If you live in a newly constructed home in Magnolia, it was in all likelihood made with energy efficiency as a priority. This means greater amounts of insulation and windows and doors with improved seals. While these advances are great for keeping your energy bills affordable, they’re not so great for your indoor air quality.

Your home comfort system needs to run with a filter. But if you have a flat filter, you won’t be getting ample filtration. This kind only gives the lowest level of protection by blocking dust from infiltrating your HVAC system.

While you can install a pleated filter or one with a higher MERV rating, it still might not be adequate filtration, especially if someone in your residence has allergies or other respiratory problems.

That’s where a whole-house air purifier can be a great solution. These systems are attached within ductwork to provide strong filtration around your home. Depending on the model you choose, you’ll be able to get rid of allergens, odors and even some viruses under certain airflow conditions.

Here are our favorite solutions from Lennox, an industry leader in air purification.

Best Air Purifiers from Lennox

1. HEPA Air Purifiers

A HEPA air purifier, like the Healthy Climate® High-Efficiency Particulate Air Filtration System, provides top-of-the-line filtration. These filters were first created to defend scientists as they made the atomic bomb. Today, they’re essential in hospitals and other medical buildings.

The Healthy Climate HEPA Filtration System features a three-step filtration process. A prefilter catches significant particles before the HEPA filter catches remaining smaller pollutants. Then, a charcoal filter eradicates odors and chemical vapors.

The PureAir™ S Air Purification System is compatible with all HVAC brands and smoothly integrates with your smart home. It reduces the three leading kinds of indoor air pollutants:

  • Airborne particles
  • Chemical odors and vapors
  • Germs and bacteria, under certain airflow conditions

This air purifier can get rid of 99.9%* of pollutants, including mold spores, pollen, dust and pet dander. It’s also effective at decreasing or destroying 90%1 of flu and cold viruses under certain airflow conditions. And, according to laboratory and field studies, it removes and eradicates approximately 50% of your home’s odors and chemical vapors within 24 hours.

The PureAir S comes with sensing features that make it uncomplicated to keep up. When used with an iComfort® S30 smart thermostat, you’ll get a notification to change the filter and UVA light.2 This home air purifier must be linked with communicating Lennox systems and the iComfort S30.

2. Media Air Cleaners

Lennox Healthy Climate® Media Air Cleaners are made in a variety of MERV ratings to work with your needs. This rating measures how capable filters are at capturing contaminants. The greater the number, the better the filtration.

The Healthy Climate Carbon Clean 16® Media Air Cleaner is great for families with allergy suffers and pets. This is a HEPA filter air purifier, as it has a MERV 16 rating for hospital-grade filtration. And it gets rid of more than 95%3 of irritating particles from your home’s air.

The Healthy Climate 13 Media Air Cleaner is great for households who want enhanced protection from viruses and bacteria. This filter removes 99% of larger particles such as dust, pollen and lint. And up to 54% of smaller particles down to 0.3 microns.4

The Healthy Climate 11 Media Air Cleaner is a an excellent air purifier for allergies and in houses with pets. It catches more than 87% of bigger particles down to 3 microns and more than 28% of finer ones down to 0.3 microns.4 It’s able to offer this powerful filtration without increasing the cost of operating your heating and cooling system.

These three media air cleaners are compatible with any brand of HVAC system. But despite that, it’s critical to realize that some of the denser ones, including MERV 16 and 13, may decrease your system’s airflow. This can increase your heating and cooling bills.

3. UV Air Purifiers

The sun’s UV rays are the reason why you get a blistering sunburn. But this kind of light has a beneficial application when installed inside your ductwork. It’s also strong enough to decrease germs, mold and fungi under certain airflow conditions.

In actuality, the Healthy Climate UV Germicidal Light can decrease the amount of airborne microorganisms by 50% in as quickly as 45 minutes.5 This light damages cell structure, which halts these microorganisms from flourishing and moving around your residence.

And this UV air purifier can also help keep your heating and cooling system clean and operating efficiently. It wipes out of germs, mold and fungi lurking in ductwork and your system itself. This UV light air purifier does all these things without developing lung-inflaming ozone.6

Breathe Better with the Assistance of Our Air Purification Pros

Your loved ones’ comfort and health is important to us at JTech Mechanical. We realize there are lots of options out there. That’s why we make it easy to partner with our indoor air quality specialists. We specialize in developing solutions that meet your needs and budget, and we’d love to hear more about your house and your air quality problems. Reach us at 281-231-8768 right away to get started.


1Based on laboratory and field studies.

2
PureAir™ S requires the iComfort® S30 and a communicating indoor unit.


3
Leading consumer magazine, January 2012. Based on the published CADR, which is the standardized measurement system to determine the cubic feet of clean air produced per minute. Particles captured range in size down to 0.3 micron. One micron = 1/25,000 of an inch in diameter.


4
Based on lab tests conducted on filters with conditions included in ASHRAE standard 52.2 for E1 and E3 size ranges.


5
Based on constant circulation of air in the home, 3,000-square-foot home with a 5-ton air handler.


6
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, “Ozone Generators that are Sold as Air Cleaners: An Assessment of Effective and Health Consequences,” August 2006.