While the time period we often refer to as “The Pandemic” may be over, COVID-19 is still a real threat. At the time of writing this in February of 2023, there were an average of 38,000 hospitalizations and 4,700 ICU patients over a 7-day period.
COVID-19 is still with us and perhaps you’ve wondered if there’s a way you can remove COVID-19 particles from the air in your home to protect yourself and your family. Does an air scrubber kill COVID, or is there no way to do it?
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Can Air Scrubbers Kill COVID-19 in Your Home?
Monday, February 13th, 2023What Is an Air Scrubber and Why Do I Need One?
Monday, October 24th, 2022How often do you think about the air quality in your home? Indoor air quality has its own set of issues that often makes it more dangerous than breathing outside air. You need an in-home defense against airborne pollutants.
Fortunately, it’s possible to drastically improve your air quality with a simple addition to your home. An air scrubber in Uniontown, OH is exactly what you need. Let’s talk about the benefits of air scrubbers in your home.
Air Scrubbers Can Use UV Light to Kill Germs
UV light destroys germs. Currently, your HVAC system pulls air through a filter and traps large particles such as pet dander, dust, and debris. Some of those particles still pass through your air filter and recirculate into your home.
This isn’t an argument against air filters, but instead, a stark observation between filtration and scrubbing. Filters and scrubbers work in tandem to provide better air quality throughout your home.
Air scrubbers can use UV light to kill germs that make it through your air filter, like a second line of defense. UV light works with titanium rods embedded inside of your air scrubber to kill germs and clean the air that runs through your HVAC system. Standalone air scrubbers have their own air filtration system and will require their own filters.
Whole House Systems or Portable Air Scrubbers
You can use portable air scrubbers in any room inside of your home if you wish. They operate differently from whole house systems and come with their own unique set of drawbacks.
Whole house systems can work with your HVAC system to filter air as it’s pulled in. This helps decontaminate air at the source of where it’s distributed throughout your home.
While portable air scrubbers are convenient, they require their own filtration system separate from your HVAC unit air filter. Portable units are also fairly loud compared to whole house systems.
How to Know If You Need an Air Scrubber
You can purchase and operate inexpensive air quality monitors. These can tell you the following information about your air quality:
- Particulate matter levels
- Air quality index
- Volatile organic compounds
This information gauges the overall quality of your indoor air, which can definitively determine whether or not you need an air scrubber. But that’s not the only way to tell if you need an air scrubber.
If you feel as though you constantly get sick or encounter breathing problems, those could be signs of “sick building” syndrome. Improving your air quality is the first step to creating a healthier living space for you and your family.
Clean Your Indoor Air Like Never Before
Air scrubbers improve your home air quality and reduce your chance of developing sick building syndrome. If you feel that the air quality in your home is lacking, it’s time for an upgrade. Talk to an HVAC technician today to learn the extended benefits of air scrubbers and how they could be drastically improving your quality of life.
Contact us today to install a new air scrubber in your home today and breathe cleaner air.
Improve Your Home’s Indoor Air Quality Like This!
Monday, July 26th, 2021Sorry to break it to you, but your home likely has poor indoor air quality. We don’t know this for 100% certain, but poor IAQ is a major problem across the country in homes and commercial buildings. Because the design of modern homes emphasizes energy efficiency, they often have such “tight” construction that they don’t allow for fresh air circulation. Airborne pollutants from inside sources—and there are many—will start to build up indoors without any way to escape.
You don’t have to just live with bad IAQ. You can help improve the quality of the air you and your family breathe with both simple steps and help from our IAQ professionals. Let’s get into what you can do for healthier indoor air.
Big News: The Air Scrubber Can Scrub Out Coronavirus!
Thursday, October 8th, 2020We have a major announcement for homeowners who are concerned about having the healthiest conditions possible in their house. The Air Scrubber with Aerus’s ActivePure Technology is now the only air purifier scientifically proven to eliminate 99.98% the SAR-CoV-2 novel coronavirus on surfaces. This is an air purifier that we install, and we know many of our customers will be interested in having one integrated into their HVAC systems.
In a series of tests completed by an independent FDA-compliant lab, the Air Scrubber demonstrated that it has a 99.98% surface-kill rate within seven hours on the novel coronavirus. The Air Scrubber is also a defense against many other harmful viruses and bacteria, all without using ozone or chemicals:
- Swine Flu (H1N1)
- Avian Bird Flu (H5N8)
- Hepatitis A (HAV)
- MS2 bacteriophage
ActivePure Technology is the most powerful air and surface purification system available to homes—and it’s the only one of its class recognized by the Space Foundation and Certified Space Technology.
Crown Group Ohio: Comfort Experts Since 1963. Call us today to learn more about our indoor air quality options.