Improving HVAC air quality and our health all at the same time

Improving HVAC air quality and our health all at the same time

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I just love it when things work out and there are multiple benefits.

It’s even more amazing when one of those benefits was totally unexpected. This is the case when I chose to really do something about the air quality in our home with and HVAC upgrade. The pandemic caused my family, as was the case with many, many families, to spend a lot of time inside the home. My wife and I both had to work remotely from the comfort of the HVAC in our small home office. We live in an area where we have cold winters and hot summers. There really isn’t much in between and the HVAC is on heating or cooling much of the year. So our home is sealed up tight. We just don’t get much fresh air. When I started reading about how important good indoor air quality was to our immune response, it seemed like the right time to address that issue. It didn’t really take all that much. In fact, I did one of the HVAC upgrades myself and the HVAC professionals handled the other. It started with my replacing the HVAC air filters with HEPA type air filters. They are designed with our health in mind and not just the health of the HVAC. They remove over 99 percent of the airborne contaminants that attack our respiratory system. But, I wanted to go a step further and that’s where the HVAC professionals came in. They installed a whole house air purifier inside the HVAC. This thing actively eliminates even the tiniest particles in the air with UV light. The unexpected part was that not only is the air so clean and fresh, the house smells amazing.

 

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