![\"\"](\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/PXL_20210207_134910248.jpg\")
<\/a>\nUnlike the one featured on Marketplace, ours featured two filters to provide for more airflow, lessening the load on the fan motor.<\/p>\n
In any event, their testing showed the most expensive Dyson (at $800), was one of the worst performing. The smallest unit was the worst performing on the CADR scale, a combination of how well it filters and how much air it moves.<\/p>\n
Our DIY unit came in the middle of the pack but at the absolute lowest price. It’s airflow is pretty high, so I suspect it lags a little in the filtration arena.<\/p>\n
Ours used an existing box fan and the purchase of two furnace filters from Home Depot for approx $20 each. CBC Marketplace had an interesting segment this week, on home air filters. https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/business\/portable-air-purifier-tests-marketplace-1.5900782 Interesting as well because we had built a DIY air filter a month or two ago: Unlike the one featured on Marketplace, ours featured two filters to provide for more airflow, lessening the load on the fan motor. In any event, their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-the-universe-and-everything","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9381"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9386,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9381\/revisions\/9386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nOur history with air cleaners in the past was that when it came time to purchase a new filter, they had gone out of production and you could not get them at all. Meaning the entire $100+ air cleaner was useless. Hence the DIY design. furnace filters will never go out of production.
\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"