Breathe Clean – A Bagotte HEPA Air Purifier Review
In the continued years of the coronavirus, we’ve all, hopefully, have become to accustom a cleaner and healthier lifestyle. Over the past year we’ve, as a collective, learn to wash our hands, clean our areas, and keep distance between total strangers.
As government entities have us believe, the coronavirus is to be transmitted through air particles from speaking, sneezing, and coughing. It’s the whole reason they’ve been attempting to impose mask mandates across the globe.
The dirty little truth is that the air we’ve been breathing since the dawn of this planet has never truly been clean. Or healthy; or safe. Living creatures have spent this globe’s existence getting sick through the very air we breathe and, in some countries, the air smog is so bad it causes additional harm.
While the air may be dirty, humans have lived on successfully with our own bodies taking action against the harmful air particles in the wild, but that doesn’t mean we can’t help out our bodies.
Back in November of 2020, I traveled down to Texas via an airplane and one of the “safety” measures against the virus was the fact that every 20 minutes the airplane recycles the cabin air with fresh outdoor air through a HEPA filter.
HEPA stands for high-efficiency particulate air and HEPA filters are designed specifically to capture tiny nasty air molecules from circling around in the air you breathe.
Take a pollen for example. When spring hits, pollen floats around from the blooming flowers and to most people, it causes them to sneeze. Not only is pollen floating around your indoor living area, but so are wet, and nasty, sneeze particles as well. This is where an indoor HEPA filter can help you.
With protection against virtually every negative air particle: allergies, pet hair, smoke, odors, and sickness, Bagotte has an affordable, quiet, and efficient little air purifier that stops bad air in its tracks; or rather in its HEPA filter. Let’s take a look.
Welcome to my review of the Bagotte HEPA Air Purifier.
Design
Measuring at only 19 inches tall, 12 inches wide, and 6 inches deep, the compact Bagotte Air Purifier is a plastic white shell that contains a blower style fan and, of course, a large HEPA filter right in the center.
The front of the device is covered in a crisscross mesh pattern that looks aesthetically appeasing from a distance. As such, the aesthetics of the air purifier do fit in quite well with virtually any room in any environment. It’s compact sizing allows it to tuck away in a corner beside a table, plant, or out in the open.
On the top black fascia, you’ll find the air purifier’s touch controls. From left to right, you’ll find a filter replacement LED and reset switch, fan speed, 1/2/4/8-hour timer selector, and the power button.
The touch buttons are a bit sensitive, but fully functional and easy to use. When placed in a bedroom, I would have preferred Bagotte go with green status LEDs compared to the bright Blue ones on the unit now. The beep indicator to symbolize you’ve pressed a button is also a tick too loud for my liking.
As for the rest of the design, the front meshed cover on the front can be popped off with little ease to reveal the large Bagotte provided HEPA filter.
I’ve reviewed other Bagotte devices in the past and I’m quite pleased once again with how well designed and simplistic their Air Purifier is. They take a basic product and make it fit into any home and perfect for any room.
Functionality
At its peak performance, the Bagotte Air Purifier has a Clean Air Delivery Rate of 210m^3/h which allows it to clean the air of larger rooms (270 sq. ft.) about 3 – 4 times in an hour. Very similar to how the airplane replaces its air with fresh cleaned outside air while flying.
For the past month, I’ve had the Bagotte Air Purifier running in the living room right off of my kitchen. In this apartment, the space is wide open with the only walled-off “rooms” being the bedroom and bathroom.
My favorite feature of the air purifier is its ability to capture odor. Whenever I am cooking indoors, I often use my indoor grill. While it’s virtually smokeless, it still creates food smelling odors and when I accidentally burn something while cooking, it doesn’t smell good.
Now, every time I cook dinner, I quickly turn on the air purifier and it easily captures all of those odors, among other things, and I never have any after-effect dinner smell lingering around in my place. It’s brilliant.
Next, as we get closer and closer to spring and as these trees and flowers begin to pollen, it’s going to introduce allergies. While this doesn’t affect me as much, it does really hinder a lot of people every year with constant sneezing.
The large Bagotte HEPA filter can capture floating pollen that makes its way inside your home with the 3-stage filter. The first stage captures lint, dust, and pet fur, the second removes pollen, mold, and sickness, and then the activated carbon balls capture the cooking smell and bad odors I mentioned.
Air is pulled through the filter towards the lower bottom with a heavy blower fan. While large, the fan is actually very quiet on the lower speed setting. Only using 30 watts, on the 1 – 2 speed levels, most people wouldn’t even know it was running. Bump that to 3 – 4 and it just sounds like a normal house fan.
Bagotte’s filter is rated for a 6 – 8-month lifespan which is about expected for a HEPA filter of this size and general use.
In the end, I certainly feel like the air in my apartment is cleaner, but I have no true way of testing that besides my own breathing and lack of sneezing. Over this months’ time, I’m quite happy.
My Final Thoughts
Priced at $99.99 (on sale with a $20 off coupon), the Bagotte HEPA Air Purifier is by far one of my most liked device I’ve reviewed in a while.
The compact size lets the device seamlessly tuck away in any room while providing whole room coverage with a powerful, yet quiet flower fan that stops nasty air particles right in their tracks through its 3-stage HEPA filter.
As we continue through the COVID lifestyle and enter the pollen filled air of spring, I can’t recommend this Bagotte device enough and have virtually no complaints.
© 2021 Justin Vendette
