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Easter is unfortunately a mass pollution event in the Netherlands because of the tradition of Easter fires here, so it's especially important to have a decent air filter system on this weekend.

Therefore it's air filter day in our household.

For some time I've been filtering inbound air in our home through a Philips FY0194 HEPA filter. This is the same type as used in our portable AC819 air cleaners. The filter worked very well for this use, but over a year it has become full of dust and the air flow was obviously a bit restricted.

Today I've replaced the Philips filter with an Ikea Starkvind filter, with a new construction using a box instead of the filter being attached as it was previously. The same fan is drawing air through the system as before.

The Starkvind filter costs €12 and offers a 15% greater active filter area than the Philips filter which now costs a slightly absurd €30. So this will reduce the annual cost quite a lot for the price of a bit of DIY.

I also cleaned the filters in our Philips AC0819 air filters. They don't dirty as quickly as the one which all the air comes through, but they do collect a fair bit of dust and fluff which I swept and blew off in the garden.
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