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Holmes Small Room HEPA Air Purifier VS. Blueair Classic 605 Air Purifier

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9.4
Winner:

Blueair Classic 605 Air Purifier

Reasons to buy Blueair Classic 605 Air Purifier:

  • button icon Removes 99.97% of air airborne pollutants.
  • button icon 3 fan-speeds including whisper-quiet operation.
  • button icon Wifi-enabled & Amazon-Alexa compatible.
  • button icon For medium-to-large rooms of up-to 800sq.ft.
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Holmes Small Room HEPA Air Purifier

Reasons to buy Holmes Small Room HEPA Air Purifier :

  • button icon A slim dual positioning design.
  • button icon 3 speed settings for customized-control.
  • button icon HEPA-filter that removes 99% of Allergens.
  • button icon An optional-ionizer assists in particle removal.
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PERFORMANCE
WINNER :

Blueair Classic 605 Air Purifier

  • TIMER
  • FOR LARGE ROOMS
  • AUTOMATICALLY DETECTS AIRBORNE PARTICLES
USABILITY
WINNER :

Blueair Classic 605 Air Purifier

  • ALEXA COMPATIBLE
  • REMOTE CONTROL
SAFETY
WINNER :

Blueair Classic 605 Air Purifier

  • CHILD LOCK
  • OZONE FREE
APPEARANCE
DRAW :
Comparison Winner
Blueair Classic 605 Air Purifier

Reasons why we like it:

  • TIMER
  • FOR LARGE ROOMS
  • AUTOMATICALLY DETECTS AIRBORNE PARTICLES
  • ALEXA COMPATIBLE
  • REMOTE CONTROL
  • CHILD LOCK
  • OZONE FREE
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COMPARISON – Holmes Small Room HEPA Air Purifier VS. Blueair Classic 605 Air Purifier

PERFORMANCE

HEPA FILTER

Holmes Small Room HEPA Air Purifier
Blueair Classic 605 Air Purifier
Yes

Features a HEPA-type-filter that removes 99% of airborne particles as small as 2-microns so that you can breathe comfortably.

Yes

Features a patented HEPAsilent-technology particle-filter that uses electrostatic and mechanical filtration to eliminate 99.97% of airborne-pollutants.

TIMER

Holmes Small Room HEPA Air Purifier
Blueair Classic 605 Air Purifier
No

Yes

The downloadable Blueair-Friend-App will let you choose when to you want the air-purifier to run and on any given speed.

FOR LARGE ROOMS

Holmes Small Room HEPA Air Purifier
Blueair Classic 605 Air Purifier
No

Yes

It’s designed for use in large rooms with sizes 700sq.ft and 800sq.ft. Additionally, it’s AHAM-rated at 775sq.ft making it perfect for use in large living-rooms and bedrooms.

REMOVES CIGARETTE ODOR

Holmes Small Room HEPA Air Purifier
Blueair Classic 605 Air Purifier
Yes

Uses an activated carbon filter to remove cigarette-odor and other household-odors within air.

Yes

Uses an optional SmokeStop carbon activated filter to eliminate cigarette-odor and other VOCs (gases) within your house.

ROOM SIZE AND AIRFLOW

Holmes Small Room HEPA Air Purifier
Blueair Classic 605 Air Purifier
Yes

It’s designed for use within small-to-medium sized rooms of up-to 109-square-feet (10ft x 11ft). It also pulls in dirty-air from the front-vents and gives-off clean air at the top-vents.

Yes

Designed for use in medium-to-large rooms between 700sq.ft and 800sq.ft. It also uses a SurroundAir-system that takes in air from the bottom and sides while releasing clean-air at the top and sides.

FIGHTS GERMS

Holmes Small Room HEPA Air Purifier
Blueair Classic 605 Air Purifier
Yes

Its plastic-housing features Microban-protection that guards against microbial-growth of germs, mold & bacteria.

Yes

Uses particle-filter with HEPAsilent technology to capture 99.97% of airborne particles like; germs down to 0.1-microns.

ELIMINATES DUST MITES

Holmes Small Room HEPA Air Purifier
Blueair Classic 605 Air Purifier
Yes

The unit uses a HEPA filter to trap 99% of typical airborne particles including dust-mites.

Yes

Its HEPAsilent-Particle-filter helps to capture 99.97% of airborne-particles down to 0.1-microns including; dust-mites. In fact, it has a Dust-CADR of 850m3 per hour.

