• The neurological system.
• The circulatory system.
• The skin.
• The reproductive system.
• The visual system.
• Allergies, allergic reactions and other complications.

It’s therefore imperative that you get rid of any mold in your home as soon as possible. Mold requires high humidity and dampness to grow, so keeping your house dry and maintaining proper indoor air quality can prevent mold growth. UV lights can also help get rid of mold and prevent its growth.

UV lights provide protection against both mold and other microorganisms. It does so by interfering with their DNA, preventing them from reproducing. This is because while microorganisms have developed defenses against most other electromagnetic waves, they haven’t done so for UV light, which is mostly filtered by the Earth’s atmosphere.

UV lights should be placed in areas that aren’t accessed frequently, such as within the HVAC system in your home, your basement and your attic. This ensures mold growth is prevented in areas where it’s more apt to colonize. To get rid of mold in your house using UV lights, you should either hire a professional or ensure you’re doing it properly, as UV light can cause eye damage. Here’s how it should be done:

• Clean mold stains using bleach and warm water.
• Wear UV-opaque glasses to protect your eyes.
• Place a UV light about a foot away from the cleaned mold stain.
• Turn off other lights in the room and leave the UV light on for about two hours.
• Repeat these steps for other mold stains and as required.

For more information regarding mold removal and indoor air quality in Warren, Sterling Heights and other areas we serve, contact Aladdin Heating & Cooling.

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

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UV lights can be used to control contaminants which lurk in your central heating and cooling system. The damp, dark areas in your duct work and near your coil can become a perfect breeding ground for contaminants, as these conditions can promote growth. When contaminants are present in your indoor air, they can aggravate health conditions such as asthma, allergies, COPD, and other respiratory diseases. These contaminants include:

• Fungus
• Mildew
• Mold
• Germs
• Viruses

Your UV lights require maintenance just as your heating and air conditioning systems do. Proper maintenance ensures your lights are working properly and you’re still receiving the benefits you expect. Changing the lamps is essential to system performance, and bulbs should be changed regardless of whether or not they are completely burnt out.

How frequently you should change the bulbs depends on how you are using the UV system:

• Change bulbs every year to maintain the highest level of performance which will benefit family members with sensitivities to certain contaminants and respiratory conditions.
• Change bulbs every two years if you’re using the UV system to simply keep your HVAC coils clean. Bulbs have a lifespan of approximately two years, so this schedule can help you take advantage of their service life.

Don’t leave bulbs unchanged for three or more years. By this point, bulbs can begin to use excess power, causing unnecessary energy expenses. Plus, these old bulbs are simply no longer effective. If you haven’t replaced your bulbs by the three-year mark, shut off the UV lights to save energy until the new bulbs have been installed.

UV lights can be very beneficial to the health of your family when properly maintained. For installation of new bulbs, contact Aladdin Heating & Cooling— we’ve been serving Southeast Michigan homeowners for decades!

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

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Indoor Air Quality vs. Microorganisms

It can often seem like a real battle when it comes to ridding your home of microorganisms. These organic components include pollutants such as bacteria, viruses, mold spores, etc. When inhaled into your lungs, they can cause severe respiratory problems. For those suffering from allergies and asthma, the effects can be devastating.

Placement of UV Lights

UV (ultraviolet) lights eliminate microorganisms in your air by penetrating their molecular structure and breaking the bonds that keep them together, rendering them harmless. Where you place these lights is an important factor. You can install them at the site of your evaporator coil, as well as in your return duct. In either location, microorganisms will be broken down when your HVAC equipment moves air throughout your home.  The advantage of the coil placement is that moisture collects in this area, resulting in mold and mildew. With the lights so close, these substances can be treated as they accumulate.

Variable Power

Like everything else, advancements over the years have improved on the technology utilized in a UV light system. Older systems only had one setting, which was basically to keep the UV lights on for 24 hours a day, at full power. While this effectively removed microorganisms from a home’s air, this constant use of energy resulted in higher energy bills. New systems have corrected this by allowing for an alternating degree of power, based on the density of microorganisms in your air. By switching to full power only when the amount of microorganisms necessitates it, homeowners can expect to use much less energy with these new lights.

For more expert advice about UV light, or for questions relating to home comfort, please contact the friendly professionals at Aladdin Heating & Cooling. We’ve been serving the HVAC needs of the Detroit Metro area and Southeast Michigan since 1945.

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

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According to some studies, the air inside your house is as much as five times more polluted than the air outdoors. Not only do you get dust and pollen from outdoors, but you also get viruses brought in by people. While filters can help somewhat, they also block airflow through your HVAC system, making it less efficient. A UV light system solves this problem by eliminating microorganisms without interfering with your HVAC system’s efficiency.

