Where Should You Put An Air Purifier In The Bedroom?
When it comes to air purifier placement, the bedroom deserves the most careful consideration of any room in the house. After all, it’s the room in which we spend most time, with the average American accumulating over 36 years in bed in their lifetime. To get the maximum benefits from the air purifier in your bedroom, it’s important to find a spot that is within your breathing zone and away from obstacles that impact its efficiency.
Think about it: we spend roughly one-third of our lives sleeping, making our bedrooms a crucial environment for our health and well-being. Clean air while we sleep can lead to better rest, reduced allergies, and improved overall health. But simply having an air purifier isn't enough–its placement can significantly affect its performance.
In this guide, we'll explore the best locations for your bedroom air purifier, factors to consider when choosing a spot, and common mistakes to avoid. Whether you're dealing with allergies, looking to improve your sleep quality, or simply want to breathe cleaner air, optimizing your air purifier's placement is key to creating a healthier sleeping environment.
What’s the Ideal Place for an Air Purifier in the Bedroom?
Whether you’ve created a minimalist mindfulness haven or a cluttered nesting space in your bedroom, start your placement planning by the bed, specifically where your head will be. Ideally, you want your air purifier to be close to where you’re breathing, for the shortest journey between our dual HyperCaptive air filtration system and lungfuls of clean air.
Noise won’t be an issue. Our Airmega 100, for example, produces just 20-48 decibels during operation, equivalent to the peaceful sound of a library. In fact, most people find the gentle hum quite soothing.
Avoid These Areas When Positioning Your Air Purifier
These fixed and movable features can obstruct the airflow, leading to impaired performance.
- Windows, doors, fans and vents. Any draft directly targeting your Airmega can disrupt its smooth functioning.
- Furniture. Watch out for large objects that can block the intake and outtake vents.
- Walls and curtains. These also stifle the circulation of air, so that it becomes stuck in a pocket rather than diffusing through the entire room.
- Behind the TV. It’s an area that accumulates dust, so your pre-filter will be working harder
- In the corner. Nobody puts our beautifully designed baby in the corner! An Airmega air purifier is made to be admired, not hidden.
Tips for Larger Bedrooms
If you have a large bedroom, you may want to use multiple purifiers placed strategically around the room for optimal coverage, but only if there are niches and obstacles to accommodate. Step one is to ask “What Size of Air Purifier Do I Need?”. You don’t have to calculate the Clean Air Delivery Rate yourself for each model. We’ve done it all for you, so all you have to do is measure the size of your room.
Choosing your size. If it’s…
- up to 1,035 sq ft, you can use an air purifier for Small Spaces, like our Airmega 160
- up to 1,748 sq ft, you can use an air purifier for Medium Spaces, like our Airmega Icon
- up to 2,512 sq ft, you can use an air purifier for Large Spaces, like our Airmega 250
- up to 4,253 sq ft, you can use an air purifier for Extra Large Spaces, like our Airmega 400
If you have a large, regularly shaped space with minimal furniture and obstructions, you can comfortably purify your bedroom air with a single unit of the appropriate capacity.
Other Tips for Purifying Bedroom Air
To make your bedroom as comfortable as possible, you might want to encourage air circulation during hotter summer months with small fans or a larger ceiling fan. A dehumidifier can also make a big difference to overall comfort levels. But remember that an air purifier is not a cooler, so it works alongside rather than instead of your HVAC system.
If you're looking for an air purifier with a fan, check out the Airmega Aim.
Keep these out
- Pets. They want to sleep on your bed with you, but they bring a lot of dander and dust with them.
- VOCs. Use a natural air freshener rather than spray, and apply your perfumes and deodorants in the bathroom rather than in the bedroom.
- Smoking. Restrict your cigarette and cigar smoking to outside areas.
You can certainly add leafy plants to remove carbon dioxide from the air, but beware of any flowering plants that may exacerbate allergies with pollen. Watch out for the bed and bedding too. The mattress, pillows and blankets all accumulate dust and mites which can cause asthma and allergies. Vacuum the area regularly, shake your bedding outside and leave it in the sun.
Clean Air in the Bedroom with Coway
If you want to put a Coway air purifier to the test and see the difference it makes to your indoor air quality, start in the bedroom with our range of effective, efficient units for all surface areas. Each model has a variety of settings, so you don't have to leave it running all night. It will cycle through phases according to air conditions, going to sleep like you when the hard work is done.
Sources:
NYPost - We spend nearly half of our lifetime lying around in bed
Disclaimers
1Coway air purifiers have been proven to trap dust, pollen, dander, viruses and bacteria in the air based on KCL (Korea Conformity Laboratories) testing.They have been tested in a 30㎥ size chamber according to the Korea Air Cleaning Association standard (SPS-KACA 002-132:2022 Modified) to measure the 0.01㎛ size of particle removal rate. It was tested on maximum airflow speed in normal room temperature and humidity conditions. The performance may vary in the actual living environment of customers.
→ Tested with Airmega Aim, 100, 150, 160, AP-1216L, AP-1512HH, AP-1512HHS, 200M, Icon, IconS, 230, 240, 250, 250 Art, 250S, 300, 300S, 400, 400S, ProX
299.97% of viruses, bacteria, fungi and pollen were verified to be removed from the air for Coway air purifiers which have Green True HEPA™ filter applied based on the Japan Food Research Laboratories(JFRL) testing according to JEM 1467 standard.
→ Tested with Coway Airmega AP-1512HH, AP-1512HHS, 250, 250 Art, 250S, 300, 300S, 400, 400S
→ All tested by JFRL and received above result within below time.
All tested by JFRL and received above result within below time.
- Virus: Tested with Escherichia coli phage ΦX174 NBRC 103405, 60 minutes
- Bacteria: Tested with Staphylococcus epidermidis NBRC 12993, 60 minutes
- Fungi/Mold: Tested with Penicillium citrinum NBRC 6352, 60 minutes
- Pollen: Tested with Cedar Pollen extract, 60 minutes
3Aerosol test conducted in a Biosafety level 3 laboratory with two Coway air purifier models, Coway Airmega 250 and 400 for removal of SARS-CoV-2 Aerosol by US based MRI Global, a not-for-profit laboratory and partner of US Department of Defense. The test was conducted in a 13.1ft3 chamber. Virus was aerosolized for 15 minutes and the product was turned on high for 2 minutes. Result showed each product effectively removed over 99.98% of the SARS-CoV-2 in 2 minutes. This is a result from a laboratory experiment condition and result may vary in different conditions. This result does not imply it kills SARS-CoV-2 or prevents the transmission of Covid-19. Coway Airmega 250S and 400S are identical to the tested models and has equal performance with an additional mobile connectivity function.
4The concentration of ammonia, acetaldehyde and acetic acid were proven to be removed within 30 minutes by FCG Research Institute, Inc. Human Life Science Lab. It is not a demonstration result in the actual use space. Not all odors and gases may be supported. → Tested with Coway Airmega 150, 160, AP-1512HH, AP-1512HHS, 400, 400S
5The coverage area of the air purifier is based on an area where the air cleaner can make two air changes per hour (ACPH). An air change per hour translates to how many times an air purifier can clean an area, assuming the height of a ceiling to be 8 ft, in one hour. Therefore ** means two air changes per hour means that the cleaner can clean the area once every 30 minutes and * means air changes per hour means that the air purifier can clean the area once every 60 minutes.
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