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Article: Room-air purifier keeps allergies away.
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- The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)
- Article date:
- June 20, 2003
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Byline: Alan J. Heavens
I don't usually test products for more than a week, but I decided to give the Holmes HEPA room-air purifier several weeks before I wrote about it.
Why? Indoor-air quality. You can buy a dream house but if it doesn't breathe properly, you've wasted a lot of money and are probably making yourself sick to boot.
We have a whole-house air cleaner. I wrote about it earlier in the spring, and I attributed to it a reduction in allergy suffering as well as our new ability to grow indoor plants during the late fall and winter.
But the whole-house cleaner works in concert with the heating and air-conditioning systems, and ...