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

  6. Smartmi P1 air purifier would be an amazing addition to my home with the cross ventilation to purify the air. My sinuses always dry up and I have such a hard time breathing at night. But reading about your Rainforest humidifier would find one very comforting and a good addition to my home.

  12. I mostly use the cross ventilation method with opening a small bit to allow fresh air into the home. I like the plant idea but have to watch or be careful as I have a cat. I have put plants up high where they cannot bother them and this will work for me too.

  15. I never heard of VOC, I hope my acrylic paints are ok because I use them a lot. I suffer allergies year round, so I try to keep the dust down, which means changing filters often. Good luck everyone, that air purifier looks great!

  18. Optimize humidity with humidifiers. – My son’s new house is very dry in the winter months. This would be a gift for him.

  23. Maintain HVAC systems by replacing filters regularly and cleaning ducts or dusty areas behind walls and under floors to improve system efficiency.

    This is a very useful reminder.

  27. I found the tip that was most interesting was the “Vacuum regularly” because I did not know what an impact it makes.

  29. I would definitely put the humidifier in my room or very close because I wake up with bloody nose often.

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

  33. For me the cross ventilating is the most useful tip. It just makes sense to circulate the air throughout the house and to bring in the fresh outside air.

  34. the most simple tip for me to follow was to invest in house plants to help clean the air and they look beautiful too

  37. We should cross ventilate with open windows more often here to clear the air and get more oxygen in the house. Thanks for the contest!

  42. Cross ventilate since that one is the only one I haven’t been doing. My first thought was why open the window when it’s cold outside. And then my second thought was wouldn’t that make the house work harder (by generating heat). I guess it’s okay as long as we’re not letting the cold air in for too long or while we’re working the heater.

  44. Optimizing humidity with humidifiers is a great tip – keeping your house at an ideal humidity percentage could also help with your immunity levels.

  45. Your Smartmi P1 air purifier would be an amazing addition to my bedroom as I have such a hard time sleeping due to the poor air quality in the air. My sinuses always dry up and I have such a hard time breathing at night. But reading about your Rainforest humidifier I am in love for sure. I am working towards getting my own place soon and it’s a passion of mine to get a ton of tall plants and turn my living room into a forest sanctuary with nature sounds. This way I can have my own piece of nature indoors to relax on my days off work.

  46. Cross ventilate regularly if weather allows to get rid of pollutants is something I gotta start doing.

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