Air Purifiers Superstore
Air purifiers in theory are supposed to improve your indoor air quality and make it "breathable". However, the reality is that most air purifiers do nothing more than suck and blow ...at best. Why? Simple. When you and others walk and move around in a room dust is CONSTANTLY being kick up and NO AIR PURIFIER on the market can keep-up with this barrage of constantly being kicked-up dust. Yeah, the numbers seem impressive. 99.97% dust removal rating, five air changes per hour every 1000 sq. ft, etc. However, those stats are in sealed rooms with nobody moving about!
Folks, we've been in the air purifier business for over 7 years, and we're here to tell you, if your home is cluttered with desktop air purifiers, YOU'VE BEEN HAD! When you put a desktop air purifier in a room, the air that exits the machine will basically continue to be re-filtered again and again near the machine 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. Don't worry, unless you have mold, bacteria, VOC's, asbestos or some other harmful junk in your air it won't kill you, that is of course unless you are elderly, an infant, sick, or have a compromised immune system.
Okay, you just bought a table top air purifier or a "hyped" brand and are starting to curse at the screen. Before you leave, try this simple trick to see if what has just been written about air purifiers isn't true. 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? But wait, it gets worse! About 80% of airborne contaminants are so small you can't even see them! I'm talking about things like viruses, bacteria, mold spores, VOC's, ... you get the picture. What you see mostly floating around in the air is dead skin and maybe some dust mite droppings. (Dead skin is their favorite food) You see, each adult sheds about 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 doing anything to clean your air or is it just wasting money and electricity?
Now that you know the truth and have been set free from wasting any more money, here ere some real effective solutions you should do to archive great indoor air quality:
INSTALL A QUALITY FURNACE FILTER. If you have an HVAC system (forced air), 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 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 filters 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. 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 'nuke" anything harmful in the air when you're not in the room. (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 from $349. 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).
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