Indoor Air Quality And You

Have you ever stopped to consider the air that circulates inside your home? It travels from your furnace, through your ductwork, into your home’s air, and back through the cold air return system. On its journey, it accumulates all kinds of nasty stuff: dust, hair, allergens, pet dander, mold spores, you name it. If it’s airborne, it will eventually collect in your ductwork. From there, it will get blown out into your home, making a dusty, dirty mess of your indoor air (you know, the stuff you breathe). Not cool!

The Benefits of Professional Air Duct Cleaning

• Purify Your Indoor Air: Getting rid of all the nasty particulate in your duct-work will help clean up the air inside your home. Purifox’s comprehensive cleaning system ensures every square inch of your duct-work is thoroughly cleaned, helping you breathe easy in your own home.
• Reduce Allergies: While the seasons determine the severity of most allergy issues, homes with congested ventilation can cause allergic reactions year round. Contaminants such as dust, mold spores, pet dander and dirt accumulate in your air ducts over time and are blown around into various rooms in your house, preventing the allergy sufferers in your home from ever experiencing total relief.
• Less Dusting: Getting rid of the dust in your indoor air means less dust on your furniture/pictures/counters/everywhere! Who wouldn’t want to cut down on the tiresome chore of dusting?
• Improve Furnace Efficiency: Removing the dust, dirt, and debris from your HVAC system will help your furnace run better! Instead of heating the mess inside the vents, the heat generated by the furnace is more easily transferred through the ducts into your home’s air. As any homeowner will tell you, running a furnace is expensive! Don’t make your furnace work any harder than it needs to.

All air duct cleaning companies are not created equal! It can be difficult to sift through the options available, which is why Purifox is committed to giving you the best air duct cleaning possible. Over the past years, we’ve worked hard to become air duct cleaning experts, with satisfied customers throughout ours states Virginia, Maryland and Washington D.C.

Reasons Why You Should Choose Purifox:

• The process: Purifox uses only the best cleaning method and equipment possible. Our system is the most powerful cleaning you can get for your air ducts, able to clean every square inch of your ductwork system. We use a push-pull method, which ensures none of the dust or debris inside your vents gets blown back into your home.
• The Expertise: We’ve been cleaning air ducts for over 9 years, so there’s nothing we haven’t seen. Our certified technicians have the experience to handle any HVAC system they come across, making sure you get the most effective and thorough cleaning possible.
• NADCA Certified: We have NADCA (National Air Duct Cleaners Association)-certified technicians ready to give your air ducts the most comprehensive cleaning available. NADCA professionals must follow a higher standard of cleaning and must comply with the NADCA Code of Ethics.
• Satisfaction Guarantee: Every service we provide, air ducts included, comes with our 100% Customer Satisfaction Guarantee. We’ll do everything in our power to make sure you know you received the best cleaning possible because we stand behind our work. If you’re not happy, then we’re not happy!
• The Service Experience: Our entire Purifox’s team is committed to providing our customers with exceptional service, start to finish. They will treat your home like their own, taking all necessary safety precautions to protect your home during cleaning. When you choose Purifox, you can expect to be delighted! We are committed to providing you with an enjoyable, “Simple & Quick” service experience; we want to make you a Modernistic customer for life!

Purifox Air Duct Cleaning

The Power Vacuum and Air Sweep Method

Purifox uses the power vacuum and air sweep air duct cleaning method in our residential air duct cleaning, which is the most powerful and effective approach in the industry.
The power vacuum and air sweep method uses a powerful large-diameter vacuum to create negative pressure in your air duct system that sucks out debris.

1. First, we seal your air duct system and attach the power vacuum.
2. Next, our NADCA-certified technicians force dirt, dust, and other contaminants into the main trunk line by applying blasts of compressed air into the vents.
3. After all forced air and return air runs are cleaned, the technicians agitate the ductwork to loosen any remaining contaminants and send them toward the vacuum.
4. Finally, our crew applies a rotary brush, removing the last, most stubborn contaminants.
5. Call Modernistic today or use our quick quote form to set up your residential air duct cleaning appointment so you can experience the benefits of a Power Vacuum and Air Sweep clean!

Improving Indoor Air Quality

A dirty ventilation system in your home can lead to everything from allergic reactions to house fires, but regular professional air duct cleaning from Modernistic can leave your house cleaner, healthier, and safer.
Professional cleaning is the easiest way to ensure your home’s heating, ventilation, and cooling system (HVAC) is properly maintained.
Dirt and dust aren’t the only contaminants that accumulate over time in your vents. Pollen, pet hair, pet dander, dead insects, and rodent feces are other contaminants found in home air ducts that can cause problems, such as increasing the risk of asthma and allergy attacks in your house.

