Improve Your Home's Air Quality
Humidification
Today we spend most of our time indoors. Problems with extreme dryness exist in most homes in Canada if they are not equipped with humidifiers.
Other problems that can be caused by incorrect humidity levels include:
- Mould thrives in high humidity environments
- Dust mites also thrive in humidity levels of above 50%
- Dry your mucous membranes, leading to nosebleeds and infections
- Low humidity can aggravate the symptoms of asthma
A whole-home humidifier can add the necessary moisture to indoor air passing through the filtering element and maintain level humidity within your home. Your family will benefit from a healthy home air environment and since you feel more comfortable at lower temperatures, you can turn down your thermostat for energy savings.
MetroAir carries a wide range of humidifiers for your home, including the complete Honeywell line of humidifiers. Contact us today to find out how to improve your indoor environment during those dry winter months.
Ventilation
Today's better insulated homes are built to maximize energy savings. The down side to this efficiency is that your home can potentially trap moisture and pollutants, leading to structural damage and serious indoor air quality (IAQ) problems.
For older homes, if you've upgraded your windows or insulation to improve the energy efficiency, again the same issue arises. Your home has become more airtight to keep the heat in but stale air and chemical pollutants are trapped inside as well for you to breathe and re-breathe.
The solution is to use Heat & Energy Recovery Ventilators (HRV's and ERV's). They bring in fresh air from outside to dilute pollutants and replace the stale air inside your home. Additionally, in the winter they warm the air through a unique energy saving heat transfer process. In fact, this heat transfer process makes this unit eligible for a $750 ecoENERGY rebate.
Filtration
It is important to keep your home’s environment hypo-allergenic. To accomplish this, MetroAir recommends installing one of many possible air quality improvement components. Electronic and media-based cleaning systems, as well as ultraviolet mould irradiators can reduce the presence of dust, viruses, smoke, cooking grease, and other unwanted particles in your home.
As well as removing these unwanted particles from your airways, they are also removed from the airways of your home: the ventilation ducts. Clean ducts can allow your HVAC system to operate more efficiently, lowering your utility bills.
How an electronic air cleaner works:
- The air in your home (prior to filtration) is full of contaminants
- The largest particles are removed easily by the aluminum mesh pre-filter
- Small particles that manage to pass through the pre-filter receive an electrical charge when they reach the ionizing section
- In similar fashion a magnet, the "charged" particles are attracted to a row of grounded plates
- The clean are is channelled to your HVAC system then re-vented into your home
