Air Purifiers Superstore
Air purifiers are supposed to improve indoor air quality. However, the reality is that most air purifiers just suck and blow air and are frankly a waste of money! Why? When people and pets move around in a room, they're CONSTANTLY kicking-up dust! NO AIR PURIFIER can keep-up with constantly kicked-up dust! Yeah, the numbers seem impressive. 99.97% dust removal rating, five air changes per hour every 1000 sq. ft, etc. However, the 99.97% dust removal rate is for particles over .3 microns! The problem is that 80% of dust particles are SMALLER than .3 microns in size, things such as viruses, molds, dust mite droppings, and bacteria. (Things that make you sick) Dust particles stay suspended in the air for long periods of time since air purifiers can't create the air movement necessary to move dust from point A to point B. So what then is the solution?
The owners of the Air Purifier's Superstore have been in the air purifier business for over 7 years. We know what works and what doesn't work and we're not here to try and sell you a soup sandwich or a $1500 air purifier that will burn through $500 a year in replacement filters. We're also not going to try and sell you a "hyped" air purifier or ionizer that will collect about as much dust as your TV screen! We know what works and learning these truths will help you "free yourself" from wasting money.
Here are some things we know are a waste of money. 1) We know that all desktop air purifiers are a waste of money. 2) We know that plastic air purifiers offgas VOC's and are a waste of money. 3) We know that the air that exists most air purifiers will basically continue to be re-filtered again and again while the stinky, dusty air just a few feet away will continue to linger until it is collected by human air purifiers, i.e., your lungs. 4) We know that ionizer's will only force particles from the air within 2-3 feet of the ionizer and are thus a waste of money. Here is a simple trick to see if what you just read about air purifiers is true or false. Get a good flashlight. After you and yours have walked around the room for a few minutes, sat on the couch, etc, turn off all the lights. Now go stand say, um, one foot from your handy dandy air sucking and blowing machine. Point the flashlight at your hand from about 6 inches away. Tell me, what will you see? Tons of dust, right? What you're looking at is mostly dead skin and maybe some dust mite droppings. (Dead skin is their favorite food) You see, each adult sheds about 1-3 lbs of dead skin each year. If you have 5 people in your household and a pet or two, picture a mountain of dust in your living room! (dust doesn't weigh much) Now take a look at your air purifier again. Do you REALLY think it's going to collect that much dust?
Now on to what does work to improve your indoor air quality:
INSTALL A QUALITY FURNACE FILTER. If you have an HVAC system (forced air), the most important thing you can do to improve your indoor air quality is to buy a high quality furnace filter and run your HVAC system 24/7! I know what you're thinking, that will cost a fortune in electricity. Right? But as Borat says ......NOT! It will only cost around $10 a month in electricity (for avg sized home - 1800 sq. ft) to run your HVAC fan 24/7. Most newer HVAC fans use around 120 Watts, the same amount of electricity as a light bulb. The reason you want to do this is that your HVAC fan can move 2000-3000 cubic feet a minute of air, enough to change the air in your home several times per hour! Leave all the doors open and open all the air vents to create a strong air current that will keep the dead skin floating towards the furnace filter which in turn will become caked with 1/4" of dead skin, dust mites, and dust mite droppings every month. We sell MERV 11 filters for about $5 a piece and a high quality washable furnace filter with a lifetime warranty for $49 delivered. We also sell carbon furnace filters for VOC, smoke, and odor control. If you don't have a forced air system, then we recommend: 1) You move to a home with a forced air system (just kidding), 2) Air your house out often to ensure good ventilation, or 3) Buy an Airpura air purifier which can move the air 2 times an hour in a 2000 sq. ft room. (If you have to buy a "stand alone" air purifier, this is the best value). If you have an HVAC system, we also recommend you install an induct UV air sanitizing system. We sell these for $279.This UV whole home air sanitizer will kill any viruses, bacteria, or mold that happens to pass by.
Our last suggestion for improving your indoor air quality (even if you own a $1000 air purifier) is to do what hospitals do and sanitize your living area with ozone shock treatments while you're not home. Most hospitals use a "shock treatment" ozone generator to sterilize the operating room before and after an operation to make sure the air and all surfaces are bacteria and virus free. This will also kill dust mites and neutralize their droppings as well as remove VOC's and all types of pollutants from the air. We think that's a good idea and for years we've been running an ozone generator in our home and having them cut-off 1-2 hours before we come back home (we don't have pets or we wouldn't do this by the way) so that we always come home to fresh, clean, mountain fresh air void of any bacteria, air pollution (from cars, etc), or viruses. It works like a charm! If you live in a humid area, this will have a huge impact on your indoor air quality (and the number of folks in your household with allergies and respiratory problems). Ozone isn't something you want to be breathing in high concentrations, it's something you want to use to sterilize the air of anything harmful while you're not home. (unless someone is smoking, I'd rather breath ozone than second hand smoke!) A side bonus of doing this is that your indoor air will become oxygen rich (ozone is three oxygen atoms and it will revert back to oxygen (2 oxygen atoms) after about 40 minutes. It will also deal with any VOC issues from off-gasing carpets, wood products, etc. We sell 3600 and 7200 milligram per hour ozone generators with timers and 5 year warranties for
$329-$449. Both have special features that make them
the best ozone generators available anywhere at any
price, yet they are priced about 50% below the
competition. Definitely worthy of your consideration and
research if this is the first you've heard about ozone
being useful to improve indoor air quality. (We
DON'T recommend ozone air purifiers however, they're
quite worthless and harmful to boot). Also worthy of
your consideration is our $135 500mgph digital water
ozonator that is probably the number one health promoting product we sell.
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