How to Improve Your Home's Air Quality

Helpful tips to improve indoor air quality (IAQ) in your home

The majority of our days are spent indoors, thanks to school, work and home. But according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), household air can contain anywhere from two to five times the amount of pollutants of outdoor air*. When a home has poor air quality, the chances of respiratory issues, allergies, asthma, headaches and other illnesses increases. 

Ensuring your indoor air is clean is the first step toward boosting the health of your home. And the first step to improved IAQ starts with your HVAC system.

Wellness
When your home's IAQ improves, airborne irritants and bacterial or viral growth are mitigated
Energy Savings
Improved IAQ reduces the need for constant temperature adjustment, which helps boost energy savings throughout the year
Reliable Comfort
Improved humidity control and fewer airborne irritants can help make your home more comfortable

Control Humidity Levels

The amount of humidity in your home directly affects your comfort level. Higher humidity causes your home to feel too hot, and lower humidity levels can cause it to feel too cool. Humidity imbalance also acts as a breeding ground for irritants like mold, bacteria and viruses. Our humidifiers and dehumidifiers integrate with your HVAC system for quiet and effective adjustment of humidity levels. With optimal humidity levels, your air becomes more healthy, your comfort more consistent, and your energy costs reduced. 

Balance Indoor Air with Outdoor Air

While a well-sealed home can maintain desired temperatures more consistently, an air-tight seal can also result in irritant and pollutant buildup. By allowing fresh air in your home, you can improve indoor air quality. The best way to introduce fresh air, regardless of outdoor conditions, is through the use of a ventilator. A ventilator allows for fresh air year-round while also removing stale air from the home. Ventilators can also boost HVAC system efficiency thanks to the recovery of warm or cool exhaust air for heating and cooling. 

Your home's air may contain two to five times the level of airborne irritants of outdoor air. Improve IAQ with these system add-ons.

Control Humidity Levels

The amount of humidity in your home directly affects your comfort level. Higher humidity causes your home to feel too hot, and lower humidity levels can cause it to feel too cool. Humidity imbalance also acts as a breeding ground for irritants like mold, bacteria and viruses. Our humidifiers and dehumidifiers integrate with your HVAC system for quiet and effective adjustment of humidity levels. With optimal humidity levels, your air becomes more healthy, your comfort more consistent, and your energy costs reduced. 

Purify Indoor Air

No matter how clean your home, indoor air can still be dirty. Whole-home air purification is an integrated, seamless way to reduce irritating airborne particles by up to 98%. By capturing irritants like pollen, pet dander, dust, most bacteria and some viruses, indoor air quality is dramatically improved. Air purification is particularly useful for pet owners or people with allergy and asthma triggers. 

Your HVAC system keeps you cool during the summer via the indoor coil. Coils produce condensation, which can become a breeding ground for mold and bacteria. An ultraviolet germicidal light destroys the DNA of mold and bacteria. Ultraviolet germicidal lights are easily installed in the ductwork of your system and help improve the efficiency of your system. 

The integration of IAQ products into your home HVAC system, rather than stand-alone, single-space products, helps continually boost IAQ in every room. Plus, with HVAC integration, you benefit from an increase in system efficiency and improved energy savings.  

 Effective

  • Perfect for people sensitive to bacteria, mold or airborne viruses
  • 99% reduction in allergens and mold particles
  • 98% reduction in airborne dust

 Economical

  • Reduced energy use
  • Consistent air cleaning
  • Reduced fan usage thanks to lower air flow resistance

Dependable

  • Easy maintenance
  • Yearly filter replacement
  • Filter media has no moving parts

Indoor Air Quality Product Benefits

Fewer Irritants
Fewer irritants like pet dander, pollen, mold, bacteria and viruses
Entire-home Benefits
Affects your entire home instead of a single room
Better Efficiency
More effective heating and cooling for greater energy savings
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Fraser-Johnston® Indoor Air Quality Webinar Series

Contractors can learn from the experts in IAQ about the importance of indoor air quality, how it works and how it impacts air quality, savings and the long-term operation of HVAC equipment.

Benefits of Smart Home Integrations

You can further boost the benefits of IAQ products with the Fraser-Johnston® Reliant™ Hx™3 Touch-screen Thermostat or Fraser-Johnston® Hx™3 Communicating Zoning System. Smart thermostats and communicating systems include settings and advanced monitoring capabilities, optimizing your indoor air quality. 

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