Consumer reviews about the Quadra Air Purifier
Ever experienced listlessness, flue-like reactions, skin & eye irritations, difficulty in breathing and concentrating? These are but some of the physical manifestations of poor indoor air quality. Your home can actually be making you sick. According to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), many homes have airborne concentrations of toxins that are two to five times higher indoors than outdoors. At greatest health risk are children, the elderly, and those who are already ill. Couples who spend most of their time working from home likewise stand to suffer respiratory and non-respiratory disorders triggered by unhealthy air.
In light of these findings which have been publicly disseminated, people have been on the prowl for cleaning devices that may offer convenient help in creating cleaner, healthier dwellings. Cleaner air in one’s home can significantly change quality of life. We can definitely agree with that.
Coming to the aid of individuals in removing dust, ash, pet dander, and other allergens that pose health risks to home dwellers are ionic air purifiers. Such modern product technologies require some up-front money, although the healthier products are expected to last longer, require less long-term maintenance, and not increase energy bills. The biggest payoff is expected in the form of better health. Yet some product brands have lately been subject to some flak as far as living up to its claims of effectively removing dust, dander, and other irritants in enclosed indoor spaces is concerned. Such has been the case with the Quadra Air Purifier, whose undeniable appeal has had many consumers purchasing the product, but generating mixed reactions.
The Quadra Air Purifier is the modern, updated version of antiquated types of air purification systems that have been around for over a hundred years. Believe it or not, scientists have long been working on methods and techniques to address impure air. Nowadays, a blueprint for a healthier home is something most homeowners carefully think out with their architects. Dust that pervades the home environment, and chemical orders that linger for months may seem tolerable in the short term, but people who are sensitive to toxins stand to feel lousy and suffer impaired health long afterwards.
With the clamor for cleaner air going unabated, companies like Sharper Image have churned out innovations like its Ionic Series air purifiers to do the job of creating a noticeable improvement in air quality in many homes. Sharper Image’s Ionic Breeze Quadra air purifier features the OzoneGuard™ for an added level of air cleaning that instantly converts ozone by-product to oxygen molecules on contact.
Ionic Breeze products come with a removable front grill that features the OzoneGuard™. Since ionic purifiers use collection grids, users need not be troubled with replacement filters. All that needs to be done is wipe off the grid once or twice a month. Sharper Image encountered a serious challenge when Consumer Reports (basing findings on the industry standard for measuring clean-air delivery rate) ran magazine articles in 2002 which casted doubt on the ability of Ionic Breeze to reduce airborne particles. The company branded the claims as false and malicious and has since come out with product enhancements. The other problem raised by consumers is that when dust particles accumulate in the device, the inner plates of the air purifier tend to quickly lose much of their power to attract more particles.
All hope is not lost, though, and people remain optimistic that there will soon be a system that will address the kinks and help in the proper cleaning and purification of indoor air.