles are stuck in the heat pump coils. I only have a 4" space to run a vacuum across the coils. Other than to remove the duct work, how would anyone clean these return coils? Seems very dirty and difficult to access.

I moved to NYC and hate the dust. I’m an asthmatic and allergic to dust. My room is 12 x 15. Have tried Hamilton (hepa), researched on ozone purifiers (everybody, almost, says it’s bad), tried ionizers (did not work). What else is out there, AS PER OTHER"S EXPERIENCE, that won’t kill me with the price tag and replacement of whatever (e.g. filters). If somebody answers for me to move, it’s not an alternative as of this time. Please just help!!