Debris from construction and renovations also collects in your home’s heating and cooling system.

1. Tips For Improving Indoor Air Quality.
2. Keep your doors and windows closed as often as possible.
3. Use high quality air filters and replace them as instructed.
4. Do not smoke indoors.
5. Maintain healthy air with proper air duct maintenance.
6. EPA Definitions of Poor Air Quality.
7. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) listed poor indoor air quality as one of the five biggest environmental risks to public health. According to the EPA, 90% of common colds are caught while indoors, breathing indoor air. Indoor air quality is believed to be up to 70 times more polluted than outdoor air.

A yearly professional cleaning can help prevent the spread of these harmful pollutants

1. Indoor air can often be two to five times more polluted than outdoor air. Having your air ducts cleaned helps to improve indoor air quality.
2. Cleaning your air ducts and removing irritants that infiltrate your home can help subside common symptoms of asthma and allergies.
3. Removing dirt that’s built up in your system over the course of 5+ years will help you maintain a cleaner home. Clean ducts mean less dirt that circulates in your home and in your air.
4. Dirt buildup and other contaminants in your vents can restrict airflow. This causes your unit to work less effectively and not properly blow out hot or cold air as you need it to.
5. By having a clean HVAC system, your improved energy efficiency can also translate to lower utility bills and can help extend the life of your system by reducing wear and tear.

Air duct cleaning costs will fluctuate depending on the number of furnaces and vents in your home. However, it will typically cost $500 or more. Beware of companies who offer eye-catching low prices as these services most likely do not provide the proper, whole-home cleaning needed to be effective. In fact, “failure to clean all components of the system can result in recontamination of the entire system” and minimize the benefits of cleaning (National Air Duct Cleaners Association). Our air duct services include a whole-system cleaning powered by ourS vacuums and air duct cleaning specialists trained to NADCA standards.

You can find an air duct cleaner near you on our website by entering your zip code and checking the service offerings for your local PURIFOX LLC. Or, give us a call at +1 (571) 244-2603 and our customer service advisors will help you.

Surprisingly enough, yes. Construction debris is one of the most common types of contamination that we find in air duct systems. Fine particulates, such as drywall dust or sawdust, as well as other materials, can make their way into your system when the construction crews are cleaning up. The only way to thoroughly remove all of these pollutants from your system is through professional air duct cleaning.

Air Duct Sanitizing – What is it and What Does it Do?

Purifox’s Air Duct Sanitizing Service utilizes a product called Sporicidin. It is a disinfectant as well as a deodorizer that kills bacteria, viruses, fungus, mold, and mildew, in addition to eliminating odors. A Sporicidin treatment will inhibit the accumulation and growth of any contaminants for up to 6 months after the application.

Who Needs It?

Anybody with health concerns triggered by any of the above listed items, e.g. anyone with asthma allergies or weak immune systems.
Anyone who has had water damage.
Anyone trying to eliminate foul odors.
Anyone who has had an animal in their system.

How is it Applied?

The product is fogged directly into the duct system. We utilize a special fogger system that provides just the right amount of mist to coat the interior of your entire duct system.

Will There Be Blowback in the Home?

No. The treatment is a liquid and is applied inside of the duct work.

Is it Safe? Do I Need to Leave My House?

Yes, it is safe. No, you don’t need to leave your home. The product we use has many different applications; it is commonly used in hospitals to clean surfaces such as counter tops.

How Do You Reach All the Areas of the Ductwork?

The hose from the fogger is inserted into the main lines of the ductwork and moved through the lines until all surfaces of the duct lines are coated.

How Often Does It Need to be Done?

Only as necessary, on a case by case basis. Sanitizing is not necessary for every customer, just those instances stated in the “who needs it?” section above. It only needs to be done once per instance, say a flood, and will not need to be treated again unless another instance occurs. There are no negative effects from sanitizing and it can be done for whoever would like the treatment for peace of mind.

What’s the Difference Between the Sanitizing Service and the Cleaning Service?

Our air duct cleaning service removes contaminates from the system with mechanical agitation through whipping and vacuuming, which removes contaminants from the system using only air. Our air duct sanitization treatment is applied after a cleaning to sanitize the duct system.