Prepare for Summer Heat & Smoke

by Steve Morris
June 16, 2023
on Zoom

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Preparing for Heat and Smoke

How to Create a Clean Room

Creating a “clean room” is one of the most effective ways to ensure you are breathing healthy air during a smoke emergency. In the following video, a PSU professor shows how to create one, and shows test results that demonstrate how well a clean room can work.

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Creating a Clean Room in your Home

Consumer Report Ratings of Air Purifiers

View the ratings of a number of air purifiers by clicking this link

Build Your Own Box Fan Air Purifier

The how-to article using one MERV 13 filter as an Air Purifier is at this link.

An improvement to the original design using multiple MERV 13 filters is at this link.

And an even better version that uses a cardboard gasket is at this link.

This Old House did a video on the do-it-yourself box filter at this link.

Here is a video on building a do-it-yourself air purifier for about $40 from an outfit that built one of these and measured the resulting particulate reduction.