Breville the Smart Air Connect LAP308WHT

It's been worth it – I bought this was 18 months ago and barely used it. However, we moved house and I started using it in the lounge room because my partner vapes inside and I don't like to open the window because the broken fence outside is asbestos. I've basically just used this machine for airflow, almost like a fan. That is, until yesterday....for a week I've had acute bronchitis after catching a cold and the coughing really started to get on my nerves (it's been 10 days, my patience is thin now). So, I spent the day cleaning the house and vaccuming etc to try and get rid of any amount of irritation that I can, just to catch a break from the coughing.

I moved the purifier into the spare room where I've been sleeping so I don't wake my partner up, and I left it it on medium all night. After 15 minutes I stopped coughing and I didn't cough once all night! On top of that, my nose was clear and I just felt like I could generally breathe.

I told my partner because yesterday he was saying I'm just being silly, I'm sick and cleaning everything isn't going to fix it, and I said "But we've been using this a lot in the lounge and if you think about it, there's no dust in here" and he was shocked, the penny dropped that the TV cabinet hadn't been wiped down for 6 months, yet it really has no dust to bother wiping down.

I absolutely love this thing now! The fact that it gave me relief for this never ending cough has been a game changer. I've done everything else (cough medicine, steam therapy, puffer, tea etc), nothing has brought me the relief that this air purifier has.

Poor quality and faulty product – Bought this product a week ago. Air quality light wasn't working properly (Didn't change colour from blue at all) and instructions said to make sure UV-C light is working or get it serviced. But there was no light showing UV-C on control panel and instruction book didn't show where it was either so retailer told us to contact Breville. It took them 2 days to get back to us and they told us to test air quality light by putting dusty tissue over sensor and see if it changed then. They didn't seem to know where the UV-C light was either as they could give us no answer to that. After leaving the purifier running all night for several nights and several hours per day in a couple of different rooms my wife noticed no difference in her hay fever and allergies and when I checked filters they had no dust on them at all after all that time. Very low suction around unit so assume it was not drawing enough air in to achieve anything. Returned to retailer. Very disappointing