Blog Category: Air Filters

HVAC professionals in Englewood, Florida and other states have been deemed essential businesses. This means the air conditioning professionals from Symbiont Air Conditioning are there to assist you in this time of shut-downs, quarantine and fears about #coronavirus. We have been asked many times how HVAC pros can address coronavirus concerns and because we have fielded that question so frequently, we have put this article together to help allay concerns. 

We are still manning our office and we are taking all recommended precautions as put forth by the CDC when we pay a service visit. Please call if you have any questions about your air conditioner and whether it needs a maintenance and service visit to put your mind at ease about the virus and its potential impacts on your indoor air. 

How HVAC Pros Can Address Coronavirus Concerns

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Here at Symbiont Service Corp, we’ve taken all necessary precautions to ensure the safety of our clients and employees during this time. We’re wearing masks, gloves, washing hands often, sanitizing, and practicing social distancing. We’re also helping some clients better purify the air and neutralize the viruses in their homes through the installation of a Whole House Air Purification System, which we’ll show you all about today.

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You may be wondering, what does how to have a pet-friendly home have to do with geothermal energy or air conditioning… it matters because our pets are part of our family. When we share our lives with our pets, we may need to make accommodations for them in their living space and in our HVAC unit and the way in which we filter our home’s air. 

The geothermal professionals from Symbiont Service in Englewood, Florida know that understanding their customers and the way in which they live (and work) is important to helping assure they are breathing in the cleanest, purest air possible. Heating and cooling the home also relies on clean air filters and furnace filters and those who share their lives with pets have to contend with pet dander and hair and that may mean more frequent geothermal and HVAC unit maintenance and service visits.

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Aachoo! Is it indoor air allergies? Are you coming down with a cold or the flu? Is your indoor air causing you to cough and sneeze or even have itchy, dry skin? There are many ways in which to clean and purify the air you breath but there are benefits of UV lighting air purification that you may not have been aware of.

If you have an indoor air purification system and are fed up with how it detracts from your home decor and how noisy it is, you may want to consider a switch to a UV lighting air purification system.

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Summer is upon us in Florida. You may be spending more time out-of-doors and in the swimming pool, but you will also be indoors for a large portion of the time — whether at work or in your home enjoying the air conditioning when it gets too hot or humid. Is your home adequately ventilated? This is a question many of our customers wonder about when we meet with them to discuss geothermal energy.

Adequate home ventilation is a must as indoor air pollution can make you feel as though you’re fighting a cold, coughing and sneezing.

Is Your Home Adequately Ventilated?

What is home ventilation?

Indoor air professionals explain home ventilation is defined as “the exchange of stale indoor air with potentially fresher outdoor air.”

Why is home ventilation important?

1. Clean indoor air is air that has had pollutants and contaminants removed. The contaminants that can get into your home include: radon gas, formaldehyde, carbon monoxide, dust mites, organic pollutants, dust and viruses.
2. Proper home ventilation will make it easier for the homeowner to keep indoor humidity levels at optimal ranges. If you use a humidifier or a dehumidifier you will want to keep your indoor humidity levels between 30-60%. If you have low humidity you will have static electricity and respiratory discomfort; high humidity can lead to the growth of mold.
3. When your home is properly ventilated you may see lower utility bills. Open your windows and circulate the air with fans and air circulators as a way to clean the air and more efficiently cool your home without running the air conditioner. Cross breezes are an ideal way to cool your home.

How can you best ventilate your home? 

1. As mentioned, opening the windows and running fans to create a cross breeze. This is an effective way to ventilate a home.
2. If you have “problem areas” in the home you can use spot ventilation. This is a method of focusing on a particular area in the home — the kitchen, the basement or an entire floor. To do this you will use exhaust fans for spot ventilation — think of your stove exhaust fan as an example of spot ventilation.
3. Use whole house ventilation to promote the exchange of indoor and outdoor air. To effectively do this you will work with an indoor air professional who will use strategically placed fans and ductwork that has been installed in a way to promote the air exchange.

Is your home properly ventilated?

If you don’t know or if you want to have a test to see how well ventilated it is, give us a call. We can install whole house ventilation systems in your Florida home. Contact us at Symbiont Service Corp. We’ve been serving Florida Suncoast homeowners since the early 1980s.

Our goal is to help educate our customers about energy and home comfort issues (specific to HVAC systems).  For more information about home ventilation and other HVAC topics, download our free Home Comfort Resource guide.

Symbiont Service Corp. serves Englewood, Florida and the surrounding areas. Visit our website to see our special offers and get started today!

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Though it’s one of the simplest ways for Suncoast homeowners to improve home comfort and efficiency, changing the HVAC filter is often overlooked. It may seem like a small detail, but you may be surprised to learn how much of an impact these filters have on your heating and cooling systems. Here are three reasons why changing the HVAC filters should take precedence.

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Staying indoors may not be the best strategy for avoiding airborne organic allergens and microorganisms. In fact, the Environmental Protection Agency reports that indoor air quality may be many times more polluted than the great outdoors. It’s not hard to believe. Homeowners have spent the last few decades making their homes airtight and energy efficient. But those lower utility costs came with a downside: Well-sealed homes also accumulate dust and other contaminants, exposing residents to concentrated doses with every breath.

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When choosing a replacement air filter for your heating and cooling system, there is one essential thing you need to check: MERV (minimum efficiency reporting value). MERV measures overall air filter efficiency, with rating numbers from 1 to 16. The higher the MERV number, the more airborne matter the filter will trap.

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There’s probably no more important part of air conditioners than the air filter. A filter protects the air handler from airborne particles in your home and has an impact on the life of outdoor compressor, as well. Dirt is a contributing factor to air conditioning failure and one that’s completely avoidable with routine filter maintenance. Even window and portable air conditioners perform inadequately over if the filters get too dirty.  

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It may be winter in Florida, but that doesn’t mean your air filter should be off duty. Indoor air quality is a year-round concern, and your air filters are your first line of defense in the fight.

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