How to improve your home’s indoor air quality

If you think you are protected from air pollution inside the comfort of your home, you may be sadly mistaken. According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), indoor environments are around 2-5 times as polluted as the air outdoors, and occasionally up to 100 times as polluted! The EPA has ranked indoor air pollution as one of the top 5 environmental dangers facing our planet. As outdoor temperatures become unbearable, we spend more time indoors, and the quality of our indoor air becomes more and more important to our health. 

There is little you can do to affect the quality of the air outdoors, but there is a lot you can do to improve indoor air quality in your home. When researching ways to improve your home’s indoor air, you will find many options to choose from. But what is the best solution for your home, and will it really improve the quality of the air you breathe? Or does it just make the air smell better, possibly with chemical fragrances that make it even worse for your health? Cleaning with chemicals and fragrances may lead you to think you are improving your environment, but indoor air quality can be made even worse by the introduction of harmful chemicals to the surfaces you touch and the air you breathe.

An alarming fact: If you don’t have an air purifier, you are the air purifier. 

Before we discuss what you can do about improving your indoor air quality, let’s talk about what’s so bad in the air and what some of the signs and symptoms are.

Indoor air pollution is a serious health hazard

Common household airborne pollutants can include: 

• Dust and particulates, which is generally composed of dead skin, dust mites and dust mite feces, insect parts, pet dander, and more. Particulate matter – often written as PM –  is made up of tiny pieces of dust, dirt, soot, smoke, droplets of liquid, and other pollutants. Sometimes you can see the fine particles, but other times they can only be seen with a microscope. Particulate matter is categorized based on size. Larger particulate matter is called PM10 and much finer particulate matter is called PM2.5. PM2.5 is most harmful to your health. PM2.5  is so small they go into the lungs all the way to the air sacs called alveoli. Once there, they can irritate and corrode the alveoli wall, damaging the lungs and causing lung disease. The most common feedback we receive from customers that have installed one of our air purifiers is that the dust is almost gone, and they are breathing so much better. 
• Smoke emanating from tobacco, wood-burning fireplaces, fuel-burning heaters, and cooking. 
• VOCs (Volatile Organic Compounds), chemicals from spray cleaners, perfumed deodorizers, carpets, and other building materials. Newly constructed and refurbished homes can off-gas harmful VOCs for many months 
• Microscopic bacteria and viruses. Since the recent global pandemic, virus concerns have become of utmost concern.  

What are the symptoms of poor indoor air quality? 

You may have poor indoor air quality if you regularly experience any of the following: 

• Increased allergy symptoms 
• Headaches 
• Fatigue 
• Poor sleep 
• Excessive dust on surfaces 

What improves indoor air quality? 

As a licensed residential and commercial HVAC contractor, I have installed and serviced many of the air purification systems used by professionals. In my experience, the best solutions for air purification use ActivePure technology, which is the solution we use in our home. It not only purifies the air we breathe, but also the surfaces we touch, where most of the germ transfer happens. ActivePure Technology relies on chemistry, not chemicals, to transform your air into powerful and effective molecules. 

ActivePure neutralizes the pollutants in the air and on surfaces, rather than trying to capture them with a filter. It uses the law of gasses to reduce harmful contaminants from the air and surfaces. The law of gasses is why you can smell microwave popcorn throughout your house when you make it. Filters can only capture what passes through them, whereas ActivePure seeks out and destroys these contaminants where they are, all throughout your home, both in the air and on the surfaces you touch, such as countertops, bathrooms, kitchens, and doorknobs.

How does ActivePure work?

ActivePure technology brings nature’s outdoor process of purifying the air indoors, and is safe for people and pets. Anchored in science and innovation, ActivePure replicates the natural process of photolysis, which occurs when sunlight interacts with air moisture. Ambient indoor air is introduced into the ActivePure cell, which then converts the humidity into the same therapeutic molecules as those produced by the sun to cleanse outdoor air. These specialized ActivePure molecules target and neutralize airborne and surface-based pollutants without chemicals, ozone, or the need for ventilating, trapping, or filtering them. (Some ActivePure products do have an ozone option, which helps reduce odors.)

The science behind ActivePure

Reactive metals combined with UV light and a proprietary catalytic process transform particulates into charged clusters of hydrogen and oxygen (hydrogen peroxide, hydroxyls, and superoxide ions), which are antimicrobial agents found in nature. Once released, the particles become supercharged (superoxide ions and hydroxyls) to attack and destroy contaminants, fungi, mold, viruses, and odor-causing bacteria. 

The charged “air scrubbers” get rid of the microscopic impurities that are invisible to the human eye. Even the contaminates that hide underneath cushions and rugs get found and eliminated by the charged ions! Have you ever noticed all the dust particles in the air when the sun shines through your windows? The human eye can only see less than 5% of what is there. Getting these out of the air is crucial to improved health.

ActivePure air purifiers are scientifically proven to: 

• Reduce dirt and dust from the air 
• Reduce the presence of many common viruses, bacteria, molds, and fungi 
• Reduce smoke, allergens, odors, and volatile organic compounds 
• Reduce the virus in the air that causes COVID-19 by 99.9% in under 1 minute 
• Reduce germs and bacteria on surfaces, where the majority of germ transfer happens 
• Deliver fresh, clean-smelling air year-round

ActivePure technology is the only air-cleaning technology awarded the Certified Space Technology seal of approval by the Space Foundation and is used in the International Space Station. ActivePure technology is scientifically proven effective by multiple independent testing laboratories and used around the world. 

Independent testing conducted by the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), one of the world’s top biosafety testing facilities, shows that ActivePure Technology inactivated over 99.9% of highly concentrated airborne SARS-CoV-2 virus—the virus that causes COVID19—in an enclosed setting to below detectable levels in a 60 second testing period. ActivePure technology reduces many bacterial and viral contaminates. 

Further details and scientific data can be found on the ActivePure website.

How Does ActivePure compare to other solutions?

ActivePure Technology vs Competitors

I believe ActivePure  is the ideal solution for safe, natural indoor air and surface purification. I’m not aware of another technology that addresses all the problems we face with this battle, nor any other solution that has the scientific data to back it up. 

I’ve been using and providing this technology since 2016 and am so confident that it will improve your environment, that for qualified prospects, I will place a unit on a trial basis free of charge so they can try it out before buying it. If it didn’t work I surely wouldn’t be making this offer. 

ActivePure technology is available in over 80 different products for use in home, businesses, autos, public transportation, medical and healthcare environments, and much more. You can learn more about ActivePure on our website, or contact us for more information.