Ed Sherbenou articles
Re: Air Purifier for Cat Litter Box Odor
A Reader writes: Hi again Ed. While not strictly your area, I was wondering if you would have any helpful advice regarding effective cat litter box odor reducing devices? Like air purifiers I’m finding there is a
Shark Navigator Lift-Away Pro NV356E Vacuum Cleaner Review
Lift Away NV356 Review By now almost every vacuum buyer has seen Euro-Pro CEO Mark Rosenzweig’s Oreck-style infomercials for the Shark Navigator Lift-Away vacuums. The TV infomercials feature hokey stunts like having the Shark suck
Indoor Air Quality and Your Vacuum Cleaner
Consumer Alert: read this page before buying your next vacuum cleaner. For 100 years the vacuum industry has plodded along, with nobody asking too many questions about the vacs or the environment they created. But
Air Purifiers: Reports on Consumer Reports Magazine
Consumer Reports (CR) ranks air purifiers – it reminds me of an old story: Brer Rabbit and the Tar Baby. The modern screenplay features Sharper Image and IQ-Air taking turns as Brer Rabbit, and stars
Clean Air Delivery Rate
The Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers (AHAM), which tests, certifies, and publishes CADR’s, is an industry lobbying group of home appliance manufacturers. This trade association represents manufacturers of major home appliances, portable and floor care
What To Know You Buy the Wrong Air Purifier – Ed’s tips
With so many products claiming to clean air, purifier technical evaluation is very challenging. New products claiming technological breakthroughs are introduced with heavy marketing faster than serious reviewers can adapt. My all time trademarked air
DIY Twin Window Fan Air Filter
There are a number of situations where outdoor pollutants, like pollen, smoke from the outside, and urban air in general, are the main sources of poor indoor air quality. An air purifier cannot intercept these
Danger: Air Purifier and Ozone Generator Health Effects
The most controversial type of home air purifier uses ozone oxidation. It is potentially dangerous to the health of naive users. In the hands of educated users and professional remediators, ozonation is a useful and practical
Electrostatic Air Filtration: Monster Mash
Electrostatic air filtration is another name for the electrostatic precipitator (ESP). Ionic Breeze wss one very popular “ionic” air purifier using ESP filtration technology, Freidrich C90b was another. Neither of these air cleaners survived the
HEPA-Type Filter: The Great Pretender
HEPA-Type is NOT a real HEPA filter (True-HEPA), it is a marketing term designed to fool novice buyers. HEPA (High Efficiency Particulate Arrestance) is an efficiency standard for air filters sold in the USA, NOT necessarily confined to folded paper element
