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What Room & Filter provides

Four reader-first services, all free: guides sized from the published EPA CADR rows, a tool that reads the same rows, comparisons that publish only what the sources publish, and sizing help answered from the same table.

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The services

4 ways in

Independent buying guides

Guides that size a purifier from the published EPA minimum CADR for the room, with no coverage claims and no invented figures.

  • Every minimum comes from the six published EPA rows, quoted verbatim with the retrieval date on the page.
  • Where the dataset has no answer, the page says so: there is no published CADR for gases, odours or VOCs.
  • Category suggestions only, never per-model verdicts or prices.

CADR sizing tool

An instant room-size lookup that reads the same published table the guides quote.

  • Type a room size, get the published minimum, rounded up to the larger row when a room sits between two published sizes.
  • No interpolation, no extrapolation past 600 sq ft, and every refusal says why in plain text.
  • The tool and the pages read one dataset, so they never disagree.

Side-by-side comparisons

Comparisons built from published rows only, so the table holds exactly what the sources hold.

  • Published figures side by side, each row carrying its citation.
  • Where nothing comparable is published, the table says so instead of estimating.
  • A filled suggestion once per screen, and the answer comes before the commerce.

Custom sizing help

Readers write in with a room and a question, and the answer comes from the same published rows.

  • Send your room size and what you are trying to remove; the reply uses the published minimum for that area.
  • If the table has no figure for the case, the reply says so rather than inventing one.
  • Free, read by a human, and corrections get answered, not archived.

How a recommendation earns its place

Figures with one source

Every number traces to the Guide to Air Cleaners in the Home (2nd edition) (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency), transcribed verbatim with the retrieval date on the page. Nothing published elsewhere gets averaged in.

Cloak-free labeling

Every shopping link is labeled, routes through a logged redirect and carries rel="sponsored nofollow noopener". The disclosure renders above the first affiliate link on every page, not buried in the footer.

The answer outranks the click

One filled suggestion per screen. If a page cannot prove its claim from the published data, the claim does not ship.

Read the affiliate disclosure

Source of record for every figure on this site: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Guide to Air Cleaners in the Home (2nd edition) (retrieved 2026-08-30).

Questions readers ask

3 answered

Do you charge for anything on this site?

No. The guides, the CADR tool, the comparisons and the custom sizing help are free to read and use. The site earns affiliate commissions when a reader chooses to shop through a category link, at no extra cost to the reader.

Where do your figures come from?

Every published figure traces to the Guide to Air Cleaners in the Home (2nd edition) (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, retrieved 2026-08-30). Figures are transcribed verbatim and cited on the page, above any affiliate link. The site does not publish averages, estimates or numbers borrowed from other datasets.

How does Room & Filter make money?

Through affiliate commissions on category-level shopping links. Those links are labeled, carry rel="sponsored nofollow noopener", and the disclosure sits above the first link on every page. If the published table has no figure for a question, the page says so instead of recommending around it.