What do you think about the 'Kyoto AirPure' air purifier?

Why does my air purifier only blow air out sideways?

• Air only comes out of one side of my hepa air purifier, if you put your hand in front of it you can't even feel any air coming out of the middle, only the far extreme of one side. To feel the main breeze of air you actually have to put your hand completely to the side of the purifier, where there isnt even a grate for air to come out of anymore, and it feels like the air is coming out of the solid plastic, which is really weird. Is this normal?

• Answer:

  Your question sounds pretty weird. It would make more sense if you told us what type of air purifier you are using. Air always comes in through 1 point in the air purifier and out 1 or more places once it has gone through the air filters. This is what supposed to happen. You shouldn't feel "air" where the air is being sucked into. Now if you feel air coming out of places on the air purifier it obviously shouldn't that means air is escaping the process of going through the air filters and therefore makes it a very bad product and you shouldn't use it anymore. Depending on what you need and what kind of money you have to spend will get you what you need. Buying an air purifier can help a lot with the battle with dust, pollen, pet dander and even mold spores. The one thing you should remember is many of these air purifiers are not as good as you think they are. A good air purifier costs a bit of money and if you are on a budget their aren't too many that can get the job done especially for a wide area. Since you only want to clean 1 room, which is an optimal size for most air purifiers you can get the Whirlpool 510 or the Honeywell 50250, which both have "True HEPA Air Filters". These air filters stop 99.97% of particles down to 0.3 microns. This may mean nothing too you, but a human hair is 10 microns and dust and pollen is around 1 to 4 microns in size. So it will catch things even smaller than what you are going after. Most regular "HEPA-like or HEPA-type" are not real HEPA air filters and these are the ones you find at WALMART. You can guess how good most of those are. generally they stop 90% of particles down to 1 micron, which may sound good, but when you barely see a change in your problem you will start thinking what the problem is. Finally if you want some real cleaning of dust, pollen, pet dander, mold spores and hazardous VOCs two good air purifier companies are IQ Air and Austin Air. Their room air purifiers start at around $400 dollars, but for good reason. Many people don't have air quality problems this bad in their home to justify this purchase, but if you want to see a difference this will do it. For reference the IQ Air purifier's air filter stops 98.5% of particles down to 0.03 microns in size.