8 Reasons to Invest in an Air Purifier for the Holiday Season
Indoor comfort and indoor aesthetics are never more important than during the holiday season. After all, this is when you’ll be opening your San Antonio, TX home to guests, showing off your culinary skills, and spending countless hours relaxing with your loved ones. However, for the sake of everyone’s health, it’s important to remember that indoor air quality (IAQ) is important too. Thus, one of the best ways to ensure that things go smoothly is by investing in an air purifier. Here are eight reasons why.
1. Air Purifiers Eliminate Unpleasant Odors Without Compromising Your IAQ
Before you pull out an aerosol can of room freshening spray, light a scented candle, or freshen things up with a fragrant plug-in, it’s important to consider how these products affect your health. Scented candles add soot, smoke, and many other contaminants to the indoor air. Room freshening sprays and plug-ins are comprised of harmful chemicals. Although you might have a better-smelling living environment when you use them, this doesn’t mean that you’ll breathe any easier.
Not only are store-bought air fresheners and scented candles known for adding airborne contaminants to living spaces, but many of these products are also believed to be hormone disruptors. If true, this means that using them in large quantities and for extended periods of time may expedite the onset of menopause, andropause, and various reproductive health issues. It’s certainly not worth the risk.
Air purification technologies, on the other hand, eliminate powerful, unpleasant odors without adding anything harmful to your home. These systems filter out unwanted particulates so that your indoor air smells noticeably cleaner and fresher. This is far preferable to masking smoke odors, pet odors, and cooking odors with either real or artificial aromas.
2. Clear Out Smoke Fast
Even professional chefs are known to burn a dish or two when preparing massive feasts. If you’re juggling turkey, ham, dressing, potatoes, and more, there’s a very high likelihood that something will get scorched. Even if you don’t forget that you’ve got something under the broiler, there’s always the possibility that meat drippings, oil, or butter will make their way down to the oven bottom. Most households set their smoke detectors off at least once during their holiday cooking. Although there might never be a real risk of fire, both smoke and smoke odors can make your indoor air downright unhealthy.
Air purifiers eliminate smoke and smoke odors within a nominal amount of time. This means that you can clear out the pungent stink of burnt bread long before your dinner guests actually arrive.
3. Meet the IAQ Requirements of All Your Guests
Welcoming people into your home for the holiday season presents the challenge of meeting everyone’s preferences and needs. Like most people, you’ve probably got one or more friends or family members who suffer from severe asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), or allergies. Although your IAQ may be sufficient for keeping everyone in your own household happy, certain particulates that are floating through your indoor air could be enough to trigger or exacerbate these conditions in others. Air purification will raise your IAQ so that everyone can enjoy the festivities without wheezing, coughing, sneezing, or congestion.
4. Keep Warm Air Trapped Inside
Whether battling smoke, foul odors, or stale, stagnant air, you might be tempted to throw your windows or doors open wide. Doing so is guaranteed to let in the cold air. It also provides the perfect opportunity for cats, dogs, and small children to escape.
Fortunately, you don’t have to lower the temperature in your living space to freshen things up. You can keep warm air trapped inside, limit the demands on your heating system, and maintain a cozy, welcoming space while still improving your IAQ. Whole-house air purification systems can be seamlessly integrated with your HVAC equipment to eradicate airborne contaminants without diminishing anyone’s comfort.
5. Avoid Pet Problems
You want your guests to feel right at home when coming over for your holiday celebrations. However, your pets should feel right at home too. If you have friends or family members with cat or dog allergies, your air purifier will constantly work to eliminate pet hair, pet dander, and other pet-related allergens. This way, your canine and feline companions can remain inside without exacerbating anyone’s ailments. Best of all, with your air purifier on, you won’t have to contend with annoying pet odors.
6. Air Purifiers Can Limit the Transmission of Illness
Air purification systems aren’t capable of preventing illness. However, they can and do limit its transmission. These systems remove harmful pathogens from the indoor air, including micro-fine particulates from sneezes. They reduce the number of bacteria, viruses, and other germs that are floating around your home. Having one of these systems in place will give you greater peace of mind this holiday season as you entertain guests. For residents who are constantly benefiting from your improved IAQ, your air purifier can also lead to more robust immune system functioning.
7. Limit the Strain on Your HVAC System
Regularly changing your HVAC air filters is one of the best and easiest things that you can do to protect your IAQ. It’s also one of the best things that you can do to protect your home heating and cooling equipment. HVAC equipment manufacturers produce their standard air filters with the primary goal of keeping the sensitive interior components of heaters and air conditioners from being coated in dust, dirt, lint, and countless other particulates. As such, when you let your HVAC air filter become excessively dirty, you aren’t just compromising your health. You’re compromising the functionality and efficiency of your entire HVAC system too.
Advanced air filters and air purification technologies take this protection a step further. A whole-house air purifier will remove particulates that your HVAC air filter cannot catch. This means that there will be even fewer build-ups inside your heating and cooling system. During the holidays, when you’re heavily reliant upon your heater for comfort and warmth, air purification can limit the amount of stress on the system.
8. Enjoy Improved Indoor Air Quality Year-Round
Just as the holiday season is a time for entertaining, it’s also the time of year when you’re often spending much of your effort, energy, and money to do something truly wonderful for others. As you’re busy buying and wrapping presents, cooking decadent holiday meals and desserts, and creating a clean, comfortable space for all of your friends and family members, it’s also a good idea to do something good for you.
A whole-house air purifier is a gift that keeps on giving. Sure, you’ll have an easier time keeping your home fresh-smelling, smoke-free, and easy to breathe in, but you’ll also sleep deeper, more restfully, and get far more joy out of your living space overall. Buying an air purifier this holiday season is a great way to increase the amount of pleasure that simply being in your home provides.
At Beyer Air Conditioning & Heating, we’re committed to helping the residents of San Antonio protect and improve their IAQs. We offer advanced indoor air quality services. We also provide sheet metal, VRF systems, and heating and cooling installation, repair, and maintenance services. If you’re ready to experience the benefits of air purification, get in touch with Beyer Air Conditioning & Heating today.
