Take Charge of Your Home's Air Quality
Indoor air quality can impact your family’s health, specifically if there’s someone in your family with allergies, asthma or other respiratory issues. Dust, pollen, pet dander and mold can trigger symptoms, as well as volatile organic compounds. VOCs are chemicals that are part of common household items such as cleaning products, furniture and flooring.
Today’s houses are more energy efficient than ever, but they are also sealed more tightly. This means the air inside your home can be more polluted than outside—often two to five times more, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
There are methods you can use to take charge of your home’s air quality:
- Limit pollution sources
- Ventilate with fresh air
- Try better air filters
7 Signs You Should Try a Better Air Filtration System
There are a couple of signals that your home could benefit from a filtration system.
- Someone in your household has asthma or allergies.
- Headaches, congestion or sneezing are frequent when you’re home.
- Your home smells stuffy.
- You have pets that shed.
- Odors linger in your house.
- Someone in your home smokes.
- Your house is continuously dusty, despite regular cleaning.
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Which Air Filtration System Is Right for My Home?
A whole-home air purification system can take care of pollution in your home’s air. In fact, it can also offer relief to the asthma and allergy sufferers in your household.
Studies have found managing exposure to indoor allergens and tobacco smoke could stop 65 percent of asthma cases among elementary school-age children. And by controlling biological contaminants like dust mites, childhood asthma cases have also decreased by 55-60 percent.
HEPA Filters
The High Efficiency Particulate Air, or HEPA, filter, was designed to protect scientists from radiation as they worked on the atomic bomb during World War II. Today these filters are often used in hospitals and science labs, but you can even find one in a few homes.
HEPA filters are proven to take out 99.97 to 99.99% of particles sized 0.3 microns and bigger. This includes pollen, dirt and dust. A HEPA air cleaner with activated carbon filters can trap the particles from chemicals, odors and smoke.
These filters feature a MERV rating of 1721, depending on the brand. This rating shows how well a filter can pull out pollutants from the air.
Because of their high-efficiency filtration abilities, HEPA filters are thick and can limit airflow. It’s important to check with x to confirm your heating and cooling system can work with one.
Media Filters
Media air cleaners are sturdier than your standard air filters. They’re often four to five times wider—or more. This barrier is fixed tightly against your HVAC unit.
Because its filtration surface is usually around 10 inches, media filters are able to trap about 95 percent of particulates.
These filters stay fresher longer too, usually between three to six months.
Electrostatic Filters
There are a couple of electronic filtration systems you can install in your home.
An electrostatic filter uses magnetically charged substance to capture particles. These washable filters are 97 percent effective at clearing microscopic particles from your home’s air. In addition, they’re also 30 times more effective than ordinary filters.
An electronic air cleaner uses a high-voltage magnetic charge to trap particles.
Some models can remove the majority of indoor air pollutants—particles, germs, bacteria, chemical odors and vapors—by up to 99.9 percent. It can even decrease ozone, a known lung irritant, produced elsewhere in your home.
Air inside your home can be more polluted than the air outside—often two to five times more, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.