Holladay's Trusted Whole Home Air Purification Company

Why treat the air at the HVAC system

Your furnace and air conditioner already move air through every room in the house. Treating it there reaches the bedrooms, the basement and the kitchen at once. A portable unit cleans one room, and a Holladay home with a finished basement and an addition would need several of them. We install UV-C lamps near the coil and pair them with the best filter your system can handle.

In a Holladay house where an addition or finished basement shares the main furnace, one install treats the air in those rooms too. If part of the home has its own system, we tell you before quoting, so the written price covers the whole house you actually live in.

The EPA recommends a filter rated MERV 13 or higher when the system can accommodate it, replaced regularly. It also points out that HVAC filtration only works while the fan is running. We explain your thermostat's fan settings so the system filters more of the day during inversion weeks. The Utah Division of Air Quality publishes alerts on poor air days, and signing up makes it easy to know when to run the fan longer.

Ozone-free lamps, by design

The EPA warns against air cleaners that produce ozone, a lung irritant, and lists UV lights without adequate coatings among the devices that can emit it. The UV lamps we install are ozone-free. They sit inside the air handler, out of sight, so no one in the house looks at the light.

We place the lamps where they reach the coil and drain pan, and we show you how to tell when one needs replacing. A lamp that has quietly burned out does nothing, so knowing its age matters.

What purification can and can't do

Purification is one part of cleaner indoor air, not all of it. The EPA's guidance puts source control and ventilation first, with filtration as a supplement. Filters and UV won't fix mold either. If your Holladay basement smells musty, the moisture source has to be found and corrected, and we can inspect for that during the same visit.

What a whole-home system does well is capture more of the dust, pollen and fine particles circulating through the ducts. UV-C aimed at the coil helps keep that damp surface cleaner, so the system isn't blowing air across growth all summer. You get the same treatment in every room without moving machines around or buying separate filters for each one.

Planning around Holladay's seasons

• Winter: inversions keep houses sealed, so run the fan longer and check the filter monthly.
• Spring: cottonwood and tree pollen peak, so swap the filter once the fluff has dropped.
• Summer: air conditioning keeps the coil wet, which is where UV-C earns its place.
• Fall: leaf cleanup and yard dust drift indoors, and it is a good time to have the system looked at before heating season.

Holladay has three ZIP codes, 84117, 84121 and 84124, and many neighborhoods within them have homes old enough to have had two or three furnaces. We look at what you have now and fit the purification to it, rather than selling a one-size package.