Indoor Air Quality
Here's What You're Breathing
The average person breathes 3,400 gallons of air each day. Unfortunately, air isn’t all you’re inhaling. Mold spores, pollen, bacteria, dust and other particles exist in virtually all indoor air.
Since homes are built increasingly airtight to conserve energy, harmful pollutants and dry, stale air can be trapped inside with no where to escape. The result can be degraded indoor air quality.
According to the Environmental Protection Agency, the air inside a home can be 2-5 times more polluted than air outside. However, as a homeowner, there is a lot you can do to improve the air your family breathes.
Clean the Air in Your Entire Home.
When a Honeywell Whole-House Air Cleaner is installed by Vertex Mechanical into your home’s central heating and cooling system, it traps and filters 98% of pollutants passing through the duct system. This will also keep dust and dirt from building up on your equipment which means your heating and cooling system will run better (requiring less maintanence) and have a longer operating lifecycle.
The Honeywell Electronic Air Cleaner works by placing an electric charge on airborne particles and then collecting the charged pollutants like a magnet. You can say goodbye to monthly filter replacements by simply washing the air cleaner cells in your dishwasher or sink.
A standard 1-inch furnace filter offers only limited capture of airborne particles and pollutants compared to the deep-pleated media filter found in a Honeywell Media Air Cleaner.
Honeywell Media and Electronic Air Cleaners are easy-to-use, whole-house filtration solutions that trap up to 60 times more airborne particles than a standard 1-inch filter.
Over time, the purchase of a Honeywell Whole-House Cleaner can pay for itself compared to the monthly purchase of of 1-inch filter. Plus, you’re sure to notice a difference in the quality of air in your home.
Humidify the Air in Your Home.
When your home’s humidity level is too low, you can experience
things like dry skin and chapped lips or hardwood floors separat-
ing at the seams. Even the piano can go out of tune. In the winter-
time, relative humidity inside the average home hovers around
15%, while even the Sahara Desert has an average humidity of 25%. Simply turning up your thermostat
in the winter can really dry out your home and make things uncomfortable.
That’s why it’s important to maintain your home’s most comfortable
humidity level automatically with a Honeywell TrueSTEAM
Humidification System installed by Vertex Mechanical.
This is the most reliable, efficient, and eco-friendly way to add moisture
to dry air.
Proper humidity provides a more comfortable living environment. Plus, since humidified air feels warmer, you can turn down your thermostat for energy savings.
Control the Temperature in Your Home.
A thermostat’s job is to control the set temperature in your home.
It sounds simple, right? Yet not all thermostats are created equal.
Many thermostats available today read one temperature, but control
to another. They can swing above and below your set temperature
up to 6 degrees, resulting in discomfort for you and your family.
Precise temperature control is important because the average person can sense as little as a two degree change in temperature and become uncomfortable.
All Honeywell thermostats are designed to control temperature to within one degree of the set temperature. Honeywell Programmable Thermostats are so easy-to-use they’re “effortless”.
When used as directed, a Honeywell Programmable Thermostat can save you big money-
up to 33% on your annual heating and cooling costs- by automatically changing to an energy
saving temperature setting when you’re away from home or asleep.
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