Monday, July 15, 2013

What? My Air Conditioner Filter Isn’t Keeping The Air in My Home Clean?

A lot of people think that a good or even top-rated air conditioner filter will keep the air in their homes clean and free of dust, mold spores, bacteria and other pollutants. Unfortunately, this is not the case.

While it’s true that the air conditioner is pulling air in from the rest of the home and sending it through a filter, there are three main problems that cause poor indoor air quality. First, no matter how good that air conditioner filter is, it only stops pollutants and allergens coming from the intake side of the duct work and does nothing to stop the mold, bacteria, dust mites, and other pollutants from blowing out of the duct work on the output side of the air conditioner.

All of that duct work that runs from the output of the air conditioner to the vents in your home is almost always loaded with a ton of allergy & asthma causing air pollutants, which blow out into the rooms in your home whenever the unit is running. The second problem is that no matter how good an air conditioner filter is, it isn’t a HEPA filter, which means that the pore size in the A/C filter is too large and allows most of the smaller more dangerous, illness-causing particles, mold spores, bacteria, dust mite particles, viruses to pass through for you and your family to breathe—for 8 hours while you sleep.

Third, an A/C filter does not contain much or enough activated carbon to remove the chemical vapors from cleaning products, solvents, paints, carpets, arsenic residues from the treated wood used to build your house, etc, so those chemical pollutants are also allowed to blow out into the rooms in your home. And, unfortunately, this is much the same situation for offices and buildings. Unless you have a portable HEPA room air cleaner running ‘breathing in’ or filtering the air first, that means you’ll be breathing it in, all day, every day. Knowing that, is it any wonder that colds, flu, allergies and other ailments seem to appear ‘out of nowhere’?

This is why the best portable home & office air purifier systems are recommended and even prescribed by doctors and other health professionals—because they are designed to remove over 99% of all of these particles and chemicals that cause allergies, asthma, and disease. Quality top-rated room air cleaners or purification units come standard with HEPA filters and significant amounts of carbon, zeolite or other super-absorbent material that removes the pollutants commonly found in homes, rooms, and offices, leaving nothing but clean air to breathe. You may have heard the saying “You can either use a filter, or you can be the filter”? This is very true in both water filtration and home or office air filtration.

Some top-rated air cleaner units with HEPA filters include ‘ions’ or an ‘ionic’ dust removal system, but you don’t want an air cleaner that is only ionic, or ionic plus a thin carbon filter, such as Oreck. Despite their advertising, they are not as effective as quality portable air cleaners with HEPA filters, and usually release ozone, a poisonous gas. The one exception to that rule is the Stadler Viktor, which operates with ionic plates and a carbon filter, but its performance is very close to a HEPA filter and does not release ozone.

If you want the best health you can get, one of the very best home or office appliances you can buy is one or more portable HEPA room air purifiers. Almost everyone that buys a quality portable HEPA room air cleaner for their home or office notices in 24-48 hours that they are experiencing fewer allergy & asthma symptoms, less coughing and sneezing, etc. And those that purchase the air purifiers for their homes and rooms often quickly notice that they are sleeping better without those sleep-interrupting pollutants in the air. And studies are showing that over time that those who use quality portable room air scrubbers have fewer chances of developing serious debilitating diseases.

Air Purifiers and Cleaners.com offers a wide selection of portable room air purifiers for almost any size home, room or office, with cheap discount prices and free shipping every day. If you have any questions, give our experts a call toll-free at 1-800-701-2513. We’re standing by to help!

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