My other half has had problems with his breathing for a little while.
He went to the doctors and was told he might have adult set asthma ,was sent home with a thing to measure the airflow(3x a day) and inhaler.
We obviously do not yet know if it is asthma but it has made me decide we should really get something to clean the air indoors as the air must be full of animal dust (dog and we also have a parrot that is very dusty).
They recommend to have one if you have dusty birds anyway(white/grey birds are the worst) as they produce fine dust and this can be very bad for your health.
I have always had it at the back of my mind and have always been thinking we should get airpurifier but never actually done it.

I have started to look but there are so many different ones about I have no idea where to start. Hepa,carbon filter, ionizer etc
We can spend around £250 for it (I assume this would get reasonably good one) but I obviously do not want to waste the money and pay silly amount for something that really is not any better than the under £100 machines.

Anybody any recommendations or maybe places I could start looking.

So all we all breathing dusty air then :) :)
As I don't know what I'm looking for, I might have to get one that has all different technologies put together :) ££££

I bought one in the summer but it was just a cheap one from the chemist and it was on special when I bought the prong things that stop hayfever.  It makes a noise like a wee motor running so I didn't use it much and certainly not enough to notice a difference.

Hi, I bought a couple of the ionising air purifiers from lloyds pharmacy http://www.lloydspharmacy.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=1008&storeId=90&productId=6801&langId=-1&parent_category_rn=18354&top=&top_category=18352&gclid=CIzkiaqG7JgCFZCD3godqBO70w. They seem ok but I had them situated next to the wall and ended up with filthy, dusty areas on the walls which I didn't like. These are now in the loft and I bought a couple of pureair machines http://www.pureaire.co.uk/?gclid=CJziuqSI7JgCFQpNQwodtXvl0w which I absolutely LOVE! You add essential oils to the water which smell lovely and judging by the colour of the water after a few hours of use, they obviously drag some impurities from the air. I don't know about the larger,  more expensive machines so couldn't really help with those. I hope that your husband feels better soon.

> So all we all breathing dusty air then

Yep - seems so here Noora :-p 
I wsh I could help you but we've not bought one - the blaster takes care of the dust and dander from dogs so minimises any dust in the house but I'm not sure how to go about blasting a parrot ..............  

Perhaps best you keep shopping around for the purifiers :-D

hayley, the one from Lloyds is the one I have and it is gathering dust in the cupboard rather than solving the dust problem in the living room!

Teri, when you blast the dander out of them, where does it go?

I'm not being Facetious - really   -  I'm allergic to dander in particular. :-(
It's easy to see the hair to pick up but what about the Dander?

Blasting is very much an outdoors only pursuit sis - sorry, perhaps not obvious from my post :)

It makes a huge difference with 'the kids'.  Before getting one apart from lots of hairs everywhere dusting was really a twice daily job.  The difference is amazing when the dogs are done (say, approx every 10-14 days outwith moulting times).  There seems to be no dust anywhere and a quick flick around surfaces once or at most twice a week is sufficient so it definitely makes a big difference.  When doing them I can see dust & dander flying off in wispy clouds and doing the back of their neck it's easy to see it blowing onto the top of their heads - just shows how little is removed even by regular grooming!

My tornado drier, within the house, is just spreading it about I suppose, judging from the copious amounts of 'stour'.
Add the fact that I need the coats "flat, without curl, slight wave permissable", I'm stuffed really.
I think I need it switched to suck instead of blow :-)

What about the tumble drier..... :-)   only kidding folks.... no dogs were harmed in the making of this little joke.

> My tornado drier, within the house

inside   I once used mine in the garage to stay out of the rain (about 5 years ago - lots of hairs still evident :-D )  Different coats of course - it's great for the terrorists but not every breed.

Hoover tools (or tumbler) sound like your best bet ;)