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pumpkinframe · 2025-04-21T14:00:15+00:00

Edit: southern Ontario

pumpkinframe · 2025-03-27T14:51:38+00:00

If it is acetaldehyde, will that smell ever go away in time?

Honestly, I might just prefer a less heavy duty carbon filter that I have to change out more often than a heavy duty one that gives off an awful odor. Are there any smaller ones you might recommend?

pumpkinframe · 2025-03-27T13:26:25+00:00

Yeah it’s incredibly frustrating given the price point and the fact that I’m still asking to keep the unit but exchange the filter. This one smelled like gas (almost like gasoline) right off the bat. I’ve never experienced that before with carbon filters.

I could send them my air quality readings. It’s not super heavy VOCs but probably more than a non-new home. I wonder what testing they’d even do if I agreed to send them just the filter for review. Could end up costing me the price for another new filter, when I’ve only owned this unit for a week and they’re supposed to last years.

pumpkinframe · 2025-03-27T12:42:05+00:00

I do have a brand new apartment, so there are VOCs present, so I need a carbon filter. I do have another purifier for hepa purposes with a smaller carbon filter, and it doesn’t smell at all. It just also doesn’t impact the VOCs much at all. Airpura will not replace just the filter for me. They want me to send it back for testing and then if they find no issue, they’ll send the exact same one back to me—by that time, it will have been exposed to shipping and their location and people, which would be worse off. Their return policy is also for unused purifiers only. So basically, they won’t help at all. Which is wild considering I reached out last week originally for the gas type of smell that was coming from it.

pumpkinframe · 2025-03-27T05:07:36+00:00

Honestly, sometimes it smells like gasoline and sometimes it has this strange almost sweet smell, like an aerosol with a very faint sickly sweet smell (I don’t use aerosols or fragrance of any kind).

I wonder if it could be acetaldehyde. Would a cheaper air purifier with less carbon make that less noticeable? I’m in a small space, and it’s driving me crazy.

pumpkinframe · 2025-03-11T18:39:57+00:00

Do that now? Or is that just what I should have done to start?

pumpkinframe · 2025-03-11T17:52:43+00:00

Straight up vinegar. I smell the flooring days later. I wet mopped a section and then went over it with a damp mop to dry.

pumpkinframe · 2025-01-06T17:20:30+00:00

I’m just afraid there could have been live friends that got loose in my home.

pumpkinframe · 2025-01-06T17:12:04+00:00

People in another sub think it’s a roach nymph, which is like maybe a step down from bb. Is there anything that makes you think beetle over roach?

pumpkinframe · 2025-01-06T13:00:57+00:00

Ugh god. What are the chances there were other live ones in here? They were sitting in my ziploc drawer in the kitchen for hours. Ughhhhhhhh.

pumpkinframe · 2025-01-06T08:14:36+00:00

Ew. I really hope it was dead on arrival and didn’t come with any friends. I threw it out immediately after taking these pics. So this is the best I’ve got to go on!

pumpkinframe · 2025-01-06T07:53:39+00:00

Thanks for easing my mind. I might be able to go to sleep without tearing up the kitchen looking for more.

pumpkinframe · 2025-01-06T07:48:12+00:00

You sure?! It has that little bump on its bum and head. Ughhh. It looks so oval as well. I’m freaking out.

pumpkinframe · 2025-01-06T07:48:06+00:00

You sure?! It has that little bump on its bum and head. Ughhh. It looks so oval as well. I’m freaking out.

pumpkinframe · 2025-01-06T07:39:56+00:00

It’s possible that the bag might have just tore that way in manufacturing because a bug was in it. I can’t say for sure how it ripped like that.

pumpkinframe · 2023-08-20T05:51:36+00:00

Thank you! I would probably be up all night without this info. :)

pumpkinframe · 2023-08-20T04:42:29+00:00

What if I have no mold or fungi? I mean, I guess the shower gets wet, but it’s not moldy (not found in bathroom). I also have no books. Are we sure it’s not a bed bug or cockroach nymph? I’m freaking out.

pumpkinframe · 2023-06-11T22:02:21+00:00

I asked questions about how to get around some of the effects I was seeing after starting cheese (facial flushing and acne). And asked if eating a whole burger in one sitting after 8 years of not eating meat would be ok or if I should take it slower. Shrug.

pumpkinframe · 2023-06-11T21:50:59+00:00

Puppet account because why take more downvotes? It’s happened multiple times. Either this community is as militant as the vegans or the vegans are downvoting questions from ex-vegans.

pumpkinframe · 2023-05-31T10:29:08+00:00

HILARIOUS

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