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Should We Really Be Concerned with Indoor Air Quality?

All of us face a variety of risks to our health as we go about our day-to-day lives. Driving in cars, flying in planes, engaging in recreational activities, and being exposed to environmental pollutants all pose varying degrees of risk. Some risks are simply unavoidable. Some we choose to accept because to do otherwise would restrict our ability to lead our lives the way we want. And some are risks we might decide to avoid if we had the opportunity to make informed choices. Indoor air pollution is one risk that you can do something about.

Click here to read a very informative web page hosted by the EPA.

Click here to read an article from Wikipedia.

In an effort to save energy, homebuilders have made construction tighter, which means there is less air leakage from outside.  We have learned this is a double edged sword.  The idea is to prevent the temperature inside from escaping to the outside.  In achieving that goal we have found the concentration of pollutants inside has increased.  examples: dust, tobacco smoke, cooling smoke, animal dander, mold, and viruses.

Here is a chart that describes what a high efficiency air filter removes from the air.

Here are the various filter types and how good they are on this chart  
This graph explains the size of particles in the air.
 

As you can see, there are many pollutants we can't even see that need to be filtered from the air we breathe

   
 
 

 

Benefits of a High Efficiency Filtration System:

Lead into Clean Effects right here.........

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