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Air Humidification
What is Air Humidification?
The air in your home is a delicate balance of heat, humidity, and moisture. A high level of humidity can make you feel sticky-muggy while low levels leave people feeling uncomfortable due to their dryness or lack thereof! Therefore, it’s important for homeowners not only to know how much water there should be but also when it may become an issue. As the result, a whole-house humidifier and dehumidifier is a must solution to control the health of your loved one in your house.
What is a good indoor humidity level?
An excellent indoor humidity level ranges between 40 and 60%. This mid-range is considered the sweet spot when it comes to indoor humidity.
Is low indoor humidity level hazardous?
Noticeable symptoms and health conditions caused by low humidity levels include Dry Skin,
Itchy Skin & Rashes,
Chapped Lips,
Drier Sinuses (Drier sinuses make you more vulnerable to illness. How? It makes it harder for your nasal passage to ward off virus particles),
Itchy Eyes,
Chronic Bronchitis,
Nose Bleeds,
increased risk of illness.
What about high level humidity?
Compared to wintertime dry air, high humidity is more often a spring and summertime problem. However, high indoor humidity can also be a year-round issue. Therefore, managing your home’s indoor humidity levels and the health and home effects high humidity causes is all the more critical.
What kind of humidifier works the best?
There are three types of humidifiers available now on the market:
- By-pass Humidifier. An evaporation capacity of 0.70 gallons per hour. Tightly constructed homes up to 4,000 square feet in size.
- Power Humidifier. An evaporation capacity of 0.75 gallons per hour. Tightly constructed homes up to 4,200 square feet in size.
- Steam Humidifier. This model can humidify up to 6,200 feet and has a maximum steam capacity range of 11.5 to 34.6 gallons per day.
As you can see, the Steam Humidifier is standing above by-pass and power units with much more coverage.
Air Purification
What is Air Purification?
The purification units will block contaminating particles like dust, pollen, and dander in the air to make sure you and your loved ones are not breathing with it, protecting your health. Air purifiers that draw air through fabric filters are among those that do the best job of removing dust and smoke from the air without producing any ozone.
What is used for air purification?
The HEPA technology is the most advanced and reliable technology used in portable and whole-house air cleaners to remove common airborne allergens. The US Department of Energy has requirements manufacturers must pass to meet HEPA requirements. The HEPA specification requires the removal of at least 99.97% of 0.3 micrometers airborne pollutants.
What are the benefits of air purification?
The most common benefits of air purification units
- Relieves Symptoms of Asthma
- Eliminates Harmful Chemicals from Indoor Environments
- Neutralizes Unpleasant Odors
- Reduces the Chances of Airborne Diseases
- Improves Sleep
- Removes Harmful Radon
- Eliminates Hazardous Asbestos Particles
- Can Increase Life Expectancy.
How long does it take an air purifier to clean a room?
Absolutely. On average, the homeowners in America use hot water only for one hour a day combined. With a tankless heater, you can save up to 59% of your heating bill, compared to a storage-tank unit that heats the water all day long – 24/7.
What is the best air purifier for allergies?
One of the best air purification systems for allergy is HEPA filtration system. Please contact us at 800-185-4494 for a free air quality estimate with one of our best indoor air quality specialists.
Air Ventilation
What is Air Ventilation?
Ventilation replaces stale or unhealthy air in your house with fresh air. The mechanical system or equipment circulates air or replaces thick air with fresh air to maintain a proper oxygen level.
How does air ventilation work?
The operation of the Ventilation system is straightforward. First, the unit will take some portion of the stale air and replace it with fresh air to maintain the proper oxygen inside your house. Then, when the inside air is exhausted outside, it will pass through a heat reclaim box filter where the temperature of inside air is transferred to the fresh air coming in. This way, the energy applied to heat or cool your house is not wasted. Please call us to get the price for the Heat Recovery Units.
Is there a different types of ventilation?
There are four whole-house ventilation systems:
Exhaust: Taking the stale air outside with no replacement
Supply: Bringing the outside fresh air to inside your house
Balanced: The mix of exhaust and supply types
Heat-recovery. When exhaust air is exchanging the temperature with outside fresh air coming in. The right ventilation system for a particular house depends upon the climate and the needs of the structure.
Which type of ventilation is most effective?
Heat Recovery Units can generally provide a high ventilation rate more economically due to heat and temperature exchange inside the unit. Heat Recovery units have different capacities and can handle the entire house providing enough outside fresh air and oxygen to your home.
Air Filtration
Is whole house air filtration worth it?
A whole-house air purifier is undoubtedly worth the money for those with allergies, asthma, and other respiratory conditions. The system helps reduce symptoms by removing antagonistic air pollutants. For those living in urban areas with moderate to severe traffic, whole-home air purification is well worth the money.
How much does a whole house air purifier cost?
When you open a faucet, the flow of the water triggers the heater to fire up. The water is heated instantly inside the heat exchanger. The time it takes to obtain hot water is directly related to how far is the tankless unit from the point of use. The tankless state-of-the-art burners deliver a lot of BTUs to heat the cold water instantly.
What is MERV and how it works?
The MERV stands for Minimum Efficiency Reporting Values. It reports a filter’s ability to capture larger particles between 0.3 and 10 microns. The higher the MERV rating, the better the filter is at trapping specific types of particles.
What MERV level should I use?
As a general rule, residences do not use the filters with MERV 8. However, we recommend that everyone uses filters with at least an 8 MERV rating. These filters will remove the majority of pollutants from your indoor air.
