Your HVAC system is equipped with an air filter that captures dirt, dust, and other foreign objects. But it isn’t enough to clean your indoor air. Thankfully, you can always improve your indoor air quality by choosing a filter with greater efficiency.
Marsh Heating and Air Conditioning is your reliable HVAC company in Coon Rapids MN. We offer a range of efficient air filters that help clean the air that circulates throughout your home.
Indoor Air Quality and Your Health
Poor indoor air quality can pose great dangers to your health. Children, people aged 60 or more, and anyone with existing allergies or immune system problems are most susceptible to its harmful effects.
Exposure to indoor air pollutants has both short-term and long-term effects. Some impacts may be experienced immediately after a single or repeated exposure to one or more pollutants. Poor indoor air quality may result in irritation of the skin, eyes, nose, and throat, fatigue, headaches, dizziness, coughing, upper respiratory congestion. If neglected, overexposure to poor indoor air quality can lead to more serious health concerns such as lung disease.
Understanding MERV
Minimum Effective Reporting Value, otherwise known as MERV, is a measurement showing the effectiveness of air filters. It was developed in 1987, and the scale goes from 1-16. The higher the number, the smaller the holes, allowing fewer particles to pass through. A MERV 16 filter can capture up to 95-99 percent of airborne particles. It is an efficient way to remove smoke and other pollutants, making it a hospital-grade option. Of course, it’s perfect for your home, too!
Benefits of Clean Indoor Air
Asthma and Allergies
If you have allergies or are suffering from asthma, household contaminants can aggravate your situation. Air purifications systems are especially important because they successfully and quietly eliminate allergens and other particles. They also remove odors, pollen, smoke, dirt, dust, pet dander, and most pollutants present in the air. Using air purifiers with MERV 16 filters is an effective way to fight off indoor air pollution. As a result, it lowers your chances of developing asthma or triggering asthma attacks.
Lung Disease
Cigarette and tobacco smoking can result in the development of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease as well as heart disease, ear infections, pneumonia, and bronchitis.
Contrary to popular belief, secondhand smoke is actually as dangerous as smoking itself. It is especially harmful to children, whose lungs are still developing and their respiratory rates are higher than grown-ups.
A MERV 16 air filter removes particles at 0.3-1.0 microns (cigarette smoke can be anywhere from 4-.01 microns), which means that most of the smoke can be trapped by the air filter. Using it will help you and your family members trap cigarette smoke and protect yourselves from cancer caused by smoking.
Stress
According to some studies, those who breathe clean air are less stressed than those who inhale the polluted air. When you breathe clean, purified air, your cortisol levels decrease, which minimizes stress and enables you to become less tense. As a result, your productivity is increased, which further lowers your stress levels.
Features of the Healthy Climate Carbon Clean 16 Media Air Cleaner
Media air cleaners provide you with efficient, premier indoor air quality. They purify your air and keep allergens away so that you can breathe fresh, clean air, which is circulated by your HVAC system.
In contrast to electrostatic air cleaners that can elevate indoor ozone levels, the Carbon Cleaner 16 provides thorough, unmatched filtration throughout your home while reducing ozone, a known lung irritant. Like plants and trees absorb carbon dioxide and release oxygen back into the atmosphere, the Carbon Clean 16 air filter eliminates harmful ozone from indoor air and converts it into clean, healthy oxygen. As part of this natural and efficient purification process, carbon inside the filter that is traded with oxygen reacts with odors and airborne pollutants to neutralize them before circulating back into your indoor air.
- Whole-home filtration with no additional power source
- Industry-exclusive, MERV 16 Precision Pleat media filter – the highest MERV rating possible
- Hospital inpatient care/general surgery level filtration
- Removes over 95% of particles ranging in size down to 0.3 micron
- Removes over 90 percent of bioaerosols like bacteria, viruses, and microorganisms down to .01 micron
- Effective filtration to protect your HVAC system
- Converts harmful ground-level ozone into oxygen
Ask the Marsh Heating and Air Conditioning
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