If you live in a newly built home in Elk River, it was probably made with energy efficiency at the top of the list. This means increased insulation and windows and doors with enhanced seals. While these advances are great for keeping your heating and cooling expenses reasonable, they’re not so great for your indoor air quality.

Your home comfort system needs to work with a filter. But if you have a flat filter, you won’t be experiencing enough filtration. This style only delivers the lowest level of protection by blocking dust from infiltrating your home comfort system.

While you can install a pleated filter or one with a increased MERV rating, it still might not be adequate filtration, especially if someone in your house has allergies or other respiratory issues.

That’s where a whole-house air purifier comes in. These systems are placed within ductwork to provide powerful filtration around your home. Depending on the type you go with, you’ll be able to get rid of allergens, odors and even some viruses under certain airflow conditions.

Here are our top solutions from Lennox, an industry leader in air purification.

Best Air Purifiers from Lennox

1. HEPA Air Purifiers

A HEPA air purifier, like the Healthy Climate® High-Efficiency Particulate Air Filtration System, provides the best filtration. These filters were first created to guard scientists as they created the atomic bomb. Today, they’re necessary in hospitals and other medical facilities.

The Healthy Climate HEPA Filtration System has a three-step filtration procedure. A prefilter attracts larger irritants before the HEPA filter catches the remainder of miniscule particles. Then, a charcoal filter eradicates odors and chemical vapors.

The PureAir™ S Air Purification System works with all HVAC brands and seamlessly connects with your smart home. It reduces the three major kinds of indoor air irritants:

• Airborne particles
• Chemical odors and vapors
• Germs and bacteria, under certain airflow conditions

This air purifier can get rid of 99.9%* of pollutants, including mold spores, pollen, dust and pet dander. It’s also potent at reducing or eradicating 90%¹ of flu and cold viruses under certain airflow conditions. And, as the result of laboratory and field studies, it removes and destroys approximately 50% of your home’s odors and chemical vapors within 24 hours.

The PureAir S is equipped with sensing features that make it simple to service. When linked with an iComfort® S30 smart thermostat, you’ll be notified when to replace the filter and UVA light.² This home air purifier must be installed with communicating Lennox systems and the iComfort S30.

2. Media Air Cleaners

Lennox Healthy Climate® Media Air Cleaners come in in a variety of MERV ratings to work with your needs. This rating measures how good filters are at trapping contaminants. The better the number, the greater the filtration.

The Healthy Climate Carbon Clean 16® Media Air Cleaner is recommended for residences with allergy suffers and pets. This is a HEPA filter air purifier, because it has a MERV 16 rating for hospital-grade filtration. And it removes more than 95%³ of unhealthy particles from your residence’s air.

The Healthy Climate 13 Media Air Cleaner is great for households who desire better protection from viruses and bacteria. This filter captures 99% of larger particles including dust, pollen and lint. And up to 54% of smaller particles down to 0.3 microns.⁴

The Healthy Climate 11 Media Air Cleaner is a a fantastic air purifier for allergies and in houses with pets. It removes more than 87% of bigger particles down to 3 microns and more than 28% of finer ones down to 0.3 microns.⁴ It’s able to deliver this effective filtration without running up the price of turning on your heating and cooling system.

These three media air cleaners can be used with any brand of HVAC system. But despite that, it’s essential to be aware that some of the more substantial ones, like MERV 16 and 13, may restrict your system’s airflow. This can hike up your heating and cooling costs.

3. UV Air Purifiers

The sun’s UV rays are to blame when you get a stinging sunburn. But this kind of light has a beneficial application when installed inside your ductwork. It’s also powerful enough to reduce germs, mold and fungi under certain airflow conditions.

In reality, the Healthy Climate UV Germicidal Light can decrease the concentration of airborne microorganisms by 50% in as fast as 45 minutes.⁵ This light wrecks cell structure, which prohibits these microorganisms from growing and spreading throughout your home.

And this UV air purifier can also help keep your heating and cooling system clean and working properly. It wipes out of germs, mold and fungi lurking inside ductwork and your system itself. This UV light air purifier achieves all these tasks without making lung-inflaming ozone.⁶

Breathe Better with the Help of Our Air Purification Pros

Your household’s comfort and health is important to us at Home Comfort Heating & Air. We are aware there are many possibilities out there. That’s why we make it easy to partner with our indoor air quality pros. We specialize in creating solutions that meet your needs and budget, and we’d love to hear more about your home and your air quality issues. Reach us at 763-276-0617 right away to begin.

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¹Based on laboratory and field studies.

²PureAir™ S requires the iComfort^® S30 and a communicating indoor unit.

³Leading consumer magazine, January 2012. Based on the published CADR, which is the standardized measurement system to determine the cubic feet of clean air produced per minute. Particles captured range in size down to 0.3 micron. One micron = 1/25,000 of an inch in diameter.

⁴Based on lab tests conducted on filters with conditions included in ASHRAE standard 52.2 for E1 and E3 size ranges.

⁵Based on constant circulation of air in the home, 3,000-square-foot home with a 5-ton air handler.

⁶U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, “Ozone Generators that are Sold as Air Cleaners: An Assessment of Effective and Health Consequences,” August 2006.