INDOOR AIR QUALITY
The Importance of Indoor Air Quality for Health
Clean air is important to maintain the comfort, health, and quality of your life. Every time you close windows and doors and turn on your HVAC system, the quality of the air inside decreases drastically. Modern insulation makes it nearly impossible for air to ventilate properly and as a result, many homes contain high amounts of air pollution. For this reason, Air Novations highly recommends the installation of an indoor air quality system. These systems, designed to filter and clean pollutants and contaminants from your indoor air, can greatly reduce the consequences of poor ventilation, reduce allergen levels, and keep you breathing cleaner air more comfortably.
How Does Indoor Air Quality Affect My Health?
Pollution is one of the main concerns surrounding indoor air quality. What causes poor indoor air quality depends on local air quality, your lifestyle, and the ventilation system in your home. Dander, pollen, dust and more build up in your indoor air and can inflame allergies and make people sick. The effects of poor indoor air quality range from mild allergic reactions to severe reactions from contaminants like smoke, gases, bacteria, and viruses. AirNow.gov provides an air quality index chart which explains your risks based on the quality of the air in your home.
Mold is another common concern surrounding indoor air quality. Regardless of the humidity level in your home, you will be dealing with mold spores if your home is not properly regulated. Mold is known to cause a variety of health issues, such as nose and throat irritation, skin irritation, and eye irritation. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reports that mold is linked to upper respiratory tract infections and respiratory illness. Likewise, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Mayo Clinic agree that conditions like Mold Toxcity occur in otherwise healthy individuals.
Aerus ActivePure® technology Air Scrubber
One popular option in solving air quality issues is the Aerus ActivePure® technology Air Scrubber. This product is a relatively new system designed to dramatically reduce air pollutants, chemical odors, dust, pollen, and mold in your home. It can even help eliminate smells and pollutants from cigarette smoke and pets, keeping the air in your home healthy, clean, and smelling fresh.
Cleaning Your Air
Indoor air pollution levels in American homes range anywhere from 5 to 100 times higher than pollution in outdoor air. These indoor pollutants can cause your family a great deal of discomfort, from asthma flareups and respiratory issues to potentially more serious illnesses.
Your family doesn't have to suffer from poor indoor air quality anymore. Air Novations has a variety of systems available that can help remove pollutants and keep you and your family healthy and comfortable.
The most common system you can have installed is a HEPA air filter. Installed at your air handler, these higher-grade filters can provide protection between 6 and 50 times more effective than the stock filters in your air handler alone.
Air purifiers and cleaners go one step further and remove the smallest pollutants like smoke and airborne particles from cooking that are often too small for a media filter to remove from your indoor air supply.
UV Lights
If your family members have acute sensitivities to pollutants and contaminants in the air like pet hair, dander, mites, etc. an additional set of UV lights can be installed by your Air Novations technician to combat these organic contaminants.
Reduction of Airborne Pathogens
UV light has germicidal properties that can kill or deactivate microorganisms like bacteria, viruses, and mold spores as air passes through the HVAC system. This leads to cleaner, healthier air circulating throughout your home.
Allergy Relief
By reducing the number of allergens such as mold spores and dust mites, UV light can help alleviate symptoms for those people with severe allergies, respiratory issues, or compromised immune systems.
HVAC System Components
UV light can prevent mold and mildew from growing on the damp surfaces of your HVAC system’s coils and ducts. Mold growth in these areas can reduce system efficiency and contribute to poor indoor air quality.
By keeping the interior of your HVAC system mold-free, UV lights can reduce the need for frequent cleaning and maintenance.
UV light helps keep the evaporator coils in your HVAC system free from microbial buildup. Clean coils operate more efficiently, allowing your system to maintain optimal airflow and cooling performance.
An efficient HVAC system that doesn’t have to work as hard to move air or cool your home can lead to lower energy consumption and reduced utility bills.
By reducing the buildup of contaminants on your HVAC system components, UV light can help prevent the system from working harder than necessary. This can lead to less wear and tear and potentially extend the life of your HVAC system.
Odor Elimination
UV light can help eliminate and neutralize unpleasant odors caused by microbial growth, such as mold or bacteria, within your HVAC system. This results in fresher, cleaner-smelling air throughout your home.
Air Purification
Unlike portable air purifiers, which only clean the air in a single room, UV light systems installed into your HVAC system work continuously, purifying the air throughout your entire home.
Low Maintenance
Typically, the UV bulbs need to be replaced annually, which is a relatively simple and cost-effective task.
Combined Effect
UV light complements your existing HVAC air handler filters and any HEPA filtration by targeting and neutralizing microorganisms that traditional filters might not capture. This provides an additional layer of air purification.
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