Austin Air HealthMate Plus Air Purifier, Black - Advanced 4-Stage Filtration Air Purifiers For Home with Activated Carbon & Zeolite - Ideal as Air Purifiers for Bedroom or any Large room, Model B450

Fantastic filtration system! This is the 2nd one I’ve owned and it removes odors fast! The 3 levels allows for faster odor elimination and it’s quiet at level 1 that I keep it running all the time.

Love this! I baught 2. One for my bedroom and one for my living room. They are really helping with the new furniture off gassing. I still had to get rid of my bed frame because it was MDF and pressboard and my face was right by the headboard all night. The filter could not filter the air between the head board and my face between each inhale. Although, a fan might have helped if I could have tolerated the wind on my face. Regardless, this filter is great for the MDF electric fireplace (since I don't put my face against that one), new sofa, new area rug , and new accent chairs (all in the living room), oh and new kitchen table and chairs and my new to me used MDF and pressboard desk located in my bedroom. Suggestion: Don't sell everything and start over. Just beg you mom for all of your grandmothers furnature (live and learn). But, these filters are a life saver! On high they are a bit loud. So after the initial air clearing phase, we now turn them down when we are in the room. We turn them on high when we are not using the room (eg living room when sleeping and bedroom when awake) and every time we leave the house. (FYI, before all of this new Furnature, I did not know about chemical sensativity. So, you might be more sensative than I. Still these are great for the appropriately sized room.)

I have a nice apartment, and my neighbor has a heavy pot smoking habit. This machine (cranked on high) will remove 90% + of pot smell leeching into my space. In my case, the smoke smell was seeping through the wall that divides our units. My neighbor does not share any ventilation ducts with me and is completely walled off. I tried (2) other Levoit air purifiers (300 and 400) before landing on this one. They were a joke and did not remove the smell. This unit, the Austin Healthmate Plus with 15lbs of activated carbon, actually works. I stuck it in the corner where the smell seeps in, and leave it on low or medium all the time. The unit is a bit loud on high, and the fan seems to "flutter" a bit on low/medium. If you are buying this, you care more about clean air than you do a very slight flutter in the acoustics. You are paying for the commercial quality air filter. This unit is powerful enough to clean all the air in my 1200 square foot space on medium. There is a noticeably neutral smell throughout the apartment if I leave it on high. When my neighbor is actively smoking and the machine is on medium, I can smell something slight. I then turn the machine on high and the smell goes away. If I turn the machine off I can start to smell it again within 5 minutes, so I know it works. I think this is the best tool to regain control of your air if you are struggling with a neighbor's smoke. Before I got this I was coughing/sneezing, and it was psychologically distressing since my bedroom is where the problem originates. Completely worth it in my opinion. Also, apparently the relative humidity in your space should not exceed 60%. Excess moisture will react with the potassium iodide impregnated carbon filter, and that will apparently reduce its life. Only the Healthmate PLUS has potassium iodide in the filter. I don't know how well this machine would handle direct smoke in the same space. Anyway, now I don't have to move, and I can think about something else besides what my neighbor is smoking.

I have really been struggling in my remodeled house with vocs. This IS the answer you are looking for if you are having a similar situation. It is life changing for those of us who are sensitive to vocs. Buy it! Buy it now!! HEPA filters alone will do nothing for vocs. Solid construction. Arrived on time. I just bought my second one. Will likely buy 3 total as I have a large house. Psychologically not suffering anymore is AMAZING! I named my first one Steve…. Big price, way bigger value!!

Let's face it. This is pricey. But if you need SVOC and VOC cleanup, this works. It made a noticeable difference in the air when I needed it. Without it, my chest was burning. With it, I felt much better. Amazon's return policy is good for this, better than if one buys it elsewhere. That gave me the confidence to try it, and I'm glad I did.

I Live in a clean apartment with a disgusting next door neighbor who smokes cigarettes all the time and it leaks into my apartment through the dividing wall. I got this specifically to battle that, which it does a decent job of doing , the severity of the leak depends how much my neighbor chain smokes and his location in his unit, but 80% of the time on medium setting the Austin system is enough to contain the smell to just the leaking point maybe with 5-10 sq ft. During more intense smoking sessions the unit must be on high to have same effect. During the absolute worst smoking sessions (but rare) even on high the machine may stop 80-90% of the leak but a little odor and smoke will find its way into the rest of the unit. Still overall definitely worth the purchase as 3 over months later the 15 lbs of carbon/zeolite is not saturated and still smells fresh which I certainly cannot say about the TWO winix 5500-2’s I was using before , they contain .8-1 lb of carbon and they worked well but only for a couple days and they would have complete odor breakthrough. Not the Austin! Over 3 months and air still smells like new !

Very happy with air purifier! Wish it didn’t blow so much air around, but so far noticed a very big difference.

Extremely loud. There’s no way any can realistically use this in a modern apartment.