A/C Maintenance
By: Amanda Campbell
Updated: August 12, 2010
Airborne pollutants like pollen, dust, pet hair, dander, dust mites, tobacco smoke, and spores can damage your draperies, upholstery, and even your furnace and air conditioning equipment
. And, as allergy sufferers know, even traces can trigger miserable reactions. Most homes use ordinary throwaway furnace filters to clean the air, capturing only about 5-15% of polluting particles.
Introduced in 1973, the Space-Gard High Efficiency Air Cleaner is a silent, low-maintenance, inexpensive air filtration system. It utilizes a simple, remarkably effective HEPA-type filtering media that actually improves its particulate-capturing capability the longer it is used. For particles larger than five microns, efficiency reaches 99%. Even the smallest particles - as small as one micron - can be filtered out at 95% effectiveness. The high-density filter unit is attached to your existing heating or cooling system, where it seizes pollutants from conditioned air before it is distributed to the rooms of your home.
Two models of Space-Gard are available, depending on your furnace type. The new Model 2400 is more compact, great for use in platform or closet installations and with today's short furnaces. The Model 2200 is easily adaptable to up flow or horizontal duct configurations.
Since Space-Gard has no moving parts, it is virtually maintenance-free, and it has a lifetime limited warranty.
Space-Gard Benefits:
* Reaches 99% efficiency on particles 5 microns or larger.
* 60% average efficiency on all particles.
* Provides allergy relief. Ask your doctor.
* Lifetime Limited Warranty.
* Filtering media lasts one to two years.
* Protects heating and cooling equipment.
* Absolutely silent operation.
* Requires no service calls.
* Uses no electricity.
* Produces no ozone.

