My employer bought one of these “air purifiers” made by Ecoquest. I explained that is was an ozone generator, they don’t care how it works, they think it’s the best thing since sliced bread. I don’t like the smell of the thing, and suggested they try a HEPA filter instead. Some people rave about how amazing these things are, but I just don’t like having the damn thing around.
Your take?
Well, if you don’t like having the thing around, then don’t have it around. I have one, but I keep it on a pretty low setting. It does keep smells down, does a lot to kill molds and such (so if it kills molds, what does it do to a human?), and I’ve noticed that there’s less dust floating around. Okay, to be fair, the “mold killing” setting has the instructions “do this when you’ll be away for a few hours” in the manual. I don’t think it’s crap, but I’m not taking all the “science” as-presented.
Do be aware, though, that much of the “raving” may be sales pitch, as EcoQuest IS a multi-level marketing organization.
My wife and I just looked into buying some air cleaners for the home to try and filter out some of the cat hair we have from our 6 cats, and so I went to Consumer Reports’ website to see what they had tested. Most of the top-rated portable models were HEPA-filter based, not ionic / ozone generators. Some of the ones in this latter category produced enough ozone to have unpleasant side effects (like aggravating airborne allergies), and these `not recommended’ models included some heavily marketed ones from Sharper Image (Ionic Breeze, for example). We went with some HEPA filter model cleaner for about $300 each.