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I legitimately have no clue what people think when they say pine pellets smell the least. As someone sensitive to smells (cats in particular but I have 4), HELL NO this could not be worse advice lol. My house smelled like a barn (hyperbole, but much worse) when trying pine despite the boxes being in

I clean with soap and water or everclear. Austin health mate plus is a great albeit expensive air purifier. And yes houses are preferable. Although houses are certainly not guaranteed to be problem free.

For commercial purifiers I would check out the Smart Air Blast Mini, Austin Air Healthmate, Coway AP-1512HH, or IQAir HealthPro Plus. AirFanta 3pro I recommended yesterday has a good price-to-performance and noise-to-performance. The other PC Fan type purifiers (NuKit, Clean Air Kits, North Box Syst

okay so i spent way too long researching this same problem last spring and the short version is: most air purifiers marketed for odor are kind of a scam unless they have a substantial activated carbon stage, not just a thin carbon-coated pre-filter. the rabbit hole i went down led me to compare the

Yea it’s an Austin air health mate +. Basically top of the line. I think the only ones better are IQ AIR multi gasses and they’re like $1800

Ok, so VOCs are really hard to deal with using consumer purifiers. If you want that, get a bunch of something like the Austin Air HealthMate HM400. It's expensive, larger, louder, and less energy efficient than other options, but it has a lot of active carbon that will help with VOCs. If you are wil

Max CADR is ~150-155, on full blow your ears out mode. At <45 dB it’s only 77 cfm. https://housefresh.com/austin-air-healthmate/ To be clear- I have 3 Austin airs. I used to love them, and they have served honorably in adsorbing a VOC problem I have, but I originally got them for particulates and I’