There are a lot of damaging particles in our surrounding environment, and air pollution can be a frightening health risk. Managing or doing away with the causes of these contaminants can battle this environmental health threat. It’s possible to air out your house with outside fresh air, but often inclement weather can make this impractical. For this reason, a home air cleaner can be a valuable tool to get rid of the air pollutants within your home.
A home air cleaner can be designed in such a way that it can be installed in the duct of a home’s central heating. It can also be put in the air-conditioning duct or the ventilating duct. In this way the air in the whole house can be cleaned. But it is also possible to clean the air in a single room or a specific area with the help of a portable room home air cleaner.
How Does It Work?
Most of the time a home air cleaner has mechanical air filters. These filters trap large airborne particles like dust, pollen, dust mite and cockroach allergens, molds and animal dander. However, these particles settle quickly and the air filters cannot remove them completely. When there is some movement in the house, these particles are stirred up, but the larger particles resettle before the air filter manages to remove them.
Most air-conditioners and residential furnaces have flat panel air filters and act as home air cleaners. Most of these filters are used to protect the equipment. But they do filter cat and dog allergens, viruses, bacteria and even dust mite allergens.
The portable home air cleaner has a fan to circulate the air and uses filters to clean the air. It can be moved from one room to the other and can be used wherever air cleaning is required. It is quite effective in reducing airborne pollutants, and depends on the size of the room or area it is placed in.
Health Matters
The home electronic air cleaner also removes small particles, but it is ineffective at removing larger particles. Electronic air cleaners can turn out ozone, which can irritate the lungs. Ultra fine particles may also be produced and this happens as a consequence of ozone mixing with indoor chemicals such as air fresheners and cleaning products. Such particles may cause unpleasant health problems.
The home air cleaner certainly helps to lessen levels of smaller airborne particles or allergens but it is not capable of removing microorganisms, which ultimately cause disease.
Children, old people or people suffering from asthma and allergies can benefit from a home air cleaner, especially if they are affected by the small particles in the air. But with larger particles, it is often difficult to control indoor pollution, and hence may not be of help at all.