Customer Reviews

DeLonghi DAP70 Freshzone Air Purifier with True HEPA Filtration

5 star:		(18)
4 star:		(15)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(3)

 

 

I bought this air purifier for my 9' x 10' office. I leave it running in quiet mode 24/7, and it has substantially reduced the amount of dust in my office. Ordinarily a layer of dust would accumulate over a weekend, but with this purifier there is none.

This unit is actually quiet in "quiet mode"--it is unobtrusive in my office, and I believe that I would have no problem sleeping with this on at home. The middle and high fan settings, however, are intolerable. I only use these settings when I'm away from the office for lunch etc. for some extra cleaning while I'm out.

I'm not sure what those expensive air purifiers do that this one does not--I mean, they're all just a fan and a filter, right? Overall, I'm pleased with this purcase.

Update March 2006: still running quietly 24/7 in quiet mode; still very little dust accumulating in my office, filter does not need to be replaced yet. I'm still pleased with this purchase.

Update June 2007: I changed offices and brought this home to use in my bedroom. I'm right--it is quiet enough to sleep with it on, even after running 24/7 all this time. I enjoy a soft cool breeze of fresh air while I sleep. It does help reduce dust in the bedroom but not as well as it did in the office--there are more hiding places for dust in a bedroom. Finally time to buy a new filter. I'm still pleased with this purchase.

We have had this item for a good six months now and it has been working in excellent condition since. We all had sinus problems due to mildew and dust that we just couldnt get rid of. I received this item in the morning and turned it on right away. We noticed the huge difrence the very first night we used it. There was 90% less mildew smell and even the air felt cleaner.
The mildew has not came back and the dust problem is no longer an issue. We keep it on low to sleep and high during the day. When its on low you cant hear a thing but the high one is pretty loud not that it matters much to us. And one of the best things about this item is that it cools the room!. Sometimes we put it on high to sleep when its too hot because it gives cool air, Its like having an extra fan/cooler and an air purifier all in one. Buy the way when I bought it it was for around $34.00 with shipping.

quiet operation can sleep at nite without sneezing very good price recomend it highley

I have had this air filter for about 5 months. Primarily purchased to filter cigarette smoke. VERY satisfied. Loud on "high" setting but very tolerable on "medium". I recall it was shipped promptly without incident. Would I purchase again?? ..absolutely

Dear DeLonghi,

Thank you for making my world a better place. I used to dread coming to work in my non-traditional office space above a cigar shop, dread the lingering smell of old cigars and the migraines that would creep in around lunchtime and the sinus pressure that accompanied them. I hated the way any clothing or outerwear I left at work overnight would reek of stale cigar smoke when I took it home. I no longer worry about getting lung cancer from second-hand smoke, and when I walk into my office every day, I relish breathing the fresh, filtered air that you provide.

However, I have a confession to make, little DeLonghi -- I feel guilty saying this but I have almost forgotten you exist!! It has been weeks since I got you, and you've just been sitting there so quietly, doing your job on quiet mode with barely a peep out of you (except for when I turn you on HIGH for an hour or so just to clear out the room on a particularly filthy day -- then you can be pretty white noisy -- but then we all have our moments, don't we). But mostly, because you're running on quiet mode, I forget you're there! I suppose that's how it should be... but I hope you know that I am SO glad I dropped the $40 on you -- you are the best $40 I have ever spent. I don't know what I would have done without you.

This thing just moves dust around. For it to even begin to work it must be on high. Consumer reports really describes why any purifier that does not go above 100 CDR is really not working well enough to realize any benefits - in fact may actually harm you - because you have it in your mind that you have a purifier in the room and then you don't allow fresh air in.

Don't buy the delonghi's - they are very poor air purifiers. They will suck in dust - but they won't do it enough for you to help eliminate any problem that you may have due to dust / pollen / dander etc.

Look elsewhere - if you can - check out consumer reports website on air purifiers.

