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IQAir Health Pro Plus
Written by: Michael Mardings
The IQAir can be purchased at Sylvane, 800-934-9194.
There are some devices that make a man feel like THE man. It's more than a
simple tool, but the kind of tool that causes him to run into the streets and proclaim his superior powers to his neighbors. "You may have a shovel, but I have the Ultra-180X Shovel!" Sometimes the feeling is completely unjustified and other times they come by in awe.
I picked up the box for the IQAir Health Pro and my fiance, Maria, looked at me stunned and slightly confused. It was massive. I was always impressed by the Brookstone-type air cleaners and felt that such things would certainly clear up my asthma. However, the IQAir doesn't look like Brookstone's long and slender device, it looks more like a large truck. A hummer if you will. It's big. It's large. It's big. I mean REALLY big.
There was a slight sense of disappointment. I won't lie. One of my friends had the Brookstone device and it looked like a spaceship. In addition, the infomercials were ever so snazzy. I first made some calls.
"Hello, I'd like to buy an air cleaner... you don't recommend the Brookstone? It doesn't do the job? Well, hypothetically, if you were to buy one, which would you buy? Oh, the IQAir. How interesting."
It turns out the Brookstone does one thing rather well; it looks really good. What it doesn't do well is clean the air. The IQAir not only cleans the air, but it also makes sure the dirty air and dust suffers for intruding your house. While most air cleaners claim to filter only dust and other particles, the IQAir has multiple layers to filter particles that others do not. It takes out the dust, the viruses, the gas; the whole nine yards.
As the salesman at my local housewares store said, "While the competitors clear out 10, 20, maybe 30% of the dust, this will take out 99%."
Upon opening the box and reading the instructions, the IQAir, in fact, comes
with a sheet showing how it was tested and its individual performance. It tells the amount of air it cleans at each of its six speeds. Now that you see the journey to get here, how did it fare? How did this hold up?
Well, the first thing I did was play the instructional DVD. Yes, this comes with it's own instructions via DVD. Flip it over, add the wheels and pop the batteries
into the remote and you're ready.
There are a few million ways to control the device, but here are the basics:
You can leave it running on high-powered mode for a few hours and do a quick cleaning or you can set the timer for it to run only from 9-5 or whatever times you'd like. You also can have it shut off automatically after only a few hours.
In addition, it is so detailed that it has a timer to tell you when each of it's three filters need to be replaced; 4,814 more hours to go. I love that feature as I have had one filter that I left running for two weeks and then I didn't touch it again for a year. Did I really need to replace the filter after only three months?
Anyway, I took the device into my bedroom to see how I would seem. On the first night, I slept without problems. My entire house smelled cleaner, even after blasting open paint cans, cooking fish and burning funny-smelling candles. Yes, I blasted it with each of these devices and then some. I spent hours trying to crack it and it wouldn't budget. No matter what odor and foulness I threw at it, it kept on chugging away. I even sanded down an old coffee table I was working on. No problem. I moved it to my garage and used the paint thinner on the table. In an hour, the garage was fine.
If we rated products on a scale, IQAir Health Pro would be a five-star product. No complaints at all. It's not sleek and slim like the "other brand," however, this does something that no other air cleaner that I've had ever does. It works. It works like a racehorse and keeps on working. I like this a lot more than having a pretty spinning thing in my house while continuing to suffer with asthma.
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