Has anyone considered using a consumer "air purifier" to eliminate dust in a small shop?
I have a small shop (no remedy) and vasomotor rhinitis (no cure). My sinuses and nasal passages are hypersensitive to various stimuli including the ultra-fine dust created in a woodworking shop. Oil-burning exhaust, perfume, cleaning solution oderants, cookies baking - all sorts of things that most people aren't affected by (I know, some of them smell good) are like snorting battery acid to me.
A fair amount of the culprit particulates that get to me are too small to be trapped by the typical shop dust filtering systems that I have looked into (also, most of these systems are simply too large to be installed in my small area). So I am considering one of the larger consumer "air purifiers" on the market. Any comments or experiences?
The HEPA filtration that is a part of these units would be a plus point for me but I am a little skeptical about the capacity of the filters in these units when put to use in a woodworking shop. Any discussion of the limits of these filters?
I do use a P100 mask when I am cutting and I use vacuum dust collection on the tools but that doesn't catch a lot of this fine stuff and I don't want to have to wear the mask full time in the shop.
Thanks in advance for any info.
Tim