Want to improve the quality of the air you breathe?
Then you should probably consider adding ultraviolet (UV) lights to your indoor air quality system.
To the uninitiated, using UV light to clean the air might seem to be a strange arrangement. How can UV rays affect the air you breathe?
The answer is that UV lights don’t impact the air at all; it is what they do to the particles in the air that’s important.
The indoor air in Northern Virginia often contains relatively high numbers of bacteria, viruses and other microorganisms. Indoor air is more hospitable to germs, just as it is more hospitable to humans. The indoor environment keeps the air at an ideal temperature year-round, and keeps micro-organisms in close contact with human hosts to feed on. It also keeps them out of the sunlight, and away from UV rays.
You see, UV light is dangerous to single-celled organisms. The right frequency of UV light, in a high enough concentration, kills germs. By installing UV lights within your indoor air system, the air is exposed to enough of these UV rays to be lethal to whatever airborne germs are present. Fewer germs in the air leads to fewer illnesses and other respiratory problems.
Since UV lights do not actually remove the now-dead microorganisms (or other particles like dust and pollen) from the air, they only play one role in your indoor air quality strategy. You will want to combine a UV light source with the right air filter to have a fully effective indoor air quality system. The experts at the federal CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) have stated that having a UV light source combined with a quality air filter installed within your HVAC system is the best available method of removing biological contaminants from your indoor air.
To learn more about UV lights for use in your Northern Virginia home or business, contact us at Jones-Rogers, Inc. We have a number of comprehensive indoor air purification systems available, to suit any need. We would be happy to answer your questions, so call us today.
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Jones-Rogers, Inc. services Northern Virginia.
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