Urban living and a Canadian climate that significantly changes season to season makes maintaining the temperature and air quality in our homes all the more important. Smartmi’s Rainforest humidifier and P1 air purifier will not only help you feel comfortable in your living space, they will look good doing it. Enter this contest for a chance to win one of these elegant appliances and find out what you can do to ensure the air your breathe at home is up to snuff (or sniff).

The importance of healthy home air quality

I first learned about the dangers of air particulates in the home when publishing a review here on the blog on the Airthings Radon monitor. Dust, pollen, pet dander, chemicals, smoke from forest fires, and city smog can all infiltrate your home and reduce the quality of the air you breathe. If you are susceptible to seasonal allergies or have sensitive sinuses and skin, it can become very uncomfortable to constantly be sniffling or have a partially blocked nose and itchy eyes. To make matters worse, often it’s the pollutants we cannot see or identify that make us feel the most discomfort in our own homes.

Long term exposure to lower quality air reduces sleep quality and can make the body’s resistance to seasonal flu and colds weaker. Dry air also dehydrates the skin and worsens conditions like eczema and asthma. So, placing humidifiers and air purifiers in the home can make a huge difference to optimizing your indoor air quality, especially for homes with children and pets. Read the blog reviews of the Smartmi P1 air purifier and Rainforest humidifier to learn how they perform in action.

7 tips to improve your home air quality

If you’d like to see a positive change in the air quality of your living space, here are some practical tips that will help:

  1. Cross ventilate: Though this is harder in the winter months, opening multiple windows or doors (even just a crack) for a few hours in the day will allow fresh outdoor air to circulate through rooms. This helps remove indoor pollutants and replenishes oxygen levels.
  2. Use HEPA air purifiers: True High Efficiency Particulate Air (HEPA) purifiers filter out 99.97% of particles as small as 0.3 microns, including dust, pollen, pet dander, and even some bacteria. These air purifiers reduce allergens and respiratory irritants, providing cleaner air for you to breathe.
  3. Optimize humidity with humidifiers: Humidifiers help to add water to the air, which is very helpful during long winter months when heaters are always on. Optimal indoor humidity levels, between 30 – 50%, can mitigate water loss through the skin and prevent respiratory discomfort.
  4. Vacuum regularly: Vacuuming floors, carpets, and upholstery regularly with a HEPA filter-equipped vacuum will reduce the presence of dust and other allergens in the air, thus improving the quality of the air you breathe in.
  5. Reduce VOC products: Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) are emitted by various household products, such as cleaning liquids or paint, and contribute to indoor air pollution. Whenever possible, choose VOC-free or low VOC products to prevent those particulates from entering your home’s air system.
  6. Invest in houseplants: If you have a green thumb, maintaining houseplants like the spider plant, snake plant, or philodendron can help naturally purify indoor air by absorbing pollutants and releasing oxygen. They may not be as effective as an electric air purifier but they will add a pleasing green to your home.
  7. Maintain HVAC systems: Ensure your home’s heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system is well-maintained. Replace filters regularly and clean ducts or dusty areas behind walls and under floors to improve system efficiency.

How to enter

Entering this contest is easy and you can enter in three different ways:

  1. In a comment below tell us which of the seven tips listed you find the most useful for your home, or feel free to share your own practical air quality improvement tip.
  2. In a comment below the review of the Smartmi P1 air purifier tell us which of its features is your favourite and why.
  3. In a comment below the review of the Rainforest humidifier tell us which room in your home you would place the humidifier in and why.

What you can win

At the end of the contest, we will randomly select two (2) winners from all eligible entries. One winner will receive the Smartmi Rainforest humidifier and the other will receive the Smartmi P1 air purifier.

This contest runs from Aug 14th to Aug 28th.

Remember you can enter up to three times to have the best chance of winning. Home air quality is not often talked about even though we spend a majority of our time eating, sleeping, and relaxing in our living spaces. Share this contest with anyone you think would benefit from better home air quality and encourage them to enter to have a chance to win.

Contest Rules: Smartmi Air Quality

Good luck!

Mahima Bhagwat
Mahima Bhagwat
Mahima is an editor at Best Buy Canada. She likes to watch sci-fi, supernatural, horror, and comedy TV shows and movies, and plays video games in her free time. When not avidly consuming content, she pursues her passion for storytelling by editing books and short stories, specializing in speculative fiction.

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655 COMMENTS

  1. My favourite feature of the Smartmi P1 Air Purifier is the quiet setting because my current air purifier is too loud to keep running while we sleep.

  2. I find tip 5 the most useful: Reduce VOC products. Something a lot of people don’t necessarily think about!

  6. I like the real-time feedback of the air quality level and particulate concentration, so can efficiently use the device

  9. I tend to only use humidifiers when someone is congested; I don’t use them regularly. Good reminder that I should use them more often.

  10. Vacuuming is important in the winter months with the dust and especially so with pets and their fur and dander. Especially in the winter when you can’t cross ventilate

  16. I found house plants an interesting tidbid I didn’t even think of!

    Invest in houseplants: If you have a green thumb, maintaining houseplants like the spider plant, snake plant, or philodendron can help naturally purify indoor air by absorbing pollutants and releasing oxygen. They may not be as effective as an electric air purifier but they will add a pleasing green to your home.

  17. Out of the 7 tips to improve my home’s air quality, investing in plants I find the most useful. It also brings an aestetic ambiance in the home as well. The feature of the Smartmi P1 Air Purifier I like best is it’s compact size. My house is small and it would be easy to have it in any room. I would put the rainforest humidifier in my new office. I was just thinking of buying a fountain and this would be perfect. I love listening to the imitation rainforest sound.

  25. Monique L.S. August 21, 2023 At 11:57 am
    The tip: Optimize humidity with humidifiers is helpful to me. I tend to only use humidifiers when someone is congested; I don’t use them regularly. Good reminder that I should use them more often.

  26. The tip: Optimize humidity with humidifiers is helpful to me. I tend to only use humidifiers when someone is congested; I don’t use them regularly. Good reminder that I should use them more often.

  27. I like to vacuum regularly with a HEPA filter-equipped vacuum in order to reduce the presence of dust and other allergens in the air.

  28. Vacuum regularly!! Doing home daycare and having a Golden Retriever requires a lot of vacuuming to keep dust and allergens away!!

  29. 1. Vacuum regularly
    2.real-time feedback of the air quality level and particulate concentration, so can efficiently use the device
    3. would place it in my bedroom as the air is dry from heating in the winter

  30. Opening windows at least a few inches for cross breeze is the best air circulator. I like the humidifier because it is warm air, and cozy and good for melting vaporub. The air purifier sounds great because it clears smoke so quickly.Thankyou. Jennifer

  34. I have just bought a bunch of house plants and a new vacuum! Originally from NZ I hadn’t even heard about humidifiers… we used dehumidifiers to stop our houses from getting too damp!

  35. We vacuum regularly, but we also have houseplants to help. The trick is to keep my wife from killing them!

  38. Maintain HVAC systems-is the most useful because it is very important and many people neglect it including myself.

  44. A houseplant in every room, and i keep my doors and windows closed during hot dry summer periods. Less dust in the home. And vacuum regularly.

  45. Reducing VOC products in my house is the most helpful tip that I really didn’t think about and will start looking for better cleaner products

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