Clean the air in your home. How I try to keep the air in our family’s home clean and safe, and why we chose AirDoctor purifiers.
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This is something that has been on my mind lately.
Air quality inside our house.
Since moving to East Texas we have discovered that my husband is allergic to a lot of the plants, trees and grasses that grow here. That is on top of his allergies to cats, mold and dust mites.
So keeping the air inside our house is a huge priority for us.
He notices his allergies coming back with a vengeance if I have not changed or vacuumed the air filters often enough, or changed the sheets weekly. It’s nice there are easy things I can do that make an obvious difference for him.
But I’ve been super impressed at the difference I’ve noticed just from adding in high quality powerful air purifiers.
Clean the air in your home
Indoor air pollution
I was surprised to learn that indoor air can be even more toxic than outdoor air. You always think of the inside of your home as a safe sanctuary.
You may think there is only a little dust. But in actuality there can be:
- mold spores
- voc’s
- pet dander
- formaldehyde
- pollen
- asbestos
- lead
- toxic chemicals from cleaners and hair spray
- mycotoxins
- endotoxins
- actinomyces
- endocrine disruptors from candles, air fresheners, etc
Why we chose airdoctor purifiers
We have been using AirDoctor air filters for a couple years now.
I had done a bunch of research on what air purifier I wanted to get, and I ended up choosing this brand. Once we budgeted some money aside we finally were able to buy one. We got their mid-size model, the airdoctor 3000 (now it’s the 3500 model).
Air purifiers work by pulling in air and trapping tiny pollutants in their filters, releasing clean air back into the room. This cycle repeats several times an hour to maintain pure and healthy air indoors.
The model 3000 that we use in our master bedroom, cycles the air in up to 638 square feet four times per hour, or every 15 minutes.
Then the model 5500 that we use in our living room / kitchen space circulates the air in 1,043 square feet four times per hour.
The AirDoctor uses both UltraHEPA filters and carbon/VOC filters.
UltraHEPA Filter
AirDoctor’s UltraHEPA filters capture the ultra-fine contaminants you can’t see like dust, pollen, mold spores, smoke, pet hair, and dander, bacteria and viruses. The HEPA standard requires that 99.97% of particles at 0.3 microns are captured. AirDoctor’s 3500 UltraHEPA filter was independently tested and proven to remove at least 99.99% of particles as small as 0.003 microns—that’s 100 times smaller than the HEPA standard!
Carbon/Gas Trap/VOC Filter
The proprietary dual-action Carbon/Gas Trap/VOC filter removes dangerous ozone, gases, odors and volatile organic compounds (VOC) like formaldehyde.
I make sure to run our purifiers on auto mode, because they will sense if the air is poor quality and turn up. I love that they can sense that and automatically adjust! If you’re going to spend the money on a purifier, you want to know it’s doing it’s job and actually filtering the air as needed. You want a purifier that is equipped with professional-grade sensors. Then also when good air quality is detected by an AirDoctor, Auto-Mode will automatically slow down the machine to save on energy—while still ensuring safe air.
Plus I also make sure to vacuum the prefilter as often as I can remember to. This helps prolong the life of the filters and helps them work more effectively.
Other ways to improve your indoor air
Besides running an air purifier, what are other ways you can keep the air in your home clean and safe?
- Keep indoor plants
- Vacuum and dust often
- Open your windows to air out the rooms (potentially not during pollen season though if you are allergic)
- Take your shoes off at the door
- Minimize carpets. This one makes me happy. I hate carpet, hate how it looks, hate the style. Give me all the hardwood floors and antique wool rugs! Thankfully our house doesn’t have any carpets, just a few rugs as needed. I just try to keep the rugs vacuumed often.
And blessings!
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