Air Purifiers for Easier Breathing
Our team recommends whole-home IAQ testing as a starting point. Professional analysis can reveal indoor pollutant sources, which you can then take steps to mitigate. It can also reveal air quality challenges you don’t have direct control over. For those, there is a variety of equipment you can add to your system to protect your family.
Clean air in the home often begins with strong HVAC maintenance. You should schedule fall heating tune-ups and spring cooling tune-ups annually. It’s also important that you choose a high-quality HVAC filter. Many modern systems support filters with MERV ratings as high as 13.
Traditional in-duct air purifiers can filter all the air in a home multiple times per hour. These systems typically have a mechanical filter. HEPA filters are a common choice as they trap over 99% of dust, pet dander, pollen, and other allergens. This type of air purifier will often have activated charcoal as well. The charcoal provides odor control and adsorbs gases and chemicals.
An alternative is a system that filters the air by charging particles and then dispersing them. Those ionized particles then attach to pollutants and disable them. One advantage to this approach is that pollution control occurs beyond just the ducts. Some of these systems can even disinfect surfaces in this manner.