Best Home Smoke Eater

for Getting Rid of Heavy Smoke

Home smoke eater is something you would need if there is a heavy cigarette smoking going on in your home.
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Ideally, in a home where there is at least one heavy smoker, there is a designated smoker room. That way, the second-hand smoke can be more or less contained in one room.

Of course the smoker room needs to have a good ventilation or exhaust to get rid of the smoke. A good quality home smoke eater can also help to improve the air quality of that room.

One thing to note though.

Atlhough a good quality cigarette smoke eater can help tremendously with the quality of indoor air where the smoking takes place, if the smoking is continuously happening, it will be hard for the smoke eater air purifier to keep up with the demand.

Hence, even though you buy the best smoke eater, don't expect a smoker room to be completely free from odor and toxin.

So what is the best smoke eater in the market today and how to choose the best one?

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Choosing the Best Home Smoke Eater

In order to choose a good smoke eater air purifier, it is important for you to know how a cigar smoke eater works.

A smoke eater air purifier uses either carbon or chemical (or both) to remove gases and smoke. Many cheaper air purifiers claim they have carbon filter to control odor. However, unless there is a sufficient amount of activated (pore-containing) carbon or chemicals (at least 5 pound of them), it's very likely that the air purifier is not going to be able to handle large amount of smoke.

In addition, to prolong the life of carbon or chemical air filters, it is important for a cigarette smoke eater to have a good prefilter which will filter out bigger molecular weights particulates. This will leave the carbon or chemical to deal with gas only.

Also, in order to filter out the remainder of air particulates which are too big for the carbon filter to handle or too small for the prefilter to capture, a good home smoke eater always has a good quality HEPA filter.

Too sum up, in order for a home smoke eater to be efficient, it needs:

• Sufficient amount of gas filter, most notably activated carbon or other chemicals.
• Prefilter.
• Good quality HEPA filter.
• Tight housing to prevent unclean air to bypass the filter.

Because of those requirement, a good home smoke eater costs a lot since only premium or top of the class air purifier can handle large amount of smoke. They are usually not available locally, but can be bought online.

Below is the recommendation of the best smoke air purifier to help with heavy smoking. These air purifiers are specially designed to have extra carbon or chemical so they can deal with large amount of smoke.

IQAIR Gas (GC) series.

IQAir gas series is the cadillac of home smoke eater. The strength lies on its unparalleled construction which does not allow any leakage of dirty air out of the purifier, as well as the use of high quality filters. You can be sure you get clean air with this purifier. The purification process employed by the IQAir Gas Purifier can be divided into 3 stages:

• prefilter stage which removes the bulk of particulates
• carbon and chemical filter stage which removes small gases including odor-producing gases. The amount of carbon in this stage is large enough (over 11 lb) to handle frequent smoking.
• HEPA filter behind the carbon filter to ensure there is no dust coming back into the room.

Each filter in this air purifier can be changed independently so when the time comes to change the prefilter, you can take the prefilter out and change it. This way, there is no need to change the other more expensive filters unless they need replacing. In addition, this gas air purifier is pretty quiet and also has a filter monitor so that there is no guess work when it comes to changing the filter. It is suitable for a room up to 1000 sq feet and cost over $1000.

NQ Clarifier Air Purifier

NQ Clarifier air purifier is also one top-of-the-line smoke air purifier. You can either get the machine with UV filter or the one which has no UV filter. The one with the UV filter has five stages of cleaning: carbon-impregnated prefilter stage, carbon filter stage with 15 lb of carbon, HEPA filter stage, UV lamp stage and finally carbon post filter stage to ensure no contaminants ever gone back into the room. In addition this purifier is energy efficient, has filter change indicator light, quite portable (it has casters, so that it is easily moved around) and is pretty quiet so that it can be used in the bedroom. It's still not as quiet as the Blue Air purifier, but it's more quiet than other purifier. NQ Clarifier air purifier is suitable for room around 1200 sq feet.

Austin Air Healthmate Plus series

The plus series of Austin Air Healthmate air purifier employs a series of filters, just like the IQAir Gas series. This gas purifier consists of two prefilters, one carbon-zeolite filter worth 15 lb of absorbant for gas removal, and a HEPA filter to ensure there is no particulates coming back to the room. In addition, this smoke eater is very economical to run - it consumes little energy and the filter has a long life. However, unlike the IQAir gas series, this air purifier is pretty much a no-frill air purifier. It does not have any filter monitor and it is not quiet. Hence it is not suitable for a bedroom. This purifier can be used for a room up to 600 sqfeet.

Allerair

Allerair is another good home smoke eater which use prefilters, antimicrobial filters, 18 lb carbon filters which can be further customized to meet your needs and a HEPA filter to clean up a room. You can also add in UV germicidal light if you want to. In addition, Allerair air purifier is very energy efficient. However, this machine is not one of the quietest machine in the market. So this is definitely unsuitable for a bedroom. In addition, it does not have filter change indicator, so you have to guess when your filter needs changing. This purifier can be used for a room up to 923 sq feet.

Happy shopping !

Other articles on smoke air purifier:

• Air Purifier for Moderate Amount of Cigarette Smoke.
• General Guide for Shopping Cigarette Smoke Air Purifier

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