| As an Air Quality/Duct Cleaning specialist I am | | | | to toss out disposable filters every month into |
| often consulted upon for my educational | | | | the landfill (The environment will love you for it) |
| experience regarding indoor air quality issues. With | | | | -Easy to maintain: Instead of replacing your |
| the advancements being made in air filtration I am | | | | standard throw away filter, an electrostatic filter |
| often asked for my opinion on various filtration | | | | simply needs to be cleaned periodically to achieve |
| options one of which are electrostatic furnace | | | | best filtration results and optimum furnace |
| filters. As a duct cleaning technician myself, I am a | | | | efficiency. |
| strong advocate of electrostatic air filters. | | | | Keeping your Air and Your HVAC system clean: |
| I have written a brief summary of the benefits | | | | Having your duct system professionally cleaned is |
| of owning such a filter | | | | a vital part of dramatically improving the indoor air |
| -Savings: Electrostatic air filters will help keep | | | | in your home. The addition of a high performance |
| heating components and A/C coils from being | | | | air filter will provide many benefits and intervals |
| coated with dust particles. Dirt is the #1 cause of | | | | for duct cleaning. Electrostatic high performance |
| heating & cooling system failures, and a | | | | efficiency furnace filters removes dust, pollen, |
| cleaner system also operates more efficiently | | | | mold spores and animal dander as the air |
| which saves you money on both energy | | | | circulates through your central system. Clean, |
| consumption and equipment repairs. Additionally, | | | | filtered air benefits the entire family. Children and |
| Electrostatic filters are permanent which save you | | | | the elderly are most effected by indoor air |
| money on disposable filters. | | | | pollution and will benefit greatly from the clean air |
| -Allergy Relief: Asthma, allergy and respiratory | | | | that exits from this filter. |
| symptoms can be significantly reduced when | | | | How does it work? |
| exposure to dust, pollen, mold spores and animal | | | | Electrostatic filters work on the principal of "static |
| dander is controlled by the electrostatic properties | | | | electricity" not "electricity". The filter media has a |
| of these filters. | | | | Negative charge throughout the entire surface |
| -Housekeeping: Household dust will be collected on | | | | which is enhanced by air passing through, Tiny |
| the electrostatic media of the filter when the | | | | particles such as dust, pollen and mold have a |
| furnace or A/C system is operating. Less | | | | Positive charge and are therefore attracted to |
| frequent dusting will be a welcome benefit to | | | | the filter like a magnet . These particulates are |
| housekeeping. | | | | the culprits of our indoor environmental air |
| -Environmentally friendly: Electrostatic filters are a | | | | pollution. |
| permanent lifetime filter, you will no longer have | | | | |