Air Purifiers For Your Apartment

While homes seemingly have endless options for air purifiers, apartments have less. For instance unless you can convince your landlord to install a whole house air purifier for the whole complex, that's one option you can eliminate right away. Your best bet for apartment life will almost always be a portable unit of some type. But what type?

If you're tired of leaving the windows open to air out your home or find you are constantly replacing plug-in flower-scented air fresheners you may need something stronger. You may need an air purifier.

Living plants are one option available to you. Certainly they are portable enough. Plants are known to be capable of naturally removing carbon monoxide and formaldehyde. They can also take benzene out of the air, which is found in oils, gasoline, rubber, and paints.

All of these substances are known to be irritating odors. Common household plants known for being exceptionally good filters include Gerbera Daisy, English Ivy, and Mums.

Burning candles, particularly beeswax candles, also works as a natural air purifier against odors. There are scented and unscented varieties, and they come in all shapes and sizes.

While candles don't address the cause of the odor, they can temporarily clean a home or office. Simply put, they cover it up. Beeswax candles are available at most discount and interior decorating stores, as well as online.

If you really want to take clean the air in your apartment, however, you might need to bring out the "big guns." Plants and candles just may not be enough. In addition, candles can actually add more irritants to the air. You definitely don't want that. Instead, you might want to consider a UV air purifier.

Odor-causing bacteria, such as what is found in diapers, bathrooms, and in your garbage need to be taken care of at the source. Simply opening windows, burning candles, cannot filter out these odors and growing flowers.

Bacteria cause these smells. Therefore, you will need an air purifier with a UV light. Lucky for you, there are a variety of UV light air purifiers available to choose from.

The ultra-violet light (UV) technology used in these air purifiers is actually quite complex. You don't need to understand the science, just know that they work. And they are easy to use. In fact, UV air purifiers can be easily placed inside your air ducts where they can work their magic. These air purifiers actually irradiate the bacteria, viruses, and other germs. That's why they're the primary choice of hospitals and government buildings.

To be effective, however, UV air purifiers require circulating air because the contaminates need to come close to the UV light in order to be zapped by the radiation. For this reason, a UV bulb is only 60 percent efficient when the pollutant is .4 inches from the bulb. At 2 inches, its effectiveness drops to only 20 percent.

You can also purchase a UV air purifier in combination with a HEPA filter and an ionizing system. These combo air purifier systems will help get rid of those nasty garlic and fish odors, while also helping to reduce the allergens and dust in the air. This provides an added bonus to the odor removal process.

There are some spray air fresheners that work very much like a UV air purifier. You need to make sure, however, to only use a spray air purifier that is also a disinfectant. These air fresheners kill odor-causing viruses and bacteria, but they are only effective on the area where they are sprayed.

Therefore, you will need to reapply the spray if the odors reoccur. In addition, air fresheners do not improve the air quality, while an air purifier does. And they won't work against stinky cheese or other kitchen odors.

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