Allergy Season Relief: Improve Your Indoor Air Quality with Your HVAC System
Just when the weather in New Jersey gets warm enough to enjoy being outside, the pollen makes many of us miserable. If you or any of your family members have seasonal allergies, you know how difficult it can be to enjoy spring!
Instead, we stay indoors to avoid the uncomfortable sneezing, itchy eyes and runny noses. Surprisingly, though, the air inside your home can be as much as 100 times as polluted* as the air outside! Pollen, dust, mold spores and animal allergens can get trapped in your home with nowhere to go. And opening the windows during allergy season only makes it worse.
Here are some of our best tips for keeping your home’s air healthy and weathering allergy season.
How Air Conditioning Can Provide Allergy Relief
Staying indoors with the windows closed and the air conditioning running can certainly help reduce your allergy symptoms. In fact, spring allergies are another reason why it is especially important to get an annual spring AC tune-up, so that your system runs cleanly and efficiently. In our comprehensive tune-up, we clean and inspect your system, including the air filters.
Installing a high-efficiency air filter in your HVAC system can capture fine particles like pollen, dust, and pet dander.
Your AC will also lower the humidity, which can help ease allergy symptoms. As the air conditioning runs, it removes moisture from the air, removing water-soluble pollutants and other irritants at the same time.
Getting your ductwork cleaned professionally can help avoid circulating pollen or dust particles from months or years past.
Get Allergy Relief with an Air Purification System
For the most comprehensive relief, install an air purification system in your existing HVAC system that purifies your home by safely ionizing your circulating air. Not only will the system reduce the pollen, but it will also kill up to 99% of bacteria, mold, and viruses and reduce airborne particulates by 99%. And it offers year-round protection from other pollutants, mold, smoke, animal odors, dander and dust. Combined with a high-efficiency air filter, an air purification system provides the highest level of relief to allergy sufferers.
At Meyer & Depew, we have been helping homes stay comfortable for over 70 years, including assessing and improving indoor air quality. Installing an air purification system has helped many of our clients improve their indoor air quality and relieve allergy and asthma symptoms. The systems can be easily installed in any duct air conditioning/heating system, making it the smart choice for many New Jersey residents.
Like reliable heating and cooling, air quality is one more component of a comfortable home. Allergy season comes every year, and an air purification system could be your best defense against all the bothersome symptoms. Even better, improving indoor air quality all year long will make your home a healthy environment where your family and friends can feel their best.