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Airthings has their best home model, the View Plus for $210 instead of $299 for Black Friday. If you have AMEX for Small business saturday, that takes $5 more off via a statement credit.
https://www.airthings.com/view-plus
It reads out air quality with 7 sensors: Radon, particulate matter (PM2.5), Carbon dioxide (CO2), temperature, humidity, airborne chemicals (VOC), and air pressure. Optional app displays history of the room you have it in from current, to 24 hours, to week, to a month, to a year on a graph. I've attached a screen grab from our main room sensor particulate graph for the last 7 days so you can see what it looks like. Your graph will probably be more alarming if you haven't been managing air quality before you turn this on. Ours was initially crazy.
We use these as our main home air quality meters in the two rooms with the most concern - the main family room/kitchen, and my home office where I have a bunch of (enclosed) 3D printers. We have ARANET4 Co2 monitors (also on sale, for $141 here -
https://shop.aranet.com/north-ame...anet4-home) in the bedrooms as supplemental units. You would likely be SHOCKED how bad your air quality is, especially in a newer home built to be airtight without an AC system that blends in air from outside. And that poor air quality affects your cognition. Once you know how bad your air is, you can bring in air from outside in the evenings to improve your air quality through the day.
The Airthings unit is WiFi connected, made in Europe, NOT China, so fewer spying worries.
60 Minutes recently showed Airthings view sensors in new "clean office" buildings made by Amazon, Paramount, etc.
https://youtu.be/WxEssOeEsVk?si=n...M2Kb&t=509
REGISTER WITHIN 30 DAYS for a FIVE (5) YEAR WARRANTY:
https://www.airthings.com/legal/e...r-warranty
I've attached the California EPA Radon risk map. There is one for all 50 states online. Red bad, yellow less bad.
EDIT: Thanks lolopolo and Factorialize for the welcome code and AMEX SBS info.
EDIT2: WELCOME10 code is dead
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EDIT: It was 60 minutes 3 weeks ago. I made a post with a link, but am adding it here, too:
https://youtu.be/WxEssOeEsVk?si=
I do not know what the lifespan is on the various sensors, but given that carbon monoxide alarms for homes are rated at 10 years, I would say that is an absolute maximum for other sensors in this.
One thing I didn't mention is there's a small fan you can hear going off occasionally if the room is very quiet. I'm assuming it's to get more air across the sensors when it needs better flow for sampling. It's not loud, but it is audible in a very quiet room, like a bedroom at night.
The ultimate solution is to get an AC unit that can blend in outside air. Those are either code or about to become code for new construction in CA, but it was not even a thought when our house was built in 2000 when making the home as airtight as possible was thought to be the best. They're now finding out it's terrible for health.
So, when our AC unit fails, the new unit will have that outside air blending ability. Until then, the window fan/winix solution works fine.
We use the highest exhaust fan vent setting on the stove hood now when cooking and are looking into getting an induction cooktop to get rid of the gas stove emissions. The change in readings when cooking is EYE OPENING. I had no idea.
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Amazon also made a decision to make their search garbage and limit filtering so they can show you ads and paid promotion stuff that may not even relate to what you're looking for. It was a conscious choice because the ad revenue was more valuable than their customer experience.
Ridiculous.
CURRENTLY RESTOCKING Expect shipping first week of December
i have found randletters brands are fine (though you will see a *lot* of repetitive products, ofc). in most cases they're fine quality, generally on par with generics and occasionally better than name brand.
that said, there are product categories where generics are complete garbage, and air sensors are absolutely in that category (tbh a lot of electronics unless they are purely commodities or not something I need high reliability with (eg, an electric lint shaver))
oh and you do have a good general point that amazon does a bad job of, like, being a marketplace because they don't have any functionality to make shopping through that flood of identical products an efficient process
amazon's been walking back the "world's most customer-centric company" a lot but the past handful of years they've gone hard on killing off anything done for the customer instead of "make numbers go up"
otoh it's way better than google shopping, which highlights literal we-just-take-your-money-and-send-nothing-lol scams
What's even more interesting (to me) is that this product is assembled in Tunisia. I had to look up where that country is. First time I've had a product was made from there.
Update:
Free warranty extension from 12 months to 5 years by registering within 30 days of purchase:
https://cms.airthings.c
What's even more interesting (to me) is that this product is assembled in Tunisia. I had to look up where that country is. First time I've had a product was made from there.
Update:
Free warranty extension from 12 months to 5 years by registering within 30 days of purchase:
https://cms.airthings.c
Thanks just registered mine.
Got it yesterday, shocked by the pm2.5 levels and we haven't used the gas stove in days. I've got an air purifier in the same room and cannot get this value to a "safe" level at all
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Got it yesterday, shocked by the pm2.5 levels and we haven't used the gas stove in days. I've got an air purifier in the same room and cannot get this value to a "safe" level at all
https://www.airthings.c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80r9qwJ
Not sure but thanks for the heads up. Curious if anyone compared this to Amazon's device. Obviously that doesn't have Radon detection feature