HolmesŪ HAP242-UC HEPA-type Desktop Air Purifier
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Tools and Hardware Reviews of HolmesŪ HAP242-UC HEPA-type Desktop Air Purifier
Customer Review: Not a true HEPA but I like it.
Summary: 4 Stars
Saw this at a cheaper price at Target -plus- I thought it was a true HEPA from the description but it turned out to be just HEPA-type. However, I like the desktop design and it operates quietly at the lowest speed.Customer Review: Not that quiet
Summary: 3 Stars
We have this product in all the bedrooms in our house. We all have allergies and really needed to do something besides medicate aggresively. I wonder how much such a small unit can do, especially since I have been reading websites which state that tabletop size air cleaners do not have much impact on air quality. I also find the noise level rather high, given the small size of the unit. Sometimes I can hardly hear my children when they need me in the night, the fans are so loud. The grilles on the front also collect a lot of dust and have to be cleaned periodically. Overall I would say that unless the area to be cleaned is the size of a large closet or an office cubicle, I highly doubt that this air cleaner is big enough to be effective.Customer Review: Cleans, but too bad not itself as well..
Summary: 3 Stars
It's affordable, does what it's supposed to (clean the air) but in the process gets itself filthy. It's almost impossible to clean, so unless you don't care about having a dirty appliance in the middle of your room all the time, I would suggest finding an easier to clean model. Also, the filter seems to get glogged up pretty fast.. maybe I just live in super dusty conditions or something, but plan on spending just as much on filters every 3-6 months as on the unit itself.Customer Review: the first one's (almost) free...
Summary: 2 Stars
from new york, new yorkthere are 2 major things wrong with this (and every?) holmes product i have been 'duped' into using. it is much like when you buy a printer, the initial unit is a mere downpayment for all the cartridges you'll need if you use it 'normally.' the holmes air purifiers i have been intermittently stuck with do help clean the air and thanks to the standardization of the hepa filter (and no thanks to holmes), work fairly well. the downside is they are extremely difficult to clean (i think i used an entire package of qtips) and you have to take the damned thing apart yourself to do so (hence i cleaned mine once and dumped it) if you like cleanliness, after using it a few months, once you look inside the thing you'll be prompted to do likewise. the reason it's popular seems attributable to one factor: it is cheap. seems like a good idea at the time. then u start buying the filters (approx $15 or more each) and attempting to maintain it and realize what a poorly thought out piece o' junk the actual unit really is. be smart, spend more and get an air cleaner from a company that cares whether or not the unit can be cleane (slantfin, bionaire, honeywell). hope this helps save others from a dirty business.
Customer Review: Just... no.
Summary: 2 Stars
I don't know what it is, but this air purifier just doesn't seem to work worth beans. I've got another, slightly older Holmes purifier (HAP-240) that for some reason seems to work a lot better, although significantly louder. With this one, the air goes through the filter and comes out the other end as designed, but you just don't get a sense of cleaner air in the room -- there's almost zero odor removal. The filter appears to fit tightly, so it just doesn't make much sense. Could be this model uses a different, less effective filter than the aforementioned model.
Either way, I don't recommend this product at all -- despite the fact that it runs very quietly on its lower settings -- it just doesn't really do what it was designed to do. Very disappointed.