Dyson Purifier Humidify + Cool Formaldehyde review

There’s no extra recognisable house equipment than a Dyson fan, due to its iconic design. The bladeless fan is offered in quite a few totally different kinds: heating, cooling, air purifying and humidifying – and numerous combos of those.

You’ll be able to browse all of the obtainable home equipment on the Dyson web site within the US or the UK. They begin in value at $419.99 within the US for a purifying fan or £349.99 for the easy Cool Tower Fan within the UK, and go as much as $939.99/ £699.99 for Dyson’s latest multifunctional home equipment.

We’re taking a look at Dyson’s newest mixture air care equipment: the Air purifier Humidify + Cool Formaldehyde (PH04). It’s a bladeless air purifying fan and humidifier. Because the title suggests, it’s additionally one of many few air purifiers obtainable that particularly targets and destroys formaldehyde within the air.

Design and construct

• Complete, full color show
• Distant and app management
• Not very moveable: no wheels, pretty heavy at 8.2kg/ 18lbs

The Air purifier Humidify + Cool Formaldehyde is available in a white, nickel and (very coppery) gold colourway. Should you’re within the US, you will get it in nickel and (coppery) gold for $20 extra. The important thing distinction between the 2 colourways is that the fan loop is in silver moderately than white.

Should you’ve by no means seen a Dyson fan in actual life, you may not know that they differ in dimension. This one is 92.3cm excessive, with a 31cm diameter base. Its footprint might be barely smaller than that of a standing fan and it’s not fairly as tall. It might be an ideal top to chill you if you happen to have been sitting on a settee.

Nonetheless, it’s not fairly as compact because the Air purifier HP09 Sizzling+Cool Formaldehyde. Though the 2 home equipment share a really related design, the clear water tank on the base of the humidifying mannequin provides some top and marks out its particular operate.

It’s a reasonably heavy equipment at 8.2kg/ 18lbs and it doesn’t have wheels, so that you’ll most likely need to discover a spot for it and go away it there. It’s not likely appropriate for shifting from room to room with you.

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It comes with an identical copper-coloured distant management that, in a pleasant contact, magnetically attaches to the highest of the equipment so that you gained’t lose it.

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On the equipment’s entrance is a spherical, full color show. You should use the ‘i’ button on the distant to cycle by means of and present all potential measurements. It’s a particularly complete checklist that reveals:

• Air high quality
• PM 2.5 (smaller particles)
• PM10 (bigger however nonetheless inhalable particles)
• HCHO (formaldehyde)
• VOCs (risky natural compounds – poisonous and smelly gases)
• NO2 (nitrous dioxide – usually from car emissions)
• Temperature
• Humidity stage

All the air high quality indicators have a four-colour chart – from inexperienced (good) to purple (very poor) – so you will get at-a-glance info.

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You may also use the onscreen show to verify the remaining filter life and your Wi-Fi sign.

MyDyson app

The Air purifier Humidify + Cool Formaldehyde is a linked gadget you can additionally management through the MyDyson app. It is a huge plus because the app (previously known as Dyson Hyperlink) is superbly designed and simple to make use of.

In our take a look at, the equipment linked shortly and with out bother. Nonetheless, your outcomes might differ, relying on the energy of your Wi-Fi sign.

As soon as linked, you possibly can management your machine, view your air high quality and see air high quality traits, all in app. It’s additionally an easy enterprise to hook up with your Alexa, Siri or Google Dwelling voice assistant, so you possibly can swap it on and off with voice instructions and add it to routines.

The app additionally accommodates a wealth of knowledge on tips on how to use your machine and troubleshooting.

Organising the Air purifier Humidify + Cool Formaldehyde

The machine’s set-up just isn’t difficult. First, the tape must be eliminated and the filters fitted.

Nonetheless, it is likely to be an thought to observe the Dyson set-up video. Should you do, you’ll see a mannequin interacting with the machine with all of the thought-about class of a Japanese tea ceremony. That’s actually not the way it regarded once I did it.

There’s a slight trick to eradicating the filters and the water tank: you must use each palms without delay to press the buttons on all sides. This may increasingly imply that it might not be a really perfect product for a disabled person.

Whereas I discovered the water tank simple to maneuver as soon as I discovered this, I nonetheless discovered the filter covers a bit fussy. They don’t connect and detach in a satisfying method.

Subsequent, you’ll take away the tank on the base and fill it with water. The tank is properly designed, with wheels beneath and a carry deal with on prime, so it’s simple to do. And that’s it – very easy.

Utilizing the fan

• 10 pace settings
• Oscillation
• Timer

The fan has 10 pace settings and is quiet in operation. Even on the highest setting, all you possibly can hear is the sound of speeding air. There’s no mechanical noise in any respect.

Nonetheless, I did discover that that the equipment whines in operation. It’s audible when the fan is on its decrease settings.

The highest setting may be very highly effective as a private cooling fan, partially due to Dyson’s air multiplier expertise. What this implies is that extra air is drawn in from behind the fan and from the edges when it’s in operation.

Presumably, nonetheless, this air gained’t have simply gone by means of the air purifier, which signifies that it might not be the only option for folks with hay fever or related points, who’re on the lookout for an air air purifier/fan to assist with their allergic reactions.  

Nonetheless, if you happen to don’t need the cooling characteristic, you possibly can change the route of the airflow in order that it comes out behind the machine and doesn’t blow straight at you, so this may occasionally assist.

You’ll be able to activate fan oscillation to chill a wider space. There’s additionally a timer which you’ll set to half-hour, or 1, 2, 4 or 8 hours, and an evening mode that units it occurring its quietest stage and dims the show.

