Archive for April, 2009
Air Purifier
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Only some of us eat food, drink water or wear clothes that hadn’t first been washed or cleaned of impurities, but we always spend our days inhaling polluted air. And when impure air is trapped indoors, it collects dust, mold fungi, smoke and the germs, making it five to ten times dirtier than the air we breathe outside. A good air purifier makes your home or office environment healthier and help people cope with all kinds of allergies, but with so many air purifiers on the market, it can be difficult to buy the right one for you. We will try to help you make the right choice.
What is an air purifier?
An air purifier is a gadget which removes microorganisms from the air. Residential use air purifiers are usually marketed as being particularly beneficial to allergy sufferers and asthmatics, and at dropping down or removing second-hand tobacco smoke. Commercial grade air purifiers are made as both a small stand alone unit, and as larger units that can be affixed to an air handler unit (AHU) or to an HVAC (Heating Ventilation Air Conditioning) unit found in the medical, industrial, and commercial industries.
How to choose the best air purifier for your home?
One of the most important thing to look for when buying an air purifier is the right size for your room. Air purifiers are portable and can be moved from one room to another, provided the rooms are similar in size.
There are many types of air purifiers such as High Efficiency Particulate Air (HEPA) filters which are considered to be the most efficient air filters, Ion and Ozone Generators which cling to impurities in the air but is important to know that they are dangerous for people with asthma, and Electrostatic air purifier which uses charged plates that capture impurities in the air.
If you buy a large standing air filter that will cover a large area, you will want to choose a model that will blend in with your space. An air purifier doesn’t have to be an eyesore, so look around online to get the best one for your options.
A medium priced air purifier costs about 200$ but may be low maintenance, with no filters, no fan speeds and no controls. A good air filter costs about $400 but it has an internal ionizer with a HEPA carbon filter which will last at least 6 months, as well as a low noise level and four fan speeds.
Home Air Filters
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Fresh air is more important inside the house than outside. Using home air filters with a heating and cooling system makes a big difference in the quality of air circulating throughout your house. By choosing a good home air filter and changing it regularly will help your family breathe more easily and become healthier.
What is a home air filter?
We also know home air filters as furnace filters that keep the coils and heat exchanges on the heating and the air conditioning system fresh. Grubby coils and heat exchanges make the system work harder, so keeping the filter clean helps extend the life of your heating, ventilating, and air conditioning system.
What is it good for?
A good home air filter cleans the air that you and your family breathe. The mixture and amount of particles in your house’s air will depend on how many people and pets live in the house and what types of activities go on in there. Residents with allergies or asthma should be more concerned about keeping home air filters fresh and clean.
Buying a home air filter.
When buying a home air filter you can choose from several types of material and style.
Performance is affected by the dimension and thickness of the material used, as well as the size and volume of the filtered particles.
Cheap home air filters have a layer of fibers, usually covered by a honeycomb shaped frame. The material is usually fiberglass, but there are filters made of natural materials such as hogs hair and coconut fibers which are also available to buy.
There are many types of home air filters such as pleated filters which are made from a variety of materials, reusable filters which are made of materials that can be rinsed clean with water, and foam made filters which are used for windows.
Maintenance of home air filters.
Home air filters have to be changed regularly. Even a high quality filter can’t do its job right if it’s blocked with a thick deposit of particles which it’s been filtering from the air. Many home air filters are meant to be changed at different intervals, but once a month is a good time frame. New houses, as well as homes where there is redecorating or construction going on, will need more regularly filter changes to compensate for the extra dust and remains in the air inside the house.