| u are trying to be economic, you are best | | | | and is kept unclean. |
| advised to not try to maintain a central HVAC | | | | Another serious problem with HEPA is their habit |
| equipment and a whole house air purifier | | | | of creating heavy static backpressure. Thus, they |
| simultaneously. Unless you have money to waste, | | | | cannot be fixed directly into the regular residential |
| you had better use those hard earned bucks to | | | | system. To solve this problem therefore, vendors |
| get other equipments for improving the quality of | | | | include an expensive bypass vent circuit and much |
| the air in your house. | | | | stronger secondary purifiers. Most partial bypass |
| A HVAC (or rather a Heating Ventilating, Air | | | | systems are incapable of performing their |
| Conditioning) system shares your home’s | | | | required functions to the extent necessary. |
| central blower and ductwork. So unless you keep | | | | Therefore dirty air easily flows through the main |
| it squeaky clean and dust free it will sprout these | | | | duct. |
| irritable elements into the very air you breathe. | | | | Before buying and fixing a whole house air purifier |
| And, this won’t change even if you add a | | | | make sure the air ducts in your system is |
| swanky, pricey upstream filter system. | | | | cleansed out rigorously. |
| Most HVAC air purifiers are fixed before motors | | | | Given that we are not required to see or hear it |
| and fans in order to save them (the latter that is) | | | | regularly, we tend to bypass all thoughts of our |
| from large granular stuff. There function | | | | air conditioning systems completely from our |
| therefore is not as an air cleanser. In fact they | | | | minds. Let’s be objective, obviously a |
| are not even equipped to purify your air; they | | | | whole house air cleaner is preferable to a portable |
| have a meager 1000 cu. Foot/minute airflow, | | | | air cleaner. Consider, suppose your portable air |
| which is not a good enough speed to really | | | | cleaner suddenly starts malfunctioning then you |
| cleanse your air. The air flow at each of its duct is | | | | take it to your vendor asap. This doesn’t |
| only as high powered as a tiny fan! | | | | come in the way of your house’s heating |
| The air from your whole house system does not | | | | or cooling which continues despite the air being |
| blow quite the same everywhere. It chooses to | | | | unclean. On the other hand a minor glitch which |
| flow through areas where it receives the least | | | | you probably look beyond in case of a whole |
| obstruction. Cool air has an affinity towards the | | | | house system becomes a reason for you to run |
| lower part of the room, and therefore completely | | | | to your vendor in case of a portable system. |
| avoids the upper parts, especially the little corners. | | | | If you want to improve the quality of the air in |
| Wherever there is a little niche or cubbyhole it | | | | your house reasonably try and get rid of all toxic |
| deposits dust and dirt. So entire house might be | | | | sources. Make sure your ventilation is channelized |
| getting a number of air changes per hour, | | | | plausibly and circulation is truly possible. Regularly |
| ultimately the lower part receives dirty air. | | | | clean your HVAC system, and don’t leave |
| Imagine a flowing river with plunging bank cuts | | | | out any pan duct or coil. Keep replacing your |
| and tiny rapids. Consider what its speed will be if it | | | | furnace filters with the latest ones. Also, try and |
| is followed by lazy flats complete with sandbars. | | | | use premium chemical-capable portable room |
| This is what your HVAC is like, full with rapid | | | | air-purifiers in your bedrooms. |
| airflow and all, but ultimately not a very efficient | | | | If you still have money to spare spend it on |
| air cleanser. | | | | getting a central vacuum system for your entire |
| As a part of whole house purification system an | | | | house. This will spit out all the dirty air in your |
| HVAC blower has to function all the time. Most | | | | house right outside. Else get yourself a quality |
| HVAC’s used at homes are not built to be | | | | sealed HEPA filter vacuum cleaner. |
| strong enough to pull in the air through the well | | | | With additional money where available, consider |
| shut HEPA filter. Thus it must be ensured that | | | | installing a central vacuum system for the whole |
| they aren’t over run and in the process | | | | house, which exhausts 100% of all dirty air |
| heated overtly. This is, however, unavoidable | | | | outside. Or choose a quality sealed HEPA filter |
| incase if your furnace filter is built of fiberglass | | | | vacuum cleaner. |