The fan additionally has breeze mode, which varies the airflow “to imitate a cooling refreshing breeze”. I’ve but to fulfill anybody who finds this mode something aside from annoying however somebody on the market should prefer it: whoever it’s, take observe.

Utilizing the air air purifier

• Catalytic (anti-formaldehyde) filter by no means wants changing
• Change HEPA filter yearly at a value of $79.99/ £65
• Air high quality monitor is delicate

Th uncommon factor on this air purifier is the catalytic filter, which breaks down formaldehyde within the air and which is able to by no means want changing.

You may need formaldehyde in your air if you happen to’re portray or adorning, use fuel-burning home equipment or simply from cleansing merchandise and cosmetics.

Outdoors of this, the air purifier has a three-stage, HEPA filter that cleans the air of VOCs, smaller (PM2.5) and bigger (PM10) particles. It is a complete filter system that ought to take away something disagreeable out of your air at house.

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Nonetheless, it’s onerous to measure its effectiveness towards air purifiers from different manufacturers. Should you check out our round-up of the most effective air purifiers we’ve examined, you’ll see that the majority home equipment present a clear air supply charge (CADR), which is an industry-wide system of measurement, exhibiting how lengthy it takes to wash a room of a given dimension of various kinds of pollution.

Nonetheless, Dyson has some objections to CADR as a measurement and doesn’t actually use it. You’ll find out extra on the Dyson web site. So, all we will do is let you know the way it properly it labored throughout our testing interval.

I may need been a tiny bit sceptical earlier than utilizing it – due to Dyson’s stance on CADR – however I used to be impressed within the take a look at.

The equipment was arrange in the lounge, and after we had cooked lunch on the hob within the kitchen on the opposite facet of the corridor, the show confirmed an increase in PM 2.5 air pollution within the air and assessed the air high quality as poor.

My house is on no account of palatial dimension however that is the primary time an air air purifier has been delicate sufficient to detect that change so far-off from the kitchen. It might additionally detect a change in air high quality from a window opening, and from a sprig cleaner utilized in one other room.

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We’ve tended to have the home windows closed more often than not not too long ago, due to the unseasonably chilly climate, which doesn’t assist indoor air high quality. Seeing the change in air high quality on the show motivated me to run the air air purifier and open the home windows often to refresh the air.

For this reason its wonderful show is so helpful: in case your air air purifier doesn’t offer you a lot info, you gained’t all the time realise when you must use it.

The one concern to flag with the air purifier is the continued value. The 360° Glass HEPA+Carbon filter prices $79.99/ £65 to exchange, which is a little bit pricier than these of rivals. The machine will let you understand when it’s time to vary it, however Dyson recommends you achieve this yearly.

Nonetheless, whichever air air purifier you purchase, you’ll want to exchange the filter. Individuals query why they’re not washable, but when they’ve a VOC-catching carbon layer, that’ll simply get saturated over time and there’s no possibility however to exchange it.

Utilizing the humidifier

• Straightforward to make use of
• Auto mode
• May be switched off if you happen to solely need the fan and air purifier

The humidifier factor will most likely imply that this Dyson equipment is extra area of interest than different mixture fan fashions. Relying on the place you’re on this planet, you may need extra issues with damp than with a scarcity of it.

Should you don’t need to use the humidifier on a regular basis, you possibly can swap this operate off and simply use the equipment as a fan and air air purifier.

Nonetheless, if in case you have your home windows closed lots and the heating on (and congratulations if you happen to can afford that) you may discover that you simply get sinus complications, dry pores and skin and cracked lips, or that there’s a variety of static, all of which could be indicators that the air in your house is just too dry.

Estimates of the best humidity stage differ a bit, but it surely’s a spread from 30-60% or from 40-70%, relying on which supply you employ. Inside that vary, you’ll discover a snug stage.

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The humidifier couldn’t be simpler to make use of. You simply have to fill the water tank and press a single button.

You’ll be able to select auto humidify or set a stage from 30%-70%. Clearly, although, it is a humidifier, not a dehumidifier, so you possibly can’t decrease your room’s humidity with this equipment. We now have examined the superb Meaco Arete One if you happen to’re on the lookout for a dehumidifier.

Earlier fashions of the Dyson humidifier have been reported to have issues with the deep cleansing cycle. So it was a little bit of a fear when, after solely utilizing the equipment as soon as, it wouldn’t activate and requested a deep clear straight away. Nonetheless, there’s a video that reveals tips on how to do it (you’ll want citric acid and it takes an hour) and after a deep cleansing cycle, it ran completely.

One factor to notice is that the air the place I stay tends in direction of dampness, particularly at the moment of yr. Meaning we had no issues reaching a wholesome humidity threshold and have been unable to check the way it carried out in an space with very dry air.

Value and availability

On the time of writing, we might solely discover the Air purifier Humidify + Cool Formaldehyde on the market from Dyson (US, £919.99 or 939.99, relying on the colourway; UK, £699.99).

It’s on the prime finish of the value vary for Dyson’s air care home equipment. That’s due to its multi-functionality and the truth that it could destroy formaldehyde within the air, which is a uncommon characteristic. It does all the things that any Dyson fan can – apart from heating.

Verdict

You should buy all the home equipment that make up the Air purifier Humidify + Cool Formaldehyde individually, for lower than the value of this one. However you then’d be storing and utilizing at the very least three separate home equipment – 4, if you’d like a extremely good air high quality monitor – and we doubt that any can be as complete and simple to make use of.

This is a superb equipment that carried out properly throughout our take a look at. We have been notably impressed with the sensitivity of the air air purifier and the massive quantity of information on air high quality it supplies, each on the show and within the app.

Should you’d wish to see extra air purifiers and mixture home equipment, take a look at our round-up of the most effective air purifiers we’ve examined.