REMOVES PET DANDER

Holmes Small Room HEPA Air Purifier
Blueair Classic 605 Air Purifier
Yes

Its HEPA-filter can trap 99% of typical airborne-particles including pet-dander in-order to improve on the quality and freshness of air within your home.

Yes

Uses particle-filter with HEPAsilent technology to capture and eliminate 99.97% of airborne-pollutants including pet-dander in-order to help you live comfortably with pets.

GETS RID OF POLLEN

Holmes Small Room HEPA Air Purifier
Blueair Classic 605 Air Purifier
Yes

It uses a HEPA-filter and an optional ionizer to trap and eliminate pollen and other airborne-particles.

Yes

Its HEPAsilent-particle-filter helps to remove 99.97% of airborne-pollutants including pollen.

REMOVES SMOKE

Holmes Small Room HEPA Air Purifier
Blueair Classic 605 Air Purifier
Yes

It uses an activated carbon filter and an optional ionizing function to trap and eliminate smoke and other household-odors.

Yes

It uses a SmokeStop-filter to create an extra-level of activated carbon filtration in-order to remove smoke from your house.

REMOVES MOLD

Holmes Small Room HEPA Air Purifier
Blueair Classic 605 Air Purifier
Yes

Its uses a HEPA type filter to remove up-to 99% of mold and other airborne-particles as small as 2-microns

Yes

Uses a particle-filter with HEPAsilent-technology to capture 99.97% of air airborne-pollutants including mold.

TRAPS ALLERGENS

Holmes Small Room HEPA Air Purifier
Blueair Classic 605 Air Purifier
Yes

This unit uses a HEPA-filter to trap 99% of typical airborne-allergens while its optional ionizing function improves on performance.

Yes

It uses a HEPAsilent particle-filter that combines an electrostatic charge and mechanical filtration to effectively remove airborne allergens and pollutants.

QUIET OPERATION

Holmes Small Room HEPA Air Purifier
Blueair Classic 605 Air Purifier
Yes

Select a lower-speed for continued purification with less ambient noise.

Yes

It ensures whisper-quiet operation so as to allow you sleep easier without disruption. In fact, this device features whisper-silent filters that ensure maximum airflow.

WASHABLE PRE-FILTERS

Holmes Small Room HEPA Air Purifier
Blueair Classic 605 Air Purifier
Yes

You can easily wash and reuse the pre-filter but other filters are replaceable.

No

EASY FILTER REPLACEMENT

Holmes Small Room HEPA Air Purifier
Blueair Classic 605 Air Purifier
Yes

Both filters can be easily accessed through a pop-off cover at the front. So, you don’t need any tools or professional-help to change the filters.

Yes

This device requires very little maintenance and changing its filters takes only seconds without requiring any complicated tools.

AUTOMATICALLY DETECTS AIRBORNE PARTICLES

Holmes Small Room HEPA Air Purifier
Blueair Classic 605 Air Purifier
No

Yes

You can add an optional Blueair Aware air monitor to allow this device to automatically monitor air-quality while sending updates in real-time to your phone so that can take necessary action.

SLEEP MODE

Holmes Small Room HEPA Air Purifier
Blueair Classic 605 Air Purifier
Yes

It can be set to the lowest speed-setting in-order to provide continuous air-purification with less ambient noise (white-noise) so that you can sleep better.

Yes

With Night-Mode scheduled, this device will be whisper silent and emit no light so that you can enjoy your sleep at night.

WATTAGE

Holmes Small Room HEPA Air Purifier
Blueair Classic 605 Air Purifier
Yes

Its uses 49.5-watts on the highest speed-setting and less than 5-watts on the lowest speed setting.

Yes

It uses 15-watts on speed-1, 60-watts on speed-2 and 100-watts on speed-3. This makes it very energy efficient and economical.

ENERGY STAR

Holmes Small Room HEPA Air Purifier
Blueair Classic 605 Air Purifier
Yes

Its Energy-star rated because it consumes less power even when running on the highest speed-setting. In fact, its maximum energy consumption is 49.5-watts.

Yes

Its Energy-star rated for low energy consumption specially when operating on speed 1 and 2.

