Shark Whole Home HEPA Air Purifier, 1400 Sq Ft Coverage

Just to give you two real life tests. After having it a week. I got some work done in the master bathtub. Plumber had to cut time with a diamond blade and create an access hole to remove and replace a Roman tub trim / faucet. Well his shop vac filter was loose. Fine particles blasted into our room creating a horrible cloud. I yelled at him to stop after realizing 30 seconds was enough to look like my room was on fire. I turned on this big shark. It had as red a ring and 0% air quality. Put it on high. It took 3 hours , but my air quality was back to 100 and a nice calm blue ring. Today. I fired up my new weather smoker outside. Seasoned it. Got it to 500. Went in and out of the opposite side of the house. An. Hour later I go to bed. House smells like nice pellet grill smoke but not horrible or the house is on fire. Time for bed. Turn on the shark. Red ring. 64%. This sucker sensed my treager smoke filtering all through the house. It’s phenomenal.

Bought one of these in November 2023 and a second one shortly afterwards. Controls are conveniently placed on top where you can easily see them. We programmed the one in our bedroom to run on low at night so it doesn’t wake us. I don’t pay a lot of attention to the sensors and I am not sure how accurate they are. The proof for me is the debris I vacuum off the unit’s filters (including the HEPA) once a month, which is considerable. I could really tell the difference in air quality after using it for just a few days. To test out the first unit, we deep cleaned a particularly dusty room and ran it there to see how well it would cut particulates/dust. It made a huge difference. Before we got the Shark, and even with our other air filters running, we could write our name on furniture within a single day or so of dusting (old house). This unit has dramatically cut the need to dust and vacuum in this room, and we definitely breathe better. I have tried several other expensive brands including Blueair. The latter is much larger and very loud by comparison and just does not work as well unless I run it on high nonstop. The Shark is a very intelligent design. It pulls air in like a vortex through fins on the sides that direct air across a wide swath of filter material. Kind of reminds me of hood scoops on cars. Most other devices I have tried have little holes on the sides and most seem to draw area through the filter material. The Blueair units that we have pull air from the floor surface through the middle of the unit and expel from the top. None that we have tried previously are as effective as the Shark. I have had excellent luck with Shark vacuums and own three of those, so I was thrilled to discover they made an air filter that works as well as their vacuums. Super impressed with this particular product and they are both working great after 4 months. We don’t use the “odor control” disc as I don’t like the indoor air pollution of air fresheners. You can turn them to an off position but we just don’t install them at all and it doesn’t affect operation. I don’t understand some of the critical comments about how these don’t work. You are not going to get a “clean room” research lab quality environment for plus or minus $300 and it might have something to do with placement. If you have smells that have permeated your walls and flooring, this is not going to fix that. This is a well priced consumer product that works great for most needs if you are looking to pull particulate matter out of the air. We have one in a very large eat in kitchen/family room and another in a master bedroom. They handle the dander and debris of several dogs and two birds plus typical household dust very well.

Super easy to unbox and set up. Great quality! Quiet operation. The air quality feedback indicator is pretty cool. Worth paying a bit more than other brands which require more accessory purchases during ownership. Would recommend.