Homeowners who take the time to research the top HVAC systems are likely to end up with efficient, long-lasting equipment, keeping a house comfortable in any season. However, there is no guarantee that the quality of the air inside your home will match the standards of heating and cooling equipment. You can change all that by adding an electronic air cleaner, especially one built to eliminate nearly every contaminant in your air system. I have written about how to improve indoor air quality in my blog several times. Here’s a look at what air cleaning systems can do.
Identifying a Real Health Risk
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) considers indoor air pollution one of the top five environmental health risks. The agency considers getting to the source of pollutants the best method of guaranteeing cleaner air in your home. When that process is made difficult by outdoor air conditions, you are forced to rely on electronic air cleaners and other purification devices.
Indoor air pollutants can come in the form of dust, pollen, animal dander, bacteria growing in and around the home, and other types of contaminants. Gaseous pollutants come from cooking, the exhaust from cars and other types of machinery, and paint or chemical substances used in the home.
How an Air Cleaner Handles Pollutants
An electronic air cleaner will be able to trap both gaseous and particle pollutants circulating in your home. If you’re looking for a method to determine the efficiency of a cleaner, you can examine the Clean Air Delivery Rate (CADR), a system endorsed by both the EPA and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
Typical portable air cleaners range from 10 to 150 on the CADR scale, but whole-home purification systems shatter these standards. For example, a whole-home electronic cleaning system can range from 260 to 660, reflecting a high level of cleaning capability. Airborne particles and pollutants start disappearing when you put a system into place with a CADR over 500.
The Trane CleanEffects System
Although there are several products built to clean the air in your Stockbridge home through both mechanical and electronic means, the Trane CleanEffects system is way ahead of the pack. Sporting a CADR of 1,200 and able to attack particles to 0.1 microns, the CleanEffects electronic air cleaner can remove 99.98 percent of pollutants in the air.
Part of the difference in the Trane system is the lack of a conventional filter. Systems that have filters blocking pollutants are bound to clog the airways, limiting the amount of air passing through your home. Trane’s CleanEffects charges incoming air and forces contaminants to stick to cells. Using this system, there is no filter to clog and nothing to stop the flow of clean air.
Minimal Maintenance
With a top notch air cleaner, there isn’t much maintenance involved. You can simply vacuum the parts to remove any buildup. The cells that collect the particles floating through the air stream need cleaning every six to nine months. Service contracts with technicians installing this equipment would remove the need to perform any maintenance whatsoever.
There are millions of particles floating around your home on any given day. If you can reduce their presence with a quality air cleaner, you’ll find yourself and everyone in your family breathing a lot easier. Find out how Reliable Heating & Air can help.