WalMart Air Purifier Are Useless – 3 Reasons

Your shopping in walmart and you see an air purifier on special for less than $80! Stop! Don’t bother this is a total waste of money and i will tell you why.

 

WalMart works by selling cheap products en masse. Stack them high and sell em cheap works well for tinned tomatoes or cheap towels but is useless when it comes to important technology such as air purifiers.

When you check WalMart for an air purifier most of the stock is less than $150. Cheap in the world of purifiers meant that they will not provide a solution to your needs.

Would you buy a central heating boiler for less than $100 or what about an alarm system for your house? Some jobs just require you to spend more so that you can find the right solution.

It would be great if you could clean your the air of your whole house for less than $150 but this concept is just marketing hype to take your money.

Here are 3 of the top reasons for not shopping at Walmart for you air purifier.

1. Be Wary About Sharper Image

Sharper image have been known to create excessive levels of ozone with their range of ionic breeze air purifiers.

Now their range is not deadly but its not great either. A sharper image purifier has limited range (less than 250 square feet) and only uses ionizer technology.

There has also be recent news that Sharper Image might be going bust as they have all ready moved out of Europe.

Read the following to learn more:

http://allergyclean.com/news/5112006.htm

http://www.livescience.com/technology/060509_air_purifiers.html

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=429459

2. Only Cleans 10% of Your Air

Right its true that cheap purifiers do remove some particles from your air. However they can only remove particles that are bigger than 0.3 microns. Often the adverts will shout about 97% removal of particles bigger than 0.3 microns which sounds great until you do some research. Did you know than 90% of air based particles are bigger than 0.3 microns? So your cheap purifier is only cleaning 10% of your air.

3. Great if you got a sealed room

Most people opt for a cheaper purifier because they only need it for their bedroom. As most Wal-Mart purifiers state that they can work in rooms less than 250 feet this is seen as the perfect solution.

However the air from the rest of your house will enter your room and your purifier will have to deal with it. Any purifier that can deal not deal with at least 1000 feet is useless.

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