I have been suffering from allergies and had actually forgotten what it was like to breathe clearly. I was a little skeptical of the DeLonghi because I had never heard of the brand. This is my first air purifier purchase and I am VERY satisfied. I have it in my bedroom and keep it on the "quiet" level and it is actually pretty quiet. The other two levels are noisy, but I haven't found the need to use them. The "quiet" level actually purifies the air quite well. I can tell because I don't wake up with a stuffy nose in the morning. I am able to breathe!! I keep it running 24/7 and haven't had any problems with it. I love it. It's affordable and works great!

i had terrible allergies in the room i was sleeping in. this purifier definately cleaned the air and rid of the problem. i also had a problem with mildow smell in a large bathroom and it fixed that problem too. i am very pleased with them, i bought 3 at about $38 a pc. i bought additional filters on ebay for really cheap. i have had the unit for about 3 months now and i still haven't had to use the new filters i bought.

After coughing for 5 months, I decided to buy this product hoping that it would help me stop coughing.

At first I thought I was coughing because of the dust in my room so I bought a nice vacuum cleaner and I vacuumed by bedroom every week. That didn't work, I kept on coughing. Next I thought maybe I should wash my bed sheets. That didn't work either. Weeks went by and I was still coughing.

If it wasn't dust, I figured that my throat was too sensitive so I started sucking on cough drops hoping that doing so would give my throat a chance to heal. At first I bought bags of 20 cough drops thinking that I only needed 20. As time went on, I moved on to a bag of 30 drops, a bag of 50 drops, and finally a bag of 80 drops. I must have downed at least 400 cough drops in the last 5 months.

About 3 months ago, I went to see a doctor and the doctor said I had allergies. She prescribed Flonase and Zyrtec, but after a week of use, I gave up on those drugs.

I started using this product a little more than a week ago and my coughing has now stopped. I wanted to give this product 5 stars because it is cheap and it did the job I wanted it to do. However, I can only give this product 4 stars for the following reasons:

1. After 2 days of non-stop use, the condition of my throat improved dramatically. Unfortunately, on days 3-6, my throat became ultra-sensitive and I started coughing even more. On day 7 I decided to turn off the unit while I sleep and ever since then I stopped coughing. I am guessing that the unit produces trace amounts of ozone even with the ionizer off so continuous use made my throat even more sensitive. It could be pure chance that I stopped coughing on day 7 so don't quote me on the ozone.

2. I can sleep with the unit on the lowest speed setting but the other two speed settings are horrendously loud as other reviewers have noted. The cross-sectional area of the air output hole is only 1/3 the cross-sectional area of the air intake hole. Since what goes in must come out, the air velocity at the output is 3x the air velocity at the input. While having a high output air velocity may improve the circulation in the room and help the air purifier suck in dirty air rather than the air it just purified, it is horrible from a noise perspective. It is a trade-off that DeLonghi decided to make.

3. Maybe my expectations for this product were a bit too high, but if I stick my nose at the output of the machine, I don't think I should be able to detect any particles coming out of the machine. However, I can still feel "something" come out of the machine. At first glance, it has a HEPA filter which supposedly traps 99.97% of particles 0.3um or larger so I shouldn't be able to detect anything coming out of the machine with my nose. However, if you consider the high flow rate of air coming out of the machine, my nose is bound to detect something. The fact that HEPA filters are not perfect is why you leave the machine long enough to make sure all the air in the room goes through the machine a few times.

Although this unit isn't perfect, I really like the price. Yes, I could have paid $200-$300 for an air purifier, but I paid less than $50 and I stopped a 5 month cough. The Flonase and the Zyrtec were $30 and I must have spent more than $20 on cough drops so paying less than $50 for a machine that cured my cough is really a good deal.

I purchased a DeLonghi DAP70 Freshzone Air Purifier as a terrific buy at less then $45 with S&H included. It is amazingly quiet on it's lowest setting, and still not even noisy enough to warrent more then one click up on the volume for the TV. (The Honeywell we own also sounds like a freight train next to it.)
My husband's allergic to our ferret, and he has noticed a huge difference with the DeLonghi running. We have it attached to the wall above the ferret and don't even realize it's there until someone new comes over.
I definately recommend this product for effectivness!
My only issue (?) is that it builds up a static charge, so be careful placing it on or around electronics and wire cages! I had placed it on top of the ferret's cage, but once I realized why I kept getting shocked..we hung it up on the wall.