fresh air exchanger The solution to pollution is dilution Here's a common dilemma that most homeowners face: You've purchased a new home for hundreds of thousands of dollars. Inside your new home are the latest building products, including energy efficient doors and windows, thicker insulation, double weather stripping and caulking. No air, hot or cold, can infiltrate into your home, yet no air can escape it as well. In short, you live in a tightly sealed home. That which has been mandated by the federal and state government as "good" for promoting energy efficiency is "bad" for indoor air quality. Why? Because this same tightly sealed home is also trapping pollutants within your indoor environment. Chemicals like formaldehyde, household cleaners, paint, odors, smoke and other contaminants, along with many other building material byproducts, have no way of being released from your home. And the answer isn't as simple as keeping your windows or doors open to let out these unhealthy chemicals. In the 1970's, commercial buildings were subject to a similar phenomenon known as "Sick Building Syndrome". The absence of adequate ventilation in offices and other tightly sealed work venues led to a vast array of illnesses. That's when the federal government stepped in to mandate fresh air makeup in all commercial structures. But what about residential buildings? Thus far, in spite of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency studies showing that the typical home contains indoor air that is 10 times more polluted than the outdoor air, no mandatory fresh air makeup regulation exists. Here's another problem. Ever wonder why your home and its furnishings are constantly caked with dust that your housekeeper can't keep up with? It's because your home is under "negative pressure". Every time you run your heating or cooling, your air handling fan literally sucks all of the dust and filth into your conditioned space. Now, think about what happens when you open the doors to your favorite department store. You feel a gust of air coming at you, right? Nearly all department stores and many commercial buildings are "positively pressurized". That way, the merchandise and furnishings at Nordstrom and Neiman-Marcus remain fresh and clean. Can we mechanically "positively pressurize" your home? The answer is yes! As Central Air Systems believes - The Solution to Pollution is Dilution! Did you know that a simple mechanical device exists that effectively ventilates your home - exhausting these harmful pollutants and positively pressurizing your indoor environment while preserving energy efficiency? The Aprilaire Fresh Air Exchanger is unobtrusively installed in your attic or crawl space, and it provides literally a "breath of fresh air" inside your home. This device expels the stale, unhealthy air and exchanges it for fresher, cleaner outdoor air. Not only is it economical to operate (it draws the electrical equivalent of two 60-watt light bulbs), the Aprilaire Fresh Air Exchanger ties into your air handling system's ductwork, and can be controlled either remotely or through a special thermostat. If you want to protect yourself and your family's health and well being, the Aprilaire Fresh Air Exchanger offers a sensible and effective solution to neutralizing indoor pollution.