itscommonsense's Full Review: Whirlpool Whispure 510 Air Purifier
Pure fresh air with whisper quiet operation is what I was promised by Whirlpool and that's exactly what I got.
Our 7 year old two story home was extremely dusty from the day we moved in a couple of years ago. With 2400 sq. feet to clean, three kids, and a full time job outside the home, the constant dust problem was frustrating, and time consuming. I tried dusting every other day, more frequent HVAC air conditioning filter changes, making the kid's keep the doors and windows shut, and replacing the seals around all our doors, all to no avail. The dust just kept winning! You could literally write your name on top of the furniture within hours after I dusted. Several people in our family developed allergies. My husband and I missed a lot of work taking kids and ourselves to the doctor for sniffles and headaches.
The family bedrooms are all downstairs, with gas HVAC and a separate heat pump system upstairs. My husband and I smoke in our bonus room/office upstairs. We chose that room because we figured the separately ducted heat pump system would help confine the smell of smoke to the upstairs. My mom gave me her Honeywell air purifier to put upstairs in our office and we started using it that day. We had to turn off the Honeywell air purifier whenever we got a phone call. It was horribly loud, big - and ugly to boot. That night we ran the Honeywell air purifier, the kids called us to come downstairs because they heard a bad noise they said sounded like a train and were afraid. We knew the air purifier made a bad racket in the room with us but didn't realize just how loud it was in the kid's rooms below us. It indeed sounded like a freight train…a really loud, low frequency, rumbling. Some strange resonance thing was happening with the Honeywell air purifier that amplified the already bad noise to a uproar. There was no way the kid's could sleep with that clamor over their heads. So we tried running it during the day only for a month. It was just as dusty as before upstairs. Out went the Honeywell air purifier.
A friend recommended we try the Whispure air purifier, made by Whirlpool, telling how quiet it was. We got the largest capacity and plugged it in upstairs. The change began overnight actually, we found we could run the air purifier all the time, even at night. Since it made almost no perceptible noise on low, we keep turning up the speed expecting to hit a speed setting where noise would be a problem. It didn't happen. On the highest (turbo) speed, the Whirlpool air purifier's sound was just a soft pleasantly reassuring whoosh of moving air. Within one day on turbo speed, the smell of tobacco smoke was noticeably less as we walked up the stairs. Within a week, I noticed less dust in the room, and didn't smell cigarette smoke at all on the stairwell or upstairs. There was absolutely no vibration, or resonance, or sound at all on the first floor above the children's rooms like with the big deafening ugly Honeywell air purifier. I'm a believer. All air purifiers are not created equally.
I have since placed a small Whirlpool air purifier in each family member's bedroom, and another of the larger ones in our connected living/dining/kitchen. We all feel much better and have decreased doctor's visits. Non-smoker's who visit us can't tell we have ever smoked in the house. The dust level in our home is under control. I'd recommend Whirlpool's quiet, air purifiers to anyone with a dust problem and especially if you even think you may have dust-related allergies. Pure fresh air with whisper quiet operation is what I was promised by Whirlpool and that's exactly what I got. I am extremely satisfied with my Whirlpool experience and thought you should know.
Air Purifierequipped With The Quiet Partner Systemfeatures A Cadrclean Air Delivery Rate Of 330 And Is Qualified By Energy Star. Works On Large Rooms ...More at Target
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