CLEAN CARPET AND INDOOR AIR QUALITY
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Carpet plays in important and healthful role in filtering the air indoors. It traps and holds soil, dust and allergens. The vertical pile of carpet traps and holds many times its weight in small particles, including dust and allergens that enter the indoor environment and descend onto it from above. Substantial research suggests that carpet does not release these elements back into the air. However, just as it is important to clean or replace a furnace or HVAC filter, it’s important to routinely clean carpets.
HEPA FILTER
What is HEPA filter?
HEPA filters are designed to meet exact specifications in high efficiency commercial or industrial applications. These filters are used where a high degree of cleanliness is required and contaminants must be removed to protect health, products and building interiors. These filters are ideal in a variety of applications including:
hospitals
manufacturing plants
microelectronic component assembly
negative air machines
food processing environments.
HEPA (High Efficiency Particle Arresting) filters are the most efficient medium for filtering micron size particles from the air you breathe. A true HEPA filter must capture 99.97% of contaminants 0.3 microns in size. Particles this size are invisible to the naked eye but can be harmful when inhaled. Common allergens that fall into this category include pet allergens, dust mite allergens, mould spores, and pollen.
Household cleaning agents, personal care products, pesticides and paint products are also indoor pollutants. Maintaining cleaner air in your indoor environment reduces allergic reactions and should improve your overall health. The chance of having an allergic reaction to any of the above particles can be reduced by maintaining clean air in your living and work environments.
Why would you need your carpets dry extracted with HEPA filter?
We are all becoming more aware of the negative impact of ‘dirty air’ on our health. Air Pollution not only triggers allergies and asthma attacks but can cause serious problems for people with heart, lung, and many other medical conditions. Poor air is especially harmful to the very young and very old. Unfortunately, bad air is not just an outdoor problem. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, indoor air is 5 to 10 times more polluted than the air outdoors. Fortunately, we can improve the quality of our indoor air with a regular carpet dry extraction.
You can’t control the air outside, but you can take some simple steps to create a healthier and more natural environment where you spend the greatest amount of time, your own home.
Common allergens “hiding” in the home environment include:
Dust mites: Microscopic arachnids found anywhere there is dust. Just one gram of dust can contain anywhere from 100 to 500 dust mites.
Pet Dander: Dander is small scales of skin that animals shed.
Mould Spores: Microscopic fungal “seeds” that thrive in damp areas of the home, such as the basement, kitchen and bathroom. Carpet and upholstery dust harbours millions of fungal spores.
Pollen: Microscopic reproductive components of flowering plants and trees. They enter the home from outdoors and are a common component of house dust.
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Create to the greatest possible extent, an allergen-free environment today!
Our homes and the buildings we work in block out nature’s air cleaning agents and trap pollution inside, which is where we often spend up to 90% of our time. These pollutants and allergens can lead directly to illness.
The most frequent allergic cause of respiratory illnesses are plant pollen and spores, house dust, animal hair and mould spores. These cause misery to a large proportion of us but there seems to be little that can be done to prevent them, until now.
DUST MITES - One of the causes of these allergies can be found everywhere. Mites live off human skin flakes.
MOULD SPORES - Mould Spores – One of the most significant causes of allergic diseases indoors. Moulds are found all around the house; complaints include colds, coughs and sneezing attacks.
PET ALLERGENS - Animal Hair – Almost one in three families keep pets and cats live in nearly half of the households. Usually substances from the skin and salivary glands, which stick to the hairs, cause the allergy.
PLANT POLLEN & SPORES - Plant Pollen & Spores – Pollen is the cause of 86% of allergic reactions. From February to October the pollen from grass, trees and herbs causes problems and misery to many people in the form of hay fever.
| USING OUR SYSTEM | ONE CLEAN REDUCES | Mould Spores by 85% | Dust Mites by 78% | Cat Allergen by 85% | Dust Mite Allergen by 75% |
