Vent: That $80 air purifier I bought for my wood shop did nothing

I picked up one of those cheap units off Amazon thinking it'd handle the dust from my table saw. After a week my filters were clogged and the air still looked hazy. Turns out I needed something rated for the room size and CFM levels. Learned the hard way that you gotta check the specs for the square footage. Anyone else waste money on a purifier that didn't cut it?

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jesse_green5522d ago

Bought a huge one for a buddy's garage and it cleared the air in like 10 minutes.

reese12422d ago

Crazy how fast big machines solve problems right? @jesse_green55 that's the thing with life now. We buy huge everything to fix tiny things fast. Like my buddy spent a grand on a dehumidifier for one damp corner in his basement. Whole house is dry but the electric bill tripled. Sometimes the simple fix works just as good.

joelt7022d agoMost Upvoted

My pal Dave spent like $600 on one of those big commercial air purifiers for his woodshop, you know, the kind that hang from the ceiling. He fired it up and within 15 minutes the dust haze was completely gone, like magic or something. But then his wife called him crazy when she saw the power draw, said it cost more to run than their fridge. He ended up just opening the garage door on breezy days and using a box fan, funny enough. Sometimes you just gotta laugh at how we all go overboard with the big fixes when a simple one works fine.