Hunter 30756 PermaLife Tower Air Purifier with 3-Speed Fan

Comment: I love Hunter air purifiers because they work!
I now have 5 & I can always find filters.I run then 24/7.
I tried 3 Oreck & 3 Ionic Breeze Quadra & they were crap plus cost a lot more!
You can't go wrong with Hunter!

Comment: I just got this unit yesterday from HSN. The first hour I was loving this machine. It appeared to work as expected, recirculating the air and has a variety of settings and modes. Well that didn't last long because for some reason while using the ionizer feature a clicking or popping sound started. Continuously and never stopping. I called the tech support in the manual and they suggested that I return the unit because there is most likely hair caught in the unit.

Now that really disturbs me. If hair can cause this unit to create an annoying sound as the one it's making then I don't even want it. I mean I was really looking forward to seeing the benefits of an air purifier.

So most likely I will send this unit back and see if they can send me another. But it really is a shame that a unit this size and cost can easily be affected by something as simple as hair.

Comment: 1) Tower air purifier is somewhat noisy on its fast setting and a distraction on the "Turbo" setting.
2) Would like to be able to purchase an extra cleanable hepa filter but Hunter makes it difficult to buy. Their website and the product
manual which comes with the unit doesn't even mention the possiblity of buying an extra in case the supplied "lifetime" one is accidently damaged during cleaning or handling.
3) The automatic guage which tells you when to replace the prefilter and the when to clean the main hepa filter works on the accumulated time the unit has been running since the last replacement or cleaning. This may cause you to be late in doing maintaince on the filters if the unit is filtering air that has more particulates per unit/volume than what the air quality engineers designed the unit to treat.

Comment: This product does just what it said it would do.
Cleans the air and makkes it easier to breath.
Also makes the room smell a lot better.

Comment: This purifier has all but kept my pet allergy at bay and has collected a large amount of dust/debris/animal hair that's been flying around in my air system. I leave it on all day and night.

The prior review stated that a ring at the base destroyed their carpet. This product is designed to gather in dirty air and spit out fresh air - not all of the dust is going to get pulled in and some WILL collect at the base - but unless you vacuum once per year, this is no problem at all. Just vacuum your carpet regularly.

I have light carpet (Mohawk I think) and it's fine. There is a ring where the unit was sitting, but this is from the base sitting in one spot for a while - much like a table leaves an indent in the carpet that comes up after a time.

This product does NOT get 5 starts because the filters are hard to come by. I have to order mine online since Home Depot / Lowes / Target / WalMart / PriceClub (and derivatives) do not carry it.

I've also seen other sites that say the controls are difficult. It's like a cheap car with automatic transmission from the 80's - 3 speeds and an overdrive (psuedo 4th speed).

Oh - and it comes with a remote - how can you go wrong?

Finally - the price. Amazon's price is ridiculous - Home Depot and Lowes regularly sell these things for $180. Occasionally they have 50% off sales. So, get the filters online, but definitely buy the thing in a store.