HEPA Filters

Keep Your Family Safe at Home

As we strive to build tighter, more energy-efficient houses, we've created a problem that is affecting the health of thousands of men, women and children daily…Poor Indoor Air Quality.

Tighter houses prevent outside air from getting in, but they also prevent indoor air pollutants and allergens from carpet, pets, mold, plants, cooking and tobacco smoke from getting out. Your family could be breathing air that is five times more polluted than the air outside.

Three Steps to Better Indoor Air Quality

The American Lung Association states that there are three ways to improve the air in your home – source control, ventilation and filtration. Only you can control the sources of pollutants in your home, but a HEPA system can help provide the ventilation and filtration solutions your family needs to breathe easier.

Did You Know?

• HEPA filters are the #1 choice of physicians and are often used in hospital operating rooms where clean air environments are required.
  
  
• 94% of all respiratory ailments are caused by polluted air.
  
  
• 85% of Americans don't realize the air in their home may be a health hazard.
  
  
• Airborne particles larger than 10 microns get caught in the nose and throat.
  
  
• Particles smaller than 10 microns are easily inhaled into the lungs.
  
  
• Infants, the elderly and those with chronic respiratory diseases spend 90% of their time indoors.
  
  
• Levels of many common pollutants have been shown to be 2 to 5 times higher indoors than outdoors.
  
  
• The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has ranked indoor air pollution as a high priority public health risk.
  
  
• Asthma, particularly in children, has increased to an estimated 14.6 million.
  
  
• The World Health Organization has concluded that preventing exposure to environmental allergens may help prevent asthma.

To find out more about HEPA filtration for your house, call Allgeier Air today at (502) 458-7003