How To Choose An A/C Air Filter When You Have Pets
Pet parents are a different breed. Yes, we know what we’re saying! If you have pets and if you live in an area of the country like Englewood, Florida that may be indoors in air-conditioned air for many months of the year you need to assure you’re breathing clean air. How to choose an A/C air filter when you have pets is something the air conditioning professionals from Symbiont Air Conditioning get asked all the time.
Indoor air quality is crucial for anyone, but especially for those with breathing issues or asthma. You certainly don’t want to be breathing air that is of poor quality or that is filled with dander. To help address that and to address air quality, you will want to choose the best, highest quality air conditioner air filter that you can and that is suitable for the HVAC unit you have in your home or office.
If you’re like most families, you have a pet — dog, cat, hamster, bunny, ferret, bird — and those pets are a source of dander, hair and feathers! You can’t stop your pet from shedding, but you can certainly better clean the air you’re breathing.
How To Choose An A/C Air Filter When You Have Pets
How do pet parents/pet owners address pet hair, feathers and dander? Here are a few ways:
- Vacuuming
- Dusting the furniture
- Washing slip covers on the couches
- Brushing the dogs and cats
- Cleaning the feathers out of the bird cage
- And more!
Have you wondered, though how the air filter in your air conditioning unit can impact the safety and quality of the air you breathe? Even if you haven’t the air conditioning professionals from Symbiont Air Conditioning in Englewood, Florida think of it every day.
You can sweep and vacuum and dust, but there will still be particles floating in the air.
Look for an air filter that goes into the air conditioning unit that will remove dust and dander from the air so you aren’t breathing it in. When you have pets in the house, you may need to replace the filter in the A/C unit more often than those without pets or even more often than stated on the air filter itself.
Let us know how many pets you have and we will work with you to get the best filter for your needs and let you know how often the filter should be changed — based on the number of pets in the house. Even if you’re using an air filter that is specifically designed for homes with pets, they may still get clogged more frequently and need to be changed more often.
Here are options for filter choices:
- Low price filters with low MERV ratings. The MERV rating is the indicator of how effective the air filter is at capturing microscopic particles and keeping them from getting back into the air you breath.
- Electronic air filters use static electricity to attract and trap pet hair and other particles in the air. They are effective, but pricing. They don’t filter out bacteria or other pollutants, but could be an ideal option if you have allergies.
- HEPA air filters offer filters specifically designed for homes with pets. A HEPA (high efficiency particulate air filter) traps bacteria, mold and other in-house pollutants.
Give us a call and we can do an inspection of your HVAC unit and assure you have the best filter for your family’s needs.
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