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“down faster than that half a gallon or liter or two of water. So, most of those little air purifiers you see, they're good for a little small space for a closet, for a dorm room, but they're not designed to actually clean a large volume of air.”
“I'll tell you guys about that after. This is partly what inspired it. They put air purifiers in 50% of the classrooms. And the difference was they reduced absentee rates by about 30% in teachers and students. So people weren't getting sick nearly as much.”
“If it was a space heater, you would know what covers means. It means I need to be warm. Yeah. But air purifiers are designed to incrementally clean the air. They're not scrubbing the air. They're not getting it that clean. So I want to be careful because if you walk down those stores, Walmart, whatever, and it says like 1500 square feet, first of all, it's air.”
“I can't remember if it was a Best Buy or a Walmart or Home Depot, but I went out and I bought a bunch of little air purifiers, the regular ones you see for two, three, $400. Most of them are very similar. And I left five or six in the home, tested the air again a few hours later, totally contaminated again.”
“The smell part's gone, and you get used to it, but the contaminants stay behind. So I was like, whoa, we need something more significant than these air purifiers. Forget these huge fires, but just for anywhere that's dealing with smoke. So it was clear to me, these air scrubbers, super effective.”
“And we bought them out at about 100 CFM on the silent setting. A lot of air filters, max, are about 80 CFM. The sneakiest thing out there is you walk down the shelves, you see a little filter on the shelf and you're like, covers a large room, 1,500 square feet.”
“There'll be smoke. We can go there, help. And then COVID happened. So what ended up happening is they mandated in Ontario that every dentist needed an air filter in every room to open their doors for business again. So it was a requirement in Ontario, but based on the airflow would determine the time between patients.”
“You can, you know, I like things that are easy. So I remember about eight years ago, I bought a different brand about 10 years ago, I bought a couple of air filters and then little light comes on. I go back to the store. They don't sell the filter anymore. What size? So I'm like, the stress, I don't need another appliance to manage and maintain.”
“One of the problems that you have, and I only found this out from speaking to Mike from Jaspr, is that you can't have an air purifier, or he calls it a scrubber, an air scrubber, but different. I know your dad was huge into this stuff, right? My dad was water filtration.”
“Then we can pull the scrubbers out. This kept happening. Well, now we had no equipment to do more jobs. So I'm like, let's, what if we go to Best Buy, Walmart? I just buy six or seven air purifiers. Yeah. Put them in the home and let them keep them because we need the scrubbers for work. Right. We put the air purifiers in, we're monitoring the air.”
“Wow. And this was my big moment. I knew nothing at the time. This is 2016. I knew nothing about residential air purifiers. I only knew about scrubbers. Scrubber basically is a big industrial air purifier designed for mold, smoke, asbestos, lead, crime scene cleanup, heavy duty, but they're loud and they're ugly.”
“So I'm like, oh wow, this is a really big problem. These air purifiers on the shelves are making big claims. So I was like, wait, when this restoration, when this fire is done, I'm like, we need to create an air scrubber that is actually quiet and it's beautiful.”
“Yeah. So with the school, the study was done in Finland. They put air purifiers, and I don't even think super impressive ones, but decent ones, into 50% of the classes across a handful of schools. And the absentee rates dropped by 20% to 30%, depending on where. Yeah, yeah, right.”
“have a $2,000 air filter in their home, and I just think that that's a complete inversion of priorities. Now, for someone who has everything dialed in and they happen to live in an area where air pollution is demonstrably higher than it should be, that to me is a very, very rare exception.”
“That's fine. Okay. Well, is your air very polluted in that case? In that case, you know, maybe you need an air purifier. So from a sleep perspective, it's, is there anything physically that's preventing you from getting deep sleep if you wanted it? Do you have some sort of systemic inflammation going on?”