It is hard to know if an air purifier is working and cleaning your air effectively until you go to swap out your air purifiers filter and see how dirty it has gotten. Even at this point you will not be able to truly know how well your air purifier is working because all of the microscopic particles are too small to see. Some indications showing your air purifier is working are: less dust on your house contents such as on furniture, you’ll notice a ‘cleaner’ smell to your room air (particularly noticeable if you have an air purifier with an ionizer) and you’ll see a decrease in allergens around your home.

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Most air purifiers have an indicator light which comes on when it is time to change the air purifiers filter. These indicator lights are often set to a time period rotation so the filter will be reported as requiring changing regardless of how much dirty air has actually pass through it. Often as an extra qualification and to help you decide weather or not a air purifier filters need changing the manufacturers include a color-coded chart to help you get an idea as to how dirty the filter is.

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An air purifiers HEPA filter only requires replacing once every twelve to eighteen months or so depending on how much you use it. Whereas an air purifiers carbon filter would more likely need replacing over a period of around three to six months again depending on your level of usage. Always read the label/instructions of your air purifier system to get specific details for that particular air purifier.

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The Journal of Allergy & Clinical Immunology (JACU) have reported that more then 25% of Americans are in fact conscious of indoor allergens. Allergens found in our homes come from cats, dogs and dust mites and are irritants. These allergens are often hard to get rid off, particularly because over three quarters of the average household consists of soft surfaces.

During the winter months is when you need to be most active regarding staying on top of the allergens in your home. We spend more time indoors when it’s cold outside and also tend to close our windows and doors to the outside for longer periods of time. Cleaning your home properly will certainly help towards improving and controlling the indoor air quality of your home. You can also get additional Allergy relief from air purifiers placed around your home.

The indoor allergens created by dust mites, dogs and cats get trapped within the soft surfaces of upholstered furniture, curtains, bedding and window treatments. The allergens found within these soft surfaces are frequently thrown up in to the indoor air simply due to people going about their everyday lives; such as fluffing up pillows or sitting down in to a sofa.

Here are a few simple tips for reducing indoor allergens and which will hopefully help you get some allergy relief:

• Take a cloth that captures allergens and use it to regularly dust your homes hard surfaces such as floors, blinds, furniture and ceiling fans.
• Regularly and thoroughly hoovering your household will reduce the allergens caught in your rugs and carpets.
• Regularly wash with hot water all your bedding; sheets, pillowcases, blankets, mattresses, etc.
• Renew/replace your pillows in a 1 to 2 year period.
• Buy an air purifier which you can use to maintain fresh and clean air in your home. Allergy relief air purifiers will reduce the amount of pollutants and allergens in your indoor air creating a more pleasant space to live in.

Use these allergen reduction tips along with an allergy relief air purifier for a more allergen free home and start living a more allergy free life!

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HEPA air ionizer purifiers, these are air purifiers that use independently controlled ionizers, providing you with the option to release negative ions in to the surrounding air via the filtered air coming out of the air purifier. You have the choice to turn this function on or off for the HEPA air ionizer purifier. Ions are very small particles carrying a charge, negative or positive. Ions inhabit all of our surroundings naturally, throughout the air, ground and water. The negative and positive Ions are totally harmless, odorless and colourless. In the HEPA air ionizers purification process the negative ions play their part by clinging to tiny airborne particles in the surrounding air.

This causes the tiny particles to become negatively charged which results in them joining other particles that are positively charged which could be pollen, dust, pet dander or smoke. When these particles clump together you end up with larger particles that are going to be more susceptible to being captured by the air ionizer purifiers filter system. These larger particles may also become attracted to objects or surfaces throughout your home that are positively charged, such as floors, walls or lamps. This is likely to be a more frequent occurrence as the purifiers filter nears the end of its life and due to a decrease in effectiveness less of the charged particles are captured by the HEPA air ionizer purifiers filter.

If you use a HEPA air ionizer purifier for a long period you will likely find dust has collected on the front panel and grills. This is because of the ionization effect from the negative ions leaving the air outlet. This displays further proof of the effectiveness negative ions have for cleaning indoor air. To remove dust gathered at these areas simply clean it away with a soft brush or damp cloth.
You may notice when you use a HEPA air ionizer purifier you will experience some popping and cracking sounds occasionally. Do not be alarmed as this is completely normal and is simply a result of dust particles interrupting the flow of ions which generates a low build up of ions that eventually discharge creating that cracking and popping sound. Nothing to worry about.

If your HEPA air ionizer purifier is used with a dirty filter you may experience larger than normal amounts of dirty particles coming out of your HEPA air ionizer purifier and clinging to your home and its contents such as carpets, walls and other furniture. These dirty particles can be extremely hard to get rid of. If your household has more than the usual amounts of dirty particles such as dust, smoke or pet dander your HEPA air ionizer purifier filters life expectancy will be much shorter so you must therefore check the state of your HEPA filters more often and perhaps run the air ionizer less frequent than you usually would.

Remember it is very important that you replace the HEPA filter for you HEPA air ionizer purifier when recommended to do so by your devices instructions.

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Washable foam is a foam layer in the purification cycle that helps remove larger particles and is designed for easy cleaning. To clean the washable foam filter you just take it out of the unit and wash it with warm soapy water, rinse it with clean water and then hang it out to dry. You must make sure it is dry right through before placing it back in the air purifier unit.

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The carbon filter inside an air purifier is there to reduce nasty odors and trap the larger particles from within the air.

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Air purifiers are available to suit most room sizes. Locate the AHAM seal on the product packaging for the information detailing the appropriate room size for that particular air purifier. You may find that many air purifiers have their recommended room size information on or near the front of their packaging as well. Room size can range from 6′x9′ to 20′x24′ and are always related to the product AHAM test results.

So who is AHAM? …

AHAM is the abbreviation for the Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers. They are an organization which certifies results of tests performed on home appliances (i.e. dehumidifiers, refrigerators, air purifiers, etc.). External laboratories are used to test and rate various types of appliances. Their website link is: www.aham.org

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Air purifiers take out a lot of the pollutants from our air which can irritate allergies and asthma. These pollutants include airborne particulate as small as 0.3 microns and includes pollen, dust, pet dander, mold spores and smoke.

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Whole house air purifiers are designed by manufacturers so that they can be installed in a air conditioning, central heating, or HVAC system. One of the major benefits of having a whole house air purifier is that they are completely out of sight because they literally become ‘part’ of the house. The filters for whole house air purifiers are found in a plenum or air-grille. Whenever your central systems fan starts up and moves the air around your home it will be doing so through the whole house air purifier filters thus cleaning most of the air in your home.

This is a great way to purify the air of your whole house with minimal disruption, however, not every household has a system already build in which can accommodate whole house air purifiers.

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