Honeywell Permanent Filter Air Purifier for Home, 1268Ft² Rooms in 1 hour, Bluetooth, Reduces Dust, Pollen, Pet Dander, Odors, Smoke, Washable Filters, Black, HFD360

So far so good! Being able to wash and rinse a filter as opposed to buying hepa filters repeatedly and having a machine to reduce wildfire smoke in a large indoor area with full control over the device for under 200 usd? Outstanding!

I know this is long but my soapbox is that this is SO much cheaper by cost over time AND so much better it's a no brainer. If you can spend $40 more upfront ($135 cost) it will cost more than $300 less over four years (ie., it will still only cost $135 total while the other one $440. That forty bucks saves you so much money. And BESIDES that the product itself is so much better in everyway.FIrst: WAY cheaper than ANYTHING because you don't have to replace filters every six months. This one you wash somehow. The replacement on the other filters can be $50 a pop. At $130 rather than $90 for other highly rated product, just ONE replacement makes the other product more expensive. They guarantee the filter will last 4 years at least (don't know if can buy replacement then?). So if you keep the other purified for four years and use it fulltime, the cost of replacement filters if $350 more. This one: ZERO. So $135 versus $440. You do the math. A little more upfront and the total cost is more than 50% cheapter. And this handles way more air. Is quieter. And then clearly this is such a better product anyway on all the other areas besides price too. I know i sound like cheerleader but have needed filters like this for decades and always had inferior products because I didn't know there were ones that aren't inferior.It is far more sturdy than expected. It is bigger than I expected but obviously can't be smaller to do it's job at the square footage it says it covers. Physics is physics.. It handles way more square feet than the $90 one I compared it to that requires replacement hepa filters every 6 months. I think twice as much. I looked up filters on Consumer reports (which given there are so many products and they are changing name and model constantly, test a small percentage of all of them.)This was ranked in top few. The other one I considered -- forget which one -- was $90. So this is $45 more than that -- but look below. Handles way more air/square footage. WAY quieter. Way more attractive. Way better constructed. I believe this product will last 5 years, the others if you've seen genersally might last two before something goes wrong (the one I STILL have is old and something happened quickly to make it way louded by something rattling inside the fan. I doubt this will happen with this product because unlike the old filter that blue left and right I think this one blows up and down.)I got the black on eand for this kind of thing it is attractive. WAY more attractive than competitors. The touch screen on top is classy. It is SO much quieter than the (superold honeywell) purifier I already had. Of course there will be noise -- it needs to pull air through and thus needs a fan. But even loudest setting is quieter than my old filter's lowest setting. There 5 different settings for amount of air it pulls through. My old product was only low and high. They have a setting called 'germs' and another kooky one and I have no idea if they are legit. BUT the consumer reports evaluated the efficacy of the filters at different settings, and this was the only one that got Good reviews for low volume (and it has excellent for high.) The competitor products they basically said you shouldn't even use the low setting as it hardly did anything.They have an 'ambient' light button I could figure out what it was doing. There is a light sort of recesses at the bottom of the tower that glows blue. You can turn high, low or off. It strikes me as corny and unnecessary but then I thought about it as a night light. It has super efficeint rating -- says takes as much power as a light bulb. OH. Among all the things the other products don't do, IT OSCILATES. Construction seems excellent.Every company should be selling products like this. The washable filter is a million times better than paying 50 bucks every six months

I purchased this based on a review/rating by that very well known consumer organization, and — performance wise — it’s even better than the review I read, I believe. However, the top-mounted control panel is lighted all of the time when the power is on, and there is apparently no way to dim the control panel lighting. I feel that’s really curious for a device designed to be used in the bedroom at night. I will probably throw a small towel over it at night, but I might return it if I decide I just can’t live with that shortcoming.

This air purifier is a champ. It's very quiet-almost silent. The air smells noticeably fresh. Consumer Reports put it in a lower ranking than some but it's excellent. The washable filters will save at least $100 a year over temporary replaceable filters.

5 STARS!

Great product

Very poorly designed unit. Does not filter as well as it claims and does not last.Let’s start with filtering.There are two filters in the unit one is a cheap mesh filter with small hexagonal shaped holes which cleans the air of large particles prior to the second filter. The second filter is a static filter made out of what looks like the plastic equivalent of cardboard only much thicker with many small straight channels for the air to go through. Its suppose to filter the air of even smaller particles. Be careful when removing this second filter as it is charged to several hundred volts and will give you a nasty shock if your finger happens to be near the metal contacts when you remove it to clean. I purchased this unit in October 2015 and have cleaned the filters at least 5 times. I also run the unit for about 6-7 hours a night and then turn it off before I leave to work. Out of those 5 times I’ve cleaned the filters the first stage filter was always messy which leads me to believe it’s doing its job. The static filter on the other hand would always appear like nothing was trapped on it. I even looked closely at it with a magnifying lens and didn’t see any dust. If this filter is really working well then the discharge air side should be clean right? Wrong! Looking closer at the squirrel cage blowers I noticed a very light layer of dust caking the blades! This leads me to believe that the static filter in this product is absolutely useless. I would have had better results with a fiber glass filter.Now let’s go over durability.This unit simply does not last. After 3 months of operation it began making a rumbling noise. At first I didn’t mind as I do like a little white noise while I sleep, but then it slowly got louder as the days went on. It’s been 11 months since I purchased the unit and now it’s too loud and erratic for me to even sleep. I can only explain the noise as a very loud rattle together with random squeaks and squeals. I’m very hands on when it comes to fixing things and took the air cleaner completely apart. I had a hunch the bearings on the blower were bad and I spun the squirrel cage to see how balanced it was. Immediately I noticed it was not balanced as it wobbled about the shaft. I then removed the squirrel cage from the motor shaft and then took apart the motor housing to attempt to replace the bearings. Sure enough the bearings were shot as they had lots of run out and rattled when handled. All I can say is this product is too cheap and worthless to repair. The housing is casted and there are no features to ensure the two bearings are concentric with each other like on more expensive motors, so even if I did replace the bearings with something of better quality it would have failed again. I would of expected better from Honeywell and with the high price commanded, but this is a piece of #*#@ for an air cleaner!