
Air cleaner for very small rooms
- Permanent HEPA filter
- Low price
- Small coverage area (maximum of 390 square feet)
- Noisy
- "Permanent" filter has to be replaced eventually
Owners and experts are generally fond of the Honeywell Enviracaire 50250-N air purifier, with two major caveats. First, this low-priced air purifier isn't meant for big rooms, and second, it's very noisy. Ed Sherbenou of Air-Purifier-Power.com, who praises the Honeywell's cleaning power, says he refuses to use it in his bedroom because of the noise. The Honeywell air purifier takes in air from all sides of its cylindrical design, expelling clean air out the top, but it doesn't pull as much air through its HEPA filter as more expensive models such as the IQAir HealthPro Plus (*Est. $900), experts say. The Honeywell's "permanent" HEPA filter should be vacuumed twice a year, but Sherbenou says it will eventually have to be replaced. The Honeywell also uses an odor-reducing carbon prefilter (*Est. $15) that should be replaced every three months. The consensus is that this model is fine for the price, but the Austin Air HealthMate (*Est. $450) is better.
The Honeywell Enviracaire 50250 series is listed among the 10 best air purifiers at Air-Purifier-Power.com, a retail site that goes into great depth about the pros and cons of various machines. It also pops up in ConsumerReports.org's comparison test of 36 room-sized air purifiers, although editors there test the disposable-filter model, not the permanent-filter one. The Enviracaire air purifier also receives a fair number of comments from owners posting to Amazon.com and Epinions.com and is one of the top-rated models.
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Air-purifier expert Ed Sherbenou owns a Honeywell 50250, and it shows in this illustrated review. He says the 50250 (and now the 50250-N, which adds a permanent HEPA filter) is well sealed and has a big filter. "I have seen 18-wheelers with smaller air filters than this," he notes. But it's so loud that he doesn't use it in his bedroom.
Review: Honeywell Air Purifier: 50250, Ed Sherbenou
2. ConsumerReports.orgDetails/Subscribe
The Honeywell Enviracaire 50250 is one of the 36 room air purifiers tested by ConsumerReports.org. By injecting allergens into a test room, then measuring particle removal on both high and low speeds, editors rate air purifiers for dust and smoke removal, ozone emission and noise level. This article evaluates the original model with a disposable HEPA filter, not the current permanent-filter 50250-N.
Review: Air Purifiers, Editors of ConsumerReports.org
3. Amazon.com
More than 180 owners post comments at Amazon.com about the Honeywell Enviracaire 50250-N (the page title says 50250, but describes the newer 50250-N with permanent HEPA filter). Most users are very satisfied -- praising the air purifier's effectiveness at ridding odors -- but again, there are complaints about noise.
Review: Honeywell 50250 99.97% Pure HEPA Round Air Purifier, Contributors to Amazon.com
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