It’s summertime and the living is easy, except when it comes to the high cost of cooling your home day after day after day. At FiltersFast.com, we have a few tips and tricks to help you lower your monthly energy bill! Making sure your outside HVAC unit is working efficiently is paramount when it comes to lowering the cost of cooling your home. If you can’t remember the … [Read more...] about Don’t Let High A/C Bills Ruin Your Summer
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Enter the Clean Air Zone!
Politicians and lay people alike both talk and argue about the effects of the environment on Americans. Clean air and clean living have become trendy issues in the past decade. Green homes, recycling, and hybrid cars are just a few of the ways that people can help make our air a little bit cleaner. With harsh effects of polluted air such asthma and other respiratory problems, … [Read more...] about Enter the Clean Air Zone!
Is Your Building Sick?
Sick building syndrome or SBS refers to situations where "building occupants experience acute health and comfort effects that appear to be linked to time spent in a building, but no specific illness or cause can be identified," according to the EPA’s Indoor Air Quality website. This can occur either in a specific room or area, or throughout the building. Symptoms can … [Read more...] about Is Your Building Sick?
Greenguard School IAQ Tour
Without the proper precaution, schools can be a breeding ground for illness among the millions of children that attend each year. It is perhaps with this in mind that Greenguard Environmental Institute recently launched an interactive school indoor air quality tour on its website. The tour takes place inside a graphic representation of a school with cartoon-esque teacher and … [Read more...] about Greenguard School IAQ Tour
UV Air Treatment an effective method of combatting the flu, H1N1 (Swine Flu) and other bacteria and viruses
It has long been known that ultraviolet (UV) light used at sufficiently short wavelengths can break down microorganisms and render them sterile and unable to reproduce. It is a fact that has contributed to the widespread use of UV technology over the years for germicidal irradiation and sterilization applications. One area where UV light-based technologies are being used … [Read more...] about UV Air Treatment an effective method of combatting the flu, H1N1 (Swine Flu) and other bacteria and viruses