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Breathe Better with Whole-Home Air Filtration

An air filter is an essential HVAC part for efficiency and comfort—but it’s regularly overlooked.

Filtration is one of the best techniques to clean the air that flows through your home. It catches particles as air passes through HVAC ductwork.

There are several kinds of air purification systems you can install to improve the air in your home. Stevenson Service Experts can suggest what’s ideal for you. And you can breathe comfortably knowing all our Expert work is upheld by a 100% Satisfaction Guarantee for a year.*

Take Charge of Your Home's Air Quality

Indoor air quality can impact your family’s health, particularly if there’s someone in your family with allergies, asthma or other respiratory issues. Dust, pollen, pet dander and mold can trigger symptoms, as well as volatile organic compounds. VOCs are chemicals found in everyday household items like cleaning products, furniture and flooring.

Today’s houses are more energy efficient than ever, but they are also more airtight. This means the air inside your home can be more polluted than outside—often two to five times more, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.

There are methods you can use to take charge of your home’s air quality:

  • Lower pollution sources
  • Ventilate with fresh air
  • Try higher-quality air filters

7 Signs You Should Try a Better Air Filtration System

There are a couple of signs that your home could benefit from a filtration system.

  1. Someone in your household has asthma or allergies.
  2. Headaches, congestion or sneezing are common when you’re home.
  3. Your home smells stuffy.
  4. You have pets that shed.
  5. Odors linger in your house.
  6. Someone in your home smokes.
  7. Your house is consistently dusty, despite regular cleaning.
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Which Air Filtration System Is Right for My Home?

A whole-home air purification system can take care of pollution in your home’s air. In fact, it can also provide relief to the asthma and allergy sufferers in your household.

Studies have found managing exposure to indoor allergens and tobacco smoke could stop 65 percent of asthma cases among elementary school-age children. And by controlling biological contaminants like dust mites, childhood asthma cases have also decreased by 55-60 percent.

HEPA Filters

The High Efficiency Particulate Air, or HEPA, filter, was designed to protect scientists from radiation as they worked on the atomic bomb during World War II. Today these filters are regularly used in hospitals and science labs, but you can even find one in a few homes.

HEPA filters are proven to extract 99.97 to 99.99% of particles sized 0.3 microns and bigger. This includes pollen, dirt and dust. A HEPA air cleaner with activated carbon filters can eliminate the particles from chemicals, odors and smoke.

These filters boast a MERV rating of 1721, depending on the brand. This rating shows how successfully a filter can pull out pollutants from the air.

Because of their high-efficiency filtration performance, HEPA filters are thick and can limit airflow. It’s important to check with Stevenson Service Experts to confirm your heating and cooling system can work with one.

Media Filters

Media air cleaners are much thicker than your standard air filters. They’re often four to five times wider—or more. This barrier mounts tightly against your HVAC unit.

Because its filtration surface is usually around 10 inches, media filters are able to catch about 95 percent of particulates.

These filters last longer too, commonly between three to six months.

Electrostatic Filters

There are a couple of electronic filtration systems you can install in your home.

An electrostatic filter relies on magnetically charged components to catch particles. These washable filters are 97 percent effective at extracting microscopic particles from your home’s air. In addition, they’re also 30 times more effective than everyday filters.

An electronic air cleaner uses a high-voltage magnetic charge to trap particles.

Some models can remove the majority of indoor air pollutants—particles, germs, bacteria, chemical odors and vapors—by up to 99.9 percent. It can even decrease ozone, a known lung irritant, created elsewhere in your home.

Air inside your home can be more polluted than the air outside—often two to five times more, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.

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