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A Furnace Filter Is More Than A Filter

January 31st, 2010 admin

Surprisingly many people think so. There more to the filter you use in your furnace or air handler that effects your indoor air quality as well as your wallet.

If your using a spun fiberglass filter that you can see through, your wasting your money. This type of filter only captures the large particles it doesn’t capture the smaller particles. Sowhat good is it really doing for the air you breathe. Honestly not much.

A filter needs to trap as much as possible to improve the air you breathe. If you have allergies, asthma, or other breathing problems this is essential to your quality of life. A cheaper filter allows the smaller particles to pass through the filter and to enter the furnace reaching the evaporator coil, the airstream, and the air you breathe. Eventually the coil can become clogged with those particles reducing air flow and providing a surface for mold to grow and thrive. Who wants to breathe that?

 If that isn’t enough, what about the cost to you for maintenance? A dirty coil reduces air flow, makes the evaporater fan work harder, and it makes out to your condenser by raising your line pressure and working your compressor harder. This all cost you more in operating cost. Not to mention the cost of removing the evaporator coil and cleaning it. This can cost anywhere from $375.00 – $550.00. Who can afford that these days? 

This isn’t to say the filter you use will prevent you from ever having to clean your coil. It will certainly help you prevent any of these problems and improve the air you breathe. You don’t have to spend a small fortune on a filter or filters to improve the air you breathe. There are many filter choices out there. You just have to make a wise choice as to what your needs are and what filter best serves you.

 A couple of filter choices available are polyester foam filters and extended surface pleated filters.

The polyester foam panel filter is a good choice they are inexpensive and do a  a better job of stopping and collecting pollutants than a fiberglass filter. They are available in a bulk roll, cut to size, with or without a tackifier and in a traditional cardboard frame.

A better choice is the extended surface surface pleated filters. They are designed with less resistance to air flow than panel filters. Thier design also extends service life and reduces maintenance cost. Many are electrostatic and bacteria resistant.

The best choice is a filter thicker than the standard 1″ filter. The problem with these filters your average air conditioning system isn’t set up for these filters. They have been used almost exclusively in commercial systems. What has been available for residential systems require a field installed filter housing. Which can be costly to install or intigrate into many applications. The advantage to these filters is longer service life (one filter last 6  to 12 months), low pressure drop, greater surface capacity to capture more particles, and electrostatic and bacteria resistant.
 
Fortunately, many manufacturers are seeing the advantage of these filters in the residential market. You can now get a 5″ pleated filter designed to fit your existing return air grille. These filters go one step farther by adding a foam a foam gasket to prevent air by-pass so you get maximum air filtration through your filter.

I hope this article informed you on the different types of filters available to you and helps your choice of filter easier.

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Probably The Best Filter You can Buy

January 27th, 2010 admin

The Best Filter for You and Your Family

The Practical Pleat Filter is probably one the best filters on the market today. It provides a large surface capacity, more efficient than a standard 1″ extended surface pleated filter, and a foam gasket to prevent air bypass.
A filter that doesn’t self-seal allows pollutants to be pulled around the filter (filter bypass) and into your ventilation system. Therefore escaping the filtering process. The particles accumulate and can allow mold, mildew and other biological contaminants to grow in your furnace or air handler. The self-sealing gasket helps prevent this.

The Practical Pleat is 30 times more efficient than a standard 1″ pleated filter at capturing small contaminants. These filters are designed to protect your heating and cooling system as much as the air you breathe.

In general the more efficient a filter is at collecting contaminants the greater the resistance to air flow. The Practical Pleat has overcome this problem by increasing surface capacity. The Practical Pleats surface capacity is 433% greater than a 1″ pleated filter and in the process reduced air resistance by 41%. The reduction in air resistance improves airflow, helps reduce energy consumption, increases air circulation, decreases maintenance, and ultimately filters life.

A standard 1″ filter needs changing every 30-60 days during use. The Practical Pleat will last 6-12 months depending on the conditions in your home or office.
You may be asking how the Practical Pleat Filter does this. Well they made the filter 5″ deep. The amazing thing is it will fit in your existing return air grille like a 1″ filter does recessing into your return air opening. So, there isn’t a need for a filter housing or any retrofitting. The only requirement is that your return opening is deep enough for the filter to recess into it. If your return air isn’t deep enough there is a 2″ Practical Pleat. 

The 2″ Practical Pleat Filter last 3-4 months depending on the conditions in your home. These filter are the best choice for you or your family. If you have allergies or asthma it is an ideal choice.
If you have any questions feel free to contact me at robert@filtersdirect2you.com

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Tips For Selecting the Most Effective Kitchen Sink Water Filter To Give You Healthy Safe Water

January 23rd, 2010 admin

The benefits of a sink water filter cannot be understated today and is important if you want to live a longer and healthier life. It is essential that the water we consume is as pure as possible and not the chemical cocktail it has become, so here are some tips to guide you to the very best today.

As we are composed of 70% water ourselves, the quality of what we drink directly affects our health and well-being and needs to be as pure as possible, making a kitchen sink water filter the perfect solution.

With recent studies highlighting the fact that we have over 2000 toxic chemicals that can cause cancer in our drinking water today including pesticides, herbicides, chlorine and lead, the right system is vital.

A study of 29 major U.S. cities by the Environmental Working Group found that all 29 cities had traces of at least one weed killer in the drinking water. The report titled “Weed Killers by the Glass” went on to say that millions of Americans are routinely exposed to one or more pesticides in a single glass of tap water.

According to the U.S. Council of Environmental Quality, “Cancer risk among people using chlorinated water is as much as 93% higher than among those whose supply does not contain it.”

With the risks so great and the solution so simple, why take the chance?

The two main types of sink water filter are reverse osmosis (RO) and carbon block filters. The RO systems fail to stop many of today’s harmful synthetic chemicals getting through as their filters are not small enough but what they do remove are vital trace minerals like calcium and magnesium.

We need these minerals to remain healthy or we are at risk of becoming mineral deficient.

The most effective type which actually chemically bonds the contaminants to the surface of the filter are activated granular carbon ones with the best employing a multi-stage process and ion exchange to ensure that 99% of all the contaminants are removed.

These will leave you with healthy safe water with all those vital minerals left in and will help you and your family maintain much better health than if you drank unfiltered water.

Visit my website today if you would like to learn more about the types of kitchen sink water filter systems that I personally recommend and use.

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