How To Breathe Easier In Your Home

(ARA) - Families spend about 90 percent of their time in their homes. So, it only makes sense that you want your house as clean and comfortable as possible.

However, recent studies show that indoor air can be five times more polluted than outdoor air. Indoor air pollutants have increased in recent years for a number of reasons, including the fact that homeowners use more household cleaners, more houses are built and decorated with synthetic materials, and homes are better insulated, thus sealing in humidity, smoke, dust and other pollutants.

This all adds up to 72 trillion microscopic pollutants that find their way into your home each day. It is no wonder why up to 50 percent of all illnesses are either caused or aggravated by poor indoor air quality. If any of your family members suffer from asthma or allergies, you know all too well about these problems.

How do you get cleaner air where you need it the most? Many homeowners think that their existing heating and cooling system is cleaning the air of these pollutants and allergens. But, the typical 1-inch throwaway filter that comes with most systems is designed only to prevent large particles from damaging the equipment, versus cleaning the air. Other homeowners think that room air cleaners will do the job. However, this portable filter only offers help for specific rooms and doesn't trap the tiniest particles.

Instead, families can consider investing in a whole-house air filtration system. Unlike room air cleaners, a whole-house air filtration system like American Standard AccuClean, works as part of your heating and cooling system and is attached to the furnace or air handler. It's designed to clean the air in every room of your home versus an individual room. AccuClean, for example, removes up to 99.98 percent of airborne allergens from the air passing through it before circulating it throughout your home, helping to reduce asthma and allergy triggers. Proprietary technology traps allergens as small as 0.1 microns in size - those tiny allergens that can no longer be filtered by your nose and throat and therefore settle into your lungs. This lets your family breathe easier.

Homeowners who have installed a whole-house air filtration system notice a huge difference. "With American Standard AccuClean, the air inside our home smells and feels clean, " says Dana Nordberg, who recently had a system installed in her family's St. Michael, Minn., home. "Our family and friends have noticed, too. They keep asking us what's different inside and they comment on how comfortable it is."

One of the main beneficiaries of the whole-house air filtration system was Nordberg's young daughter, Callie, who suffers from allergies and asthma. Nordberg reports that Callie no longer needs daily - or even regular - medications to help her condition since their home's air is cleaner.

AccuClean is available as part of a new American Standard central system or as an accessory to existing central heating or cooling systems. Installing the system as an accessory to an existing central system is a quick process that can be done easily by any independent American Standard dealer.

For more information on whole-house air filtration systems or to find an American Standard independent dealer near you, visit www.americanstandardair.com.

Courtesy of ARAcontent