Sniffles, coughing, and the dreaded flu are common during these colder months. Families spend more time indoors during the flu season, which runs from October to March, which raises the possibility of airborne viruses spreading throughout the house. Because of this, maintaining the health of your home depends heavily on the quality of the indoor air. Thankfully, there is a proactive way to eliminate bacteria and viruses from your indoor air with the Fresh-Aire UV system, a modern in-duct HVAC air purifier. This flu season, learn how Fresh-Aire UV may help create a safer and healthier atmosphere in your house.
Harnessing UV-C Light for Healthier Indoor Air
The Fresh-Aire UV system uses UV-C light technology to inactivate pathogens as they pass through your HVAC system. This cutting-edge approach provides comprehensive air purification throughout the home, making it a highly effective air treatment system for flu season.
The Science Behind UV-C Technology
Fresh-Aire UV utilizes UV-C light to break down the DNA of harmful microorganisms like viruses, bacteria, and mold spores. By doing so, it prevents these pathogens from reproducing and spreading throughout your home. Studies have shown that UV-C light can neutralize up to 99.99% of airborne viruses, including influenza, within seconds. This fast action makes it ideal for maintaining healthier indoor air quality during peak flu season.
Whole-Home Air Treatment with Fresh-Aire UV
Unlike portable air purifiers that only target specific rooms, Fresh-Aire UV’s in-duct installation treats all the air circulating through your HVAC system. This comprehensive air treatment system ensures every room in your home benefits from cleaner, safer air. Installed directly into your ducts, the Fresh-Aire UV system continuously treats airborne contaminants as air flows through, keeping each room’s air quality high and helping reduce overall exposure to pathogens.
Why Fresh-Aire UV is a Perfect Flu Season Solution
Fresh-Aire UV is designed to address the unique challenges of flu season by improving indoor air quality and reducing airborne viruses, allergens, and other pollutants.
Reducing Viruses and Improving Air Quality
During flu season, every bit of added protection helps. Fresh-Aire UV’s powerful UV-C light technology inactivates airborne viruses and allergens, making it an essential component of a healthier indoor environment. This can significantly reduce the spread of airborne pathogens that thrive indoors during colder months.
According to the CDC, maintaining good air quality is crucial in reducing the spread of respiratory viruses like the flu. As the Fresh-Aire UV website states, “Our in-duct air purifiers provide cleaner, fresher air, with none of the harmful ozone byproducts.”
Maintaining HVAC Efficiency and Cleaner Coils
In addition to improving air quality, Fresh-Aire UV helps keep your HVAC system functioning at peak efficiency. The UV-C light prevents biofilm buildup on the coils, which means the system doesn’t have to work as hard to circulate air. This added efficiency is particularly valuable during winter, when HVAC systems run more frequently, keeping your home comfortable while reducing maintenance needs. By incorporating Fresh-Aire UV, you’re not only improving air quality but also helping your HVAC system perform more efficiently and last longer.
Expert Installation of Fresh-Aire UV Systems with Smith & Keene
Installing a whole-house air treatment system requires an expert technician to properly assess the needs of your home as well as the proper integration into your existing HVAC system. Call Smith & Keene’s expert technicians today to ensure your in-duct HVAC air purifier is seamlessly integrated into your existing HVAC setup.
Frequently Asked Questions
What Is A Whole-House Air Treatment System?
The EPA found that indoor air quality typically has 2 to 5 times more pollutants than outdoor air. While traditional air filters associated with your home’s heating and cooling system capture some contaminants, they don’t truly purify the air. To tackle biological and chemical pollutants circulating in your home’s air requires a whole-house air treatment system.
A whole-house air treatment system is a purifying system that attaches to your home’s air handler. Utilizing specialized technology, whole house air treatment systems aim to better purify your indoor air by cleaning biological and chemical pollutants.
Why Install A Whole-House Air Treatment System?
Improve In-Home Air Quality
Most obviously, a whole-house air treatment system provides safer and cleaner air to breathe in your home. Many homeowners in Hampton Roads are concerned with the mold and bacteria that frequently collects in the ductwork in this highly humid area. Mold and bacteria are biological contaminants that will continue to grow and multiply if not addressed.
Foul odors from HVAC systems are another common complaint. In addition to the musty smell of mold growth in ductwork, chemical contaminants can cause ill smells. No amount of air fresheners can eliminate the odors of chemical contaminants nor remove their toxicity.
Whole-house air treatment systems address both the biological contaminants (mold, bacteria, and viruses) and chemical contaminants.
Improve Life Of Your HVAC System
The cleaner your HVAC system is, the more efficient it will run. The more efficient your heating and cooling system runs, the less you will pay on utility bills. Additionally, if your system is running smoothly and efficiently, it will be less likely to need costly repairs. The life of your HVAC system will be extended by being cleaner and more efficient.
Is A Whole-Home Air Treatment System A Convenient Air Purifying Option?
Whole-home air treatment systems are easily integrated into existing HVAC systems and or ductwork. Unlike room purifiers, whole-home systems do not take up space in your home. They are integrated with your current HVAC system. Additionally, whole-home air treatment systems are self-cleaning. They require little to no maintenance.
Why Does UV Light Kill Germs?
UV-C light (the frequency used in germicidal UV lights) kills germs by disrupting their DNA which prevents them from reproducing, effectively killing them. In nature, this frequency of light is filtered out by the Earth’s atmosphere so microbes have no defense against it. Source: Fresh-Aire UV
Is UV Light Safe For Children And Pets?
When a UV light system is installed in a central air system the germ-killing effect takes place inside the air system and is limited to that area. There is no danger to any living thing in the home except microbes that are carried by the air into the central air system. Source: Fresh-Aire UV
How Long Does It Take For The UV Light To Kill Mold?
The germ-killing effect starts immediately with about 90% of surface microbes sterilized within the first few minutes, and about 99.99% sterilized after the first 24 hours. Source: Fresh-Aire UV
Breathe Easier This Flu Season with Fresh-Aire UV
With flu season here, now is the time to invest in a system that can enhance indoor air quality, protect against airborne pathogens, and support a healthier home environment. Fresh-Aire UV is designed to inactivate harmful viruses and bacteria, making it a valuable addition to your home’s HVAC system. Contact Smith & Keene today to schedule your Fresh-Aire UV installation and breathe easier this winter.
