Humidification

Aprilaire: The World's First Completely Automatic Humidifier

How Dry Are You?

When you think of dryness, do you picture the arid, wind-whipped sands of the Sahara? The cracked, sun-baked earth of Death Valley? It might surprise you to know that there are places in this world that are twice as dry as those. One of the driest places on earth could be your home. And, it's this "desert dryness" that makes you feel uncomfortable, robbing moisture from your home, your furnishings, even your skin.

Relative humidity is the percentage of moisture in the air compared to its maximum capability to hold moisture under the same conditions. Seventy degree air can hold more than 12 times as much moisture as 10 degree air. Outside air at 10 degrees and 70% relative humidity when heated to a comfortable temperature in your home has a relative humidity of just 7%. Even with the addition of moisture produced by normal household activities such as cooking, laundry, and showers, you will seldom achieve comfortable indoor humidity levels without a whole house humidifier.

Humidify for Comfort

The recommended indoor relative humidity is three to four times the humidity in an average North American home in winter. If you're not reaching these levels in your home, you could be exposing yourself and your family to the physical aggravations of dryness. In fact, doctors often mention dry air as one of the causes for nose, throat, and skin discomfort.

Unhumidified heated air also dries out the wood in your home, shrinking the wood framing around doors and windows. Gaps then occur, allowing cold air in, making your home less energy efficient. Dry air also causes wood floors and trim to separate, walls and ceilings to crack; it can harm expensive musical instruments and electronic equipment such as computers; dryness even weakens the joints of expensive furnishings.

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Filtration

Aprilaire High Efficiency Air Cleaning

What You Can't See Can Hurt You

It's a fact: the trapped air we breathe in our homes can be loaded with dust, pollen, spores, and other pollutant particles. In many cases, it's worse than the air outside, especially if you are one of the more than 40 million allergy sufferers in North America. Combine that with the fact that we spend 90% of our time inside and indoor air quality becomes a major concern.

Although most pollutant particles are so small that you can't see them, many are annoying or even harmful to you and your family, and potentially damaging to your furnace, air conditioner, and related equipment. The standard throw-away filter or electrostatic filter in your furnace traps only about 15% of the pollutant particles in your home's air. The rest circulates throughout your home.

Turn Your Furnace and Air Conditioner Into a Clean Air System

The Aprilaire Air Cleaner offers the following benefits:
• 99% efficiency on pollen and spores
• filters out tobacco smoke particles which can stain fabrics and walls
• cuts down on airborne dust and dirt
• increases efficiency and service life of heating and cooling equipment
• provides clean air for your family's health
• carpeting, draperies and upholstery will stay cleaner and last longer
• walls stay cleaner and require less painting, cleaning, papering
• widely recommended by allergy doctors
• filtering media lasts one to two years
• requires no service calls
• uses no electricity
• absolutely silent operation
• lifetime limited warranty
PLUS:
• surprisingly low installation cost
• low operating cost - uses no electricity

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Field Controls "UV-Aire" Air Purifying System

The UV-Aire Air Purifying System is a safe, silent, and proven way to make your home a healthier place to live. UV has been proven effective in hospitals, schools, daycare centers, restaurants and hotels. Now, with UV-Aire, this technology is available for residential applications. Installed directly inside forced-air ductwork, UV-Aire silently and effectively reduces airborne contaminates, including molds, bacteria, yeasts, dust mites, and viruses that can cause allergies and sick building syndrome.

Healthy Air
For more than 50 years, scientists have known that one of the most effective sterilizers of airborne contaminants is natural sunlight -- not the light we see when we look out the window, but the invisible ultraviolet rays. The most powerful part of the UV wave is called the "C" band, and that's what UV-Aire uses to destroy and reduce microorganisms in the air.

How It Works
UV-Aire uses the energy from a specially designed, high-intensity UV-C bulb to kill microorganisms that cycle through a home's HVAC system. Mounted inside the ductwork with an external control switch, UV-Aire sterilies contaminants as they pass by the bulb. The process requires very little maintenance and costs just pennies a day to operate. UV-Aire could be one of the best health and comfort investments you'll ever make.

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Ventilation

Nutech "Lifebreath" Heat Recovery Ventilation

Nutech's compact, electrically powered Lifebreath HRV moves stale, contaminated, warm air from inside the house to the outdoors. At the same time it draws fresh, oxygen-laden air from outside and distributes it throughout the house. Stale, polluted air is constantly being replaced by an equal quantity of fresh, clean air. As the two air streams pass through the HRV they do not mix.They pass on either side of an aluminum heat-exchange core which transfers heat from the outgoing air to the incoming air. The efficiency of the Lifebreath HRV is so great that virtually none of the warmth collected from your home is lost to the outside. In summer, the HRV works in reverse - removing heat from the incoming air and transferring it to the outgoing air, to keep your home cool and fresh.

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Honeywell - The Extra Strength Air Cleaning Solution

Zap, Then Trap... Get the best defense against airborne bacteria and mold... Team your Honeywell Ultraviolet Air Treatment System with a high performance Honeywell whole house air cleaner.

ZAP: Kill most gerrns before they circulate again. (Return-air duct models.) Located in the ductwork upstream of your heating and cooling system, the Ultraviolet Air Treatment System continuously emits high intensity ultraviolet (UV) energy. The energy kills a high percentage of airborne bacteria passing by the UV light.

TRAP: Capture germs and other particles. A Honeywell electronic air cleaner captures up to 91% of the remaining live bacteria and dead bacteria particles in the air passing through the air cleaner. All told, the electronic air cleaner captures more than 94% of all the particles (0.5 microns and larger) from the air passing through the system.

STOP: Put it on a clean coil - and it stays clean. (Coil irradiation model.) Mounted next to your central air conditioner's cooling coils, the Ultraviolet Air Treatment System continuously bathes cooling system components with mold-stopping UV energy. Put it on a dirty coil and tests show that it kills up to 99.9% of mold that could otherwise thrive on your system's cooling coils. Eradicates the "dirty sock" odor sometimes associated with mold growth on cooling coils.

Maintenance is a snap! Keep your Honeywell Ultraviolet Air Treatment System running at peak performance simply by replacing the bulbs once a year. Changing bulbs is a snap - no tools required.

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