Indoor air quality plays a major role in your health and the overall comfort of your home. Poor air quality can lead to an increase in allergy symptoms, respiratory issues, and other health problems. It’s why we recommend investing in air cleaner installation in Oregon City, OR.
It’s an investment that will help you, your family, and even your pets breathe easier and feel more comfortable at home all year long. Keep reading to learn more about improving your indoor air quality with a whole-house air purifier.
Why Indoor Air Quality Matters for Your Health
Even if you can’t see them, the air is full of microscopic particles. Some of them are perfectly safe to breathe in, while others are potentially harmful. Dust can carry allergens, bacteria, and even chemicals and odors. As these dust particles circulate through the air, they carry all of these harmful things with them.
Each time you take a breath, you are bombarded with things that irritate your allergies or potentially make you sick. When you invest in a whole-house air purifier, you largely eliminate these particles from the air. While you cannot prevent these harmful particles from entering your home on your body and clothes, you can prevent them from hanging around for too long. A whole-house air purifier works around the clock to clean your air and maintain a high level of indoor air quality.
How Air Purifiers Operate
An air purifier uses one of two methods to clean the air. It either has a high quality HEPA filter or a UV light. In some cases, whole-house air purifiers used both. First a filter eliminates larger particles from the air and then a UV light neutralizes the remaining particles.
Smaller portable air purifiers that you plug into the wall work in much the same way. The biggest difference is that a whole-house model gets installed inside of your HVAC system and out of the way. You don’t have to worry about unplugging it and moving it around or forgetting to plug it in and turn it on.
Plus, smaller air purifiers are really only rated to clean smaller spaces like a single room, an office, or apartment. A whole-house model works around the clock without needing any adjustments or manual work from you. Our team just needs to check your air purifier once each year during regular AC maintenance and change out either the air filter or the UV light.
Other Ways to Boost Indoor Air Quality
If you’re not quite ready to make the investment in a whole-house air purifier, there are other ways that you can boost indoor air quality. Open your doors and windows to allow stale air out whenever you can. We know this is a little more difficult in the winter season when it’s cold outside and you’re trying to keep heat in. However, even just opening windows and doors for 10 to 15 minutes can make a huge difference.
You can also make sure that you are changing out the air filter on your HVAC system on time to prevent it from overfilling and allowing dust particles through and into your clean air. Vacuuming and wiping down surfaces also helps to eliminate the amount of dust to begin with.
Our last recommendation is investing in duct cleaning services every three to five years. We can eliminate dust buildup that settles in your ducts and also make sure that all of the joints are properly sealed to prevent dust from getting in that way.
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