Customer Reviews

Febreze 04531GM Odor Removal Appliance

5 star:		(16)
4 star:		(10)
3 star:		(4)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(4)

 

 

For the holidays, I usually like to go to my favorite hotel to get lost. Unfortunately, I'm a smoker and the rooms I'm booked into smell like they just had a poker game. I decided to get this for my latest trip.

Within 3 hours after plugging it in, the smell left and even after I had a cigarette, the odor was gone within an hour. I'll probably leave the room smelling better than when I checked in.

Great product. And yes, I will eventually quit smoking.

I bought three of these, and they are amazing.

I have one next to our guinea pig cage (we have 5), and the downstairs always smells bad. Now, unless you are right next to the cage, you can't smell a thing.

I put the second in our diaper changing room. Its amazing. The smell of dirty diapers used to waft into our kitchen, but no more.

Lastly, I put the third next to our dogs cage in our room. She is a big dog, and not completely house trained. Up side, our room doesn't smell like dog at all. Down side, when she messes in her crate we don't smell it, we have to find it in the morning.

As a whole, they are amazing. I have been struggling with odors for so long, and refuse to spray a bunch of chemicals in the air to mask them. This little device just sucks them up. We leave them on 24/7 and so far we are just shy of 1/2 way through the life of the first filter, and we've had them for almost 3 weeks. Looks like we'll go through one filter every 6-7 weeks.

All in all, five stars. You can't hear it running unless you get right up next to it, and it even has a small pad on the backside of the unit so it won't droop against the wall.

This air filter is without a doubt the best thing that has ever happened to me. Seems a little melodramatic, right? I'm not kidding. Some people get married, some people have children, and some people finally find a way to cover up the disgusting and off-putting smell of their cat's litter box. The latter happened to me and now I'm here to tell you one thing: BUY THIS! I live in a 515 square foot studio apartment and in case you are wondering how small that it is, it's incredibly small. Imagine the closet of a celebrity, that is the size of my apartment. I live with my 2 cats and their lovely bathroom - the litter box. My entire apartment has always smelled like a cat's bathroom no matter what litter I used; countless products I sprinkled on the litter, air deodorizers I've wasted many precious dollars on, organic 'high quality' foods, scooping after every bowel movement. You name it, I've tried it. I saw this little contraption on Amazon during a desperate search one stinky evening. I figured, what the heck, it was worth a try. When it arrived, I plugged it in and went to work. I came home 10 hours later and when I opened the door to my apartment, for the first time I wasn't hit smack in the face with the stench of cat excrement. Surely I had walked into the wrong apartment, but nope, there were my 2 smelly cats sleeping on my couch. This little air filter solved the most annoying, bothersome, smelly problem in my life. I have friends over now and the first thing they say to me when they walk in is, "What happened to your cats? I can't smell them." I never in all my life been so thankful for a product. It literally eliminates every foul odor imaginable. Thank you, odor removal air filter. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Though I can only give the Febreze 3 stars, I am glad I own it and would buy it again. It's about the only odor removal solution for the windowless, ventless bathroom in my office. The thing, however, is its small size and relatively weak motor severely limit how quickly it removes odors.

The bathroom where it labors is very small, 28" x 81". After someone has "used" the bathroom, it will take the Febreze two to three hours to remove the odors if the door is closed. As one would imagine, if the door is left slightly open the odors disappear more rapidly. However, I do not want the odors to escape the bathroom, I want them filtered out. The good news is after 5-8 minutes the "edge" is off the odor and breathing becomes more tolerable with each passing minute.

The activated charcoal filter is what makes this thing work. One should be able to get to 3 months use out of a filter before buying a new one, according to the package. The unit's small size does have some positive aspects. For instance, the Febreze is unobtrusive and quiet.

I would like to see a larger version with a corded plug so it could rest on the floor or a counter; thus allowing for a larger, heavier motor and larger filter. For now, though, I will be thankful for the good work it does even if it does so slowly.

The packaging does not attempt to mislead prospective purchasers. It does state it works best in smaller spaces and is not meant for a large room. Though the unit for sale here is clearly labeled "Febreze", one may still find a nearly identical machine sold under the Hamilton Beach name. Some vendors sell it under both the Hamilton Beach and Febreze names.

Bottom line (no pun intended): It is a good product within the limitations of its small size. Recommended for smaller rooms.

I've used this in rooms with pet odors and even milk spills on carpet that needed a cleaning job that I couldn't get to until the next day. It really controls the odor! I love it.

It works just like it claims, but even with the discounted price at Amazon I think it is very overpriced.

I can't say enough good about this product... it is amazing! I put one next to my cat's litter box and it has worked wonders. I have always tried to find a product that could help control the odor, and this is it! It is not instant, so don't expect immediate perfection. However, within an hour or so after my cats use their box, the odor has been absorbed and is only faintly noticeable. Then a little while longer and the smell is gone completely. In the past, the smell would creep out of the room and into the stairwell, but no more! Now, after long days at work I only very rarely come home to a smelly cat box. While there doesn't seem to be a huge difference from the standard filters, I use the Odor Removal Filter for Pets and have received wonderful results.

One thing to know is that it does create a soft fan sound at all times, and it also has a blue nightlight on the top that can't be turned off separately from the fan. Neither of these has been an issue for me, just something to keep in mind.

I put this in the bathroom and it works great ! It has a quiet, rhythmatic fan sound to it. Anyone who owns a litter box knows that no matter how often you clean it & scoop it out, it still smells terrible. With this, no one will ever guess you have a litter box! I'll def. be buying extra filters for this !

FYI - I paired this with the Holmes HEPA-Type Air Purifier.

I love Febreze products and had high hopes for this system. It was place in a very small bathroom where the kitty box is and the only difference it made was added noise. Was so disappointed, even more so that I did not keep the packaging to send it back. It was worth a try but not what I hoped for.

I bought this to try to remove cat litter box odor. The litter box is in a closet in the laundry room and we keep the door to the closet open about 6 inches (for obvious reasons). I clean the box out every day or at most every two days if I forget so I have good habits there. The smell is still here. I put this product near the opening of the closet door for about a month and didn't notice much difference at all in the laundry room. Then I put it right in the closet above the litter box and there is still no difference even with cleaning it out so often. I even started using litter with baking soda and buying baking soda in bulk at a warehouse store and dumping it in with the litter with a one inch layer on the bottom as I've read. It has been about 2 months and the filter indicator shows that it is only half way used up so I guess it will go another 2 months.

So I am happy that the filter lasts so long, especially being right in the closet with the box but I am not impressed that it is not removing very much of the odor at all, if any.

I don't see that this product would be useful in any room of the house if it barely works in a small closet.

Would not buy again and probably won't continue using this one when the filter goes bad.