Blueair Classic 605 Air Purifier

USABILITY

CONTROLS AND MODES

Holmes Small Room HEPA Air Purifier
Blueair Classic 605 Air Purifier
Yes

It features 2 sliding switch controls for selecting between 3 speed-settings and the other switch for power on/off.

Yes

It features a new flip-top display with different touch-controls and LED-indicators. In fact, it has 3 fan-speeds, Wi-Fi, filter-change-indicator and power-button.

FILTER REPLACEMENT REMINDER

Holmes Small Room HEPA Air Purifier
Blueair Classic 605 Air Purifier
Yes

There is a filter change indicator to let you know when it’s time to change the HEPA-type-filter and carbon-filter.

Yes

Features a filter change indicator light that will alert you when it’s time to change the filters.

ECONOMICAL

Holmes Small Room HEPA Air Purifier
Blueair Classic 605 Air Purifier
Yes

This device consumes less power and its filters are very affordable thus making it very economical.

Yes

This unit is very economical because it uses only 15-watts on the lowest-speed-setting and 100-watts on the highest-speed-setting

AFFORDABLE

Holmes Small Room HEPA Air Purifier
Blueair Classic 605 Air Purifier
Yes

This unit is very affordable and you should actually acquire it to receive clean and purified air at all times.

No

IDEAL FOR ASTHMATIC PEOPLE

Holmes Small Room HEPA Air Purifier
Blueair Classic 605 Air Purifier
Yes

Its HEPA-type-filter helps to remove up-to 99% of airborne-allergens down to 2-microns so as to provide cleaner air for asthamtic-people.

Yes

Uses a patented HEPAsilent particle-filter to eliminate 99.97% of airborne-pollutants that cause asthma and other allergies.

ALEXA COMPATIBLE

Holmes Small Room HEPA Air Purifier
Blueair Classic 605 Air Purifier
No

Yes

This device is compatible with Amazon-Alexa so as to facilitate for remote voice-control while at home. It’s even compatible with other smart-home-systems like; IFTTT.

REMOTE CONTROL

Holmes Small Room HEPA Air Purifier
Blueair Classic 605 Air Purifier
No

Yes

It can be remotely controlled via the Blueair-Friend-app installed on your Smartphone but it requires connecting both devices on a Wi-Fi network.

FILTER LIFE - BASED ON USE

Holmes Small Room HEPA Air Purifier
Blueair Classic 605 Air Purifier
Yes

The HEPA-TYPE-Filter and Carbon-filter should be replaced once every 3-to-4 months. However, you can rinse the carbon pre-filter well to save some bucks.

Yes

It is recommended to replace all filters every 6-months or depending on use and the air-quality of the area you live in.

Blueair Classic 605 Air Purifier

SAFETY

CHILD LOCK

Holmes Small Room HEPA Air Purifier
Blueair Classic 605 Air Purifier
No

Yes

Has a child-lock feature that can be set from the mobile-App in-order to ensure optimum safety in homes with kids and pets.

OZONE FREE

Holmes Small Room HEPA Air Purifier
Blueair Classic 605 Air Purifier
No

Yes

This unit is certified by the California Air Resources Board for no ozone emissions.

Blueair Classic 605 Air Purifier

APPEARANCE

DESIGN

Holmes Small Room HEPA Air Purifier
Blueair Classic 605 Air Purifier
Yes

Features a slim, dual-positioning design which makes it easy to set on any surface either vertically or horizontally. It also features a compact desktop-design with 2 sliding switches on top.

Yes

Features a sleek, Swedish style, tower-shaped body with a new flip-top display featuring touch-controls and different LED-indicators. It also features a galvanized steel housing with powder-coated finish.

SIZE AND APPEARANCE

Holmes Small Room HEPA Air Purifier
Blueair Classic 605 Air Purifier
Yes

Has a dimension of: 6.34"H x 13.07"W x 9.72"L. It also features a compact, lightweight and multi-color body made of durable ABS-plastic coupled with 2 control sliding switches at the top.

Yes

Has dimensions of 26"H x 20"W x 13"D. It also features a tower-shaped-body with a new flip-top display featuring touch-controls.

WEIGHT

Holmes Small Room HEPA Air Purifier
Blueair Classic 605 Air Purifier
Yes

5.65-pounds which makes it very lightweight and easy to carry and move form room-to-room. It’s also a great choice for travellers.

Yes

Has a weight of 16kgs (31-Lbs) coupled with castors wheels which makes it easy to move around your house.

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