Costco B&M are running a promotion through July 30th: $30 'Instant Off" manufacturer's promotion for a full-size Honeywell 'Enviracare' permanent-HEPA air purifier, $129 at the register. Not sure if this is a regional versus national program, but verified in at least 4 states. This is the best-ever price for a full-size, Honeywell permanent filter purifier: the next-best current price is $158 (Free shipping) from Amazon, or $169 take-away at your local Home Depot.
If you're not familiar with them, the Honeywells are the undisputed champs when it comes to bang-for-buck air purification. They have terrific CADR ratings (300+), and are suitable for large rooms (400+ square feet). They feature a 2-stage system, with an Activated-Carbon pre-filter and a large, rotary HEPA main stage. Most feature permanent HEPA filters, which can be easily cleaned with a vacuum cleaner a couple times per year, versus competitors that need replacement filters for $30 to $80 per pop. The Honeywells are perrenial "Best Buys" at Consumer Reports (performance plus lowest operating costs), and consistently finish in the top 3 or 4 compared to purifiers costing much more.
If you've never experienced one, you are in for a treat: odors and alleriges cease to be an issue. Even if you have no particular allergies, Sleep is blissful, with no snoring, snarking, or sore-throat wakeup. For allergy sufferers, they are the ticket to heaven. You will notice an immediate difference. You can insert your "Ionic Breeze" where the sun don't shine and claim you feel those positive ions streaming out, but the Honeywells are the real deal. For whole-house coverage, use a $17 Filtrete A/C filter in the air handler, and a Honeywell in the bedroom and/or office.
The cost for all this bliss is noise, and lots of it. Honeywells work by circulating immense quatities of air, and these units on high speed sound a lot like a cheap window-AC unit on high. There are even You-Tube videos that demonstrate the noise levels: it's like a cross-country flight on a 727. Unfortunately, they don't do much at lower speeds; Consumer Reports' tests verify that performance at medium and low settings is negligible. Most folks come to love the noise: for bedroom use, the "white noise" can be very soothing. Myself, I wear foam earplugs, and find the background noise not an issue at all. For this reason, most folks use them almost exclusively for bedrooms, and it is also possible to run the purifier all day in a closed room, and shut it down (or run at slower speed) when the room is occupied.
A note about model number: the most common Honeywell available is the 50250. The one at Costco seems identical to the 50250, but is marked as a '50300'. This is a discontinued model number, but when it was available featured performance better than the 50250. The specs listed on the Costco box seem to indicate slightly higher performance than the 50250, as well. In any case. $129 is an awesome price for a top-line HEPA unit. Let me know if you do a side-by-side comparison with the 50250.
If you're not familiar with them, the Honeywells are the undisputed champs when it comes to bang-for-buck air purification. They have terrific CADR ratings (300+), and are suitable for large rooms (400+ square feet). They feature a 2-stage system, with an Activated-Carbon pre-filter and a large, rotary HEPA main stage. Most feature permanent HEPA filters, which can be easily cleaned with a vacuum cleaner a couple times per year, versus competitors that need replacement filters for $30 to $80 per pop. The Honeywells are perrenial "Best Buys" at Consumer Reports (performance plus lowest operating costs), and consistently finish in the top 3 or 4 compared to purifiers costing much more.
If you've never experienced one, you are in for a treat: odors and alleriges cease to be an issue. Even if you have no particular allergies, Sleep is blissful, with no snoring, snarking, or sore-throat wakeup. For allergy sufferers, they are the ticket to heaven. You will notice an immediate difference. You can insert your "Ionic Breeze" where the sun don't shine and claim you feel those positive ions streaming out, but the Honeywells are the real deal. For whole-house coverage, use a $17 Filtrete A/C filter in the air handler, and a Honeywell in the bedroom and/or office.
The cost for all this bliss is noise, and lots of it. Honeywells work by circulating immense quatities of air, and these units on high speed sound a lot like a cheap window-AC unit on high. There are even You-Tube videos that demonstrate the noise levels: it's like a cross-country flight on a 727. Unfortunately, they don't do much at lower speeds; Consumer Reports' tests verify that performance at medium and low settings is negligible. Most folks come to love the noise: for bedroom use, the "white noise" can be very soothing. Myself, I wear foam earplugs, and find the background noise not an issue at all. For this reason, most folks use them almost exclusively for bedrooms, and it is also possible to run the purifier all day in a closed room, and shut it down (or run at slower speed) when the room is occupied.
A note about model number: the most common Honeywell available is the 50250. The one at Costco seems identical to the 50250, but is marked as a '50300'. This is a discontinued model number, but when it was available featured performance better than the 50250. The specs listed on the Costco box seem to indicate slightly higher performance than the 50250, as well. In any case. $129 is an awesome price for a top-line HEPA unit. Let me know if you do a side-by-side comparison with the 50250.
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