The BlueAir Pure 411 air purifier actually WORKS. There’s a rash of these gizmos around, but this award-winning freshener did the impossible and made my office less stuffy (not hard admittedly!)
Blueair Blue Pure 411 Air Purifier
£129, johnlewis.com
Can a gadget really fill the inside your home with the sort of crystalline, pure air you gulp down at the top of the Alps?
I often suspect that I am too messy, and my cat is too smelly, for me to ever truly know the answer to this question. Any air-purification gadget I try is facing a serious foe in the form of my office’s natural pungent fug.
There’s a rash of these things about, but BlueAir’s gizmos have won awards, removing airborne bacteria, chemicals and pollution from the air
But after I’d left the BlueAir Pure 411 running for a while, the room felt faintly electrified, with a cool, clean feeling. Standing near it, I felt more alive.
This may, of course, be the surge of hypochondria triggered by the fact that it claims to remove ‘mould spores’ from the air. I had no idea I was breathing them in in the first place.
There’s a rash of these things about, but BlueAir’s gizmos have won awards, removing airborne bacteria, chemicals and pollution from the air.
There’s no question that the Blue Pure made my office feel a little less stuffy (although that wasn’t hard). There are still slight notes of cat if you inhale deeply, but it’s a start…
There are various models in the range, from simpler push-button ones where you can adjust from low to high, to a no-holds-barred Wi-Fi connected model for the well-heeled hypochondriac.
I tend to take these things with a tiny pinch of salt, as they clearly are aimed at worriers, but there’s no question that the Blue Pure made my office feel a little less stuffy (although that wasn’t hard).
There are still slight notes of cat if you inhale deeply, but it’s a start…