Five Reasons to Add an Air Purifier to Your Home

Air circulation within the home should be a significant part of family health — it’s the air your family breathes, every day. An air purifier can become a valuable asset as you work to keep your loved ones healthy, especially in consideration to COVID-19. Since indoor air quality can be worse than outdoor air quality, a professional-level air purification system, such as an Air Doctor, can remove a surprising amount of pollutants, bacteria, and viruses from your home’s air. 

Air Purifiers Do What Air Filters Can’t

An air filter is what you should be regularly changing in your furnace and/or air conditioner. It’s the most basic way of cleaning the air that circulates through your home. The simplest filters are adequate for capturing dust, dander, and lightweight pet hair, but that’s about it. They’re really more for the protection of the HVAC equipment rather than truly cleaning the air.

A high-end air purifying professional system is going to be fully sealed, so no air can escape it. Then, the air that is pulled through the best quality purifiers will be forced through a HEPA (High Efficiency Particulate Absorbing) filter. These will capture 99.99% percent of contaminants down to a third of a micron. For comparison, a micron is beyond the limit of visibility, smaller than a particle of smoke and even tinier than bacteria.

As a recent addition to the market, there’s now a new UltraHEPA filter, which is more than a hundred times more effective than a standard HEPA filter. UltraHEPA filters have enhanced the performance of air purifiers and were developed for the highest performing equipment, like the Air Doctor, which is capable of purifying air for a space up to 2,400 square feet per hour.

Air Purifiers Provide Allergy Relief

The pollen and dander commonly associated with allergies are responsible for causing a multitude of irritating problems. All those annoying things like sneezing, itchiness, watery eyes, nasal congestion, coughing, runny nose, stomach aches, rashes, and fatigue can be caused by airborne allergens that are floating around in your home.

By removing the pollen and dander from your indoor air, every time you walk through your door, you’ll be getting a break from the allergens outside that are making your life miserable. An air purification system is also capable of capturing dust mites, mold spores, and other pollutants that can affect your health.

Air Purifiers Help With Smoke Removal

A particle of smoke is approximately the size of a blood cell. Whether from a cigarette, cigar, pipe, incense, or cooking, the smell of smoke has a powerful ability to linger in the air. Another common source of smoke in the house is when residents use a fireplace or wood-burning stove in the house. The air purifier can filter out the chemicals, along with the smoke, giving you healthier air to breathe. Not only will your house smell better, but your lungs won’t have to deal with lingering irritants caused by smoke.

Air Purifiers Help Reduce Bacteria and Viruses

HEPA and UltraHEPA filters can capture nearly all airborne bacteria and many viruses. With seasonal flus that seem to target every member of the family, a purifier can help stop an illness before it spreads.

Of course, that brings us to ask if an air purifier can capture the COVID-19 virus. The virus is within the ultra-fine filtration range of these filters, so they are capable of capturing it, but only if it’s airborne. As scientists are still discovering how the COVID-19 virus spreads, it’s not guaranteed that an air purifier can wholly eliminate the risk of COVID-19 exposure. With the risk of COVID-19 sticking to surfaces and being spread through touch, an air purifier is only one approach to helping make a household safer against the virus.

By installing an air purifier, you can help make your home as bacteria- and virus-free as possible. Purifying the air against any harmful microorganisms means less trips to the doctor, less time spent recovering in bed, and more time enjoying time at home.

Air Purifiers Help Keep Your Home Chemical-Free

So many common household products introduce toxic chemicals into household air. Cleaners, plastics, and building materials are all capable of releasing harmful fumes into your living space. These common household airborne compounds, which can include formaldehyde, are capable of causing many long-term health problems. The “new house smell” is actually a harmful combination of the fumes being released by new paint, carpet and other flooring, cabinets, countertops, and all the related adhesives and solvents.

A highly rated professional air purification system can efficiently remove these by-products from the air your family is breathing. The best purifiers, like the popular Air Doctor systems, have a specially added second filter positioned in line with their UltraHEPA filter. Their carbon/gas trap/VOC filter removes toxic fumes and harmful vapors, including ozone.

There are many reasons for buying a well-designed, highly efficient air purification system, and frankly, you can only do good when adding an air purifier to your home. When considering that they improve the quality of the air you and your loved ones are breathing all day, every day, even the higher-end air purifiers like the Air Doctor become an extremely reasonable and practical health investment.