Before you buy for 1,076 sq ft100 m²
What 1,076 sq ft100 m² looks like
An office floor, a waiting room or a whole flat: about 30 × 36 ft (9 × 11 m)about 9 × 11 m (30 × 36 ft). With a 2.5 m ceiling that's 250 m³ of air to pass through a filter 4.8 times an hour.
How the picks differ
Spare air: none for the Levoit EverestAir-Ps and 68% for the Medify MA-112s. The more air to spare, the slower and quieter they can run here to keep up (more on noise).
Only the Levoit EverestAir-P has a PM2.5 sensor with auto mode. None has an ionizer.
New filters: every 12–15 months for the Levoit EverestAir-P and every 4 months for the Medify MA-112 (filters). The Levoit EverestAir-P is the most compact at 58.9 cm tall and 9.4 kg; the Medify MA-112 stands 71.9 cm and weighs 14.9 kg.
High ceilings
With a 2.7 m ceiling this room needs 1,296 m³/h of smoke CADR, with 3 m 1,440 m³/h. At 3 m only the Medify MA-112 still covers it. (Why ceilings matter)
Open-plan
Bigger than this, count each room behind a closed door separately: one purifier can’t clean the room next door (more).
Where to put it
For a whole flat, classroom or office floor, one unit per room or zone beats one big unit in the hall: doors stop the air. (Where to put it)