Indoor Air Quality

We can't live without air. Lots of it - clean, fresh air, full of life-giving oxygen. Yet our homes today are built to keep fresh air out, all in the name of energy efficiency. Even if you don't live in an ultra-efficient home, you have probably spent some time recently weather stripping doors and windows, caulking around frames, filling walls and attics with insulation.

As a result, you've cut your heating and air conditioning costs. Excellent. But at the same time you have made it more difficult for fresh air to move into your home and for stale air to move out. The indoor air quality has deteriorated, and that makes the home environment uncomfortable and unhealthy.

Study after study shows that as homes become tighter and more energy efficient, more contaminants become trapped inside. The air we breathe in our homes is loaded with pollutants like pollen, lung damaging dust, pet hair, dander, dust mites, tobacco smoke, spores, disease-causing bacteria and viruses.

Considering the typical throwaway furnace filter only traps about 5 - 15% of these polluting particles and that the slightest traces of pollutants can trigger miserable reactions for allergy sufferers, you need serious help.

Solace Homeworks offers a variety of effective, efficient and technologically advanced products to improve the air quality in your home including:
- Air Cleaners
- Air Purifiers
- Humidifiers
- Health Concerns
To find out which products best meet the needs of your living environment and health concerns, contact SOLACE Energy Centre today.

1. Air Cleaners

The Aprilaire Media Air Cleaner is a silent, low-maintenance, inexpensive air filtration system. It utilizes a simple, remarkably effective HEPA-type filtering media that actually improves its particulate-capturing capability the longer it is used. For particles larger than five microns, efficiency reaches 99%. Even the smallest particles, as small as one micron, can be filtered out at 95% effectiveness. The high-density filter unit is attached to your existing heating or cooling system, where it captures pollutants from conditioned air before it is distributed to the rooms of your home.

Benefits
- Never less than 99% efficient on pollen and spores
- 60% average efficiency on all particles
- Provides allergy relief. Ask your doctor
- Air Cleaner media lasts one to two years
- Protects heating and cooling equipment
- Absolutely silent operation
- Uses no electricity
- Lifetime limited warranty

Bryant's EzFlex air cleaner helps reduce the effects of airborne pollutants by trapping particles as small as .3 microns. It's much more effective than a furnace filter and even easier to maintain. Just pull out the cartridge-type filter and push in a new one - no monthly cleanings or maintenance necessary.

Ezflexl air cleaners can help your entire system operate more efficiently by reducing dirt and dust build-up on the system's components. This means lower utility bills. By keeping your system clean, this air cleaner promotes long-term reliability and peak performance season after season.

The Lifebreath Air Cleaner originated by Nutech removes close to 100% of coarser particles such as pollen, fungus spores, dust, animal dander and dirt; removes close to 90% of tobacco and wood smoke particles and some bacteria.

Nutech researched and discovered that when particle-laden air is forced through a narrow airway, the particles are repeatedly flung against the internal walls. If the walls are smooth, the particles bounce off and re-enter the air stream.

In the Lifebreath Air Cleaner, the walls of the internal airway through which dirty air passes are made of a pleated fabric, which traps particles as they are flung out of the air stream. The result is a high rate of removal of even the smallest particles, with no filters to obstruct the flow of air. This revolutionary new technology is called Turbulent Flow Precipitation (TFP). The TFP gives the kind of performance needed to maintain excellent Indoor Air Quality.

The Sanuvox Ultraviolet Air Purifier incorporates a UV purification process to destroy not only mold, mildew, fungus, formaldehyde and smoke - Sanuvox will also irradiate viruses and bacteria such as legionella, tuberculosis and anthrax to name a few.

The Patented Sanuvox Process
Unlike air cleaners, Sanuvox does not use conventional filters to decrease the effects of noxious odors. By utilizing a patented "J" shaped Dual Zone Mercury Vapour Ultraviolet Lamp, a Turbulator to slow and spin the air and an Aluminum Chamber to intensify the UV light, the process is able to recreate the effects of sunlight to destroy chemical and biological contaminants and neutralize odors.

Sanuvox's "J" Lamp produces UV-C and UV-V light. UV-C is short-wave germicidal radiation. This wavelength's primary uses are for the destruction of bacteria, viruses and other micro organisms which pass through the Aluminum Chamber. UV-V is used for oxidation. This is the portion of the lamp which will neutralize odors and destroy chemicals in the air. Both UV wavelengths work together to destroy the contaminants within your home, office or building.

Sanovox has a Purifier to solve virtually any Indoor Air Quality problem, and is the only manufacturer to offer a complete line of Air Purifiers. Sanuvox Purifiers are used in thousands of homes, doctors and dentists offices, hospitals, veterinary clinics, health clubs, office buildings, hotels, bars and restaurants.

Benefits
- Most effective UV Air Purification system on the market
- Irradiates bacteria, viruses and mold
- Destroys chemical and biological odors
- Airflow sensor automatically turns unit on and off
- In-duct installation or portable option
- 3 year warranty on parts and lamps

3. Humidifiers

In order to make your home as comfortable as possible, you need to add moisture to the air. Doing so reduces dry throat and skin, static shocks, keeps furniture and your home from drying out and increases energy efficiency. It's become well known that a home with moisture feels warmer than a dry home, even at a lower temperature setting.

The Aprilaire line of automatic humidifiers is the world's first computer equipped, completely automated, 'no touch' humidifier. It never needs constant manual adjustments. The advanced computer technology measures the outdoor temperature and indoor humidity over 86,000 times a day and continually adjusts your home's indoor humidity to its optimum level.

Benefits
- Eliminates parched, dry air throughout the entire home automatically
- Generates up to 50% more humidity for improved comfort, well being, preservation and energy savings than manual units
- Exclusive automated "no touch" computer operation eliminates the need to constantly make manual adjustments
- Senses changes in relative humidity instantaneously
- Built-in bypass damper means fewer parts to install

4. Indoor Air Quality Health Concerns and Needs

SOLACE Energy Centre is the HEALTHY HOME Information Centre for anyone interested in improving their Indoor Air Quality. We have recently joined forces with Sig Jantzen, a CHMC trained Indoor Air Quality inspector. He offers practical solutions for improving and maintaining the environmental health of your home and, therefore, you and your family.

"Proper ventilation is now being recognized as a key contributor to good health. Many people who suffer from allergies, asthma, chemical sensitivities and chronic fatigue are living in poorly ventilated homes, which perpetuate or worsen their health problems".

During a professional consultation, Sig educates individuals as to the hazards posed by pollutants, and suggests affordable improvements. He also recommends products, suppliers and contractors, such as SOLACE, who can further improve the quality of your home or office environment.

For home purchasers, Sig can provide an environmental assessment along with a property inspection. For those wishing to renovate, he can recommend more appropriate methods of construction types of material for avoiding toxic emissions, and creating a healthier environment.

For more information, link to Sig Jantzen's Healthy Home Inspections at www.healthyhome.bc.ca

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