UV lights put out ultraviolet light, a type of radiation also put out by the sun. They work by altering the DNA of living organisms. The organisms’ molecular bonds are broken, weakening them so that they are unable to reproduce, so they die more quickly. The amount of bacteria, fungi and viruses in your air is reduced, making it healthier for your family to breathe.

UV lights are a more efficient method of cleaning the air than heavy-duty filters because they have no effect on airflow. They also help stop the spread of viruses that cause family members to infect each other, and they help reduce asthma symptoms by removing common triggers such as mold and bacteria.

If you’ve heard about the danger of the sun’s UV rays to humans, there’s no need to picture yourself having to wear sunscreen in your own home. UV rays are only harmful to organisms that they directly touch. Because UV light systems are installed inside your ductwork, they never have contact with the people living in your house. They are effective, safe and do not affect the energy efficiency of your HVAC system.

For more information about using a UV light system to get cleaner air, contact Aladdin Heating & Cooling. We’re proud to have served Detroit, Warren, Troy and the greater Metro-Detroit area for over 65 years!

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

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UV lights work in much the same way as sunshine does outdoors, UV waves penetrate the thin membrane cells of microorganisms, such as germs, viruses and mold spores. While this doesn’t kill the microorganisms, the effect renders these cells unable to gather protein and reproduce.

A qualified HVAC professional can install UV lights into a sealed area of your system. This will ensure that microorganisms passing through your system are exposed for the proper duration, and it will keep your family from being exposed directly to the UV light. As the air circulates through your system, it will pass through the UV light chamber and be pushed out through your vents into your home.

Ask your HVAC professional about the use of media filters that are thicker, and more efficient than flat fiberglass filters. Media filters will not only ensure cleaner air, but will actually catch the treated cell particles that remain even after UV treatment.

There is no substitute for fresh, clean air. But having UV technology installed in your HVAC system will noticeably affect the indoor air quality of your home or office. It should be noted that keeping your home clean makes combating these germs and viruses a much easier task for your system.

For more information on UV lights, or any other HVAC concerns, contact the professionals at Aladdin Heating & Cooling, serving the metropolitan Detroit area for 65 years.

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To further the problem, the winter season brings with it the likelihood of colds and flu, due to bacteria and germs in the air. But it’s these pollutants that UV-light systems are designed to target.

How UV lights work

Connected to your HVAC equipment, UV lights emit their powerful rays as the air in your home circulates through the furnace and UV-light system. Once pollutants are subjected to the UV rays, they are essentially no longer harmful, because the UV rays kill the cells, zapping the core of the cells’ DNA so they can’t reproduce.

With each pass of air through the system, more of your home’s air is targeted by the powerful rays, so the system increases indoor air quality with every day that passes.

A bonus benefit

With UV lights at work in combination with your HVAC system, they also clean your furnace’s components, ensuring that buildup doesn’t occur, and enhancing its overall efficiency and life span.

Additional options

If your main concern is targeting bacteria and viruses, a UV-light system is the answer. But be sure to select a system that doesn’t also emit ozone in order to work, which can further decrease your home’s indoor air quality and pose a significant health hazard.

You can now purchase air-purification systems that combine UV lights with other technologies to target additional pollutants, like pet dander, dust particles, and Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC’s) which cause odors.  One of the leading air purification models is the Lennox Pure Air Air Cleaner.  See our website www.AladdinHeating.com for more details on this system and others like it.

Get advanced solutions to winter indoor air problems by having a UV-light system installed. It can take care of summer humidity problems too, like mold, for better indoor air quality year-round. Contact the air purification experts of West Bloomfield, Bloomfield Twp., Bloomfield Hills, Birmingham, and Beverly Hills at Aladdin Heating & Cooling.  Serving Oakland, Macomb, and Wayne Counties since 1945.

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UV lights emit a low level of UV radiation that alters the DNA of contaminants like bacteria, viruses and fungi, killing them immediately.  This radiation is harmless to you, but it destroys dangerous microorganisms that can cause harm to your health.

You can utilize the power of UV lights by having an HVAC professional install a UV lamp in your air system.  When installed properly, the light will be able to filter the air that passes through your duct system.  Even when your system is not actively running, these lights continue to kill and help prevent the growth of germs.

UV lights are so effective at preventing the spread of disease that they are frequently incorporated into hospital air systems.  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cites their use because of their proven ability to stop diseases as contagious as tuberculosis from circulating amongst patients.  Fortunately, their incredible power is still affordable enough for use in your own home.

Before having them installed, it is important to understand the limitations of ultraviolet lights.  They are not meant to prevent the spread of non-living pollutants such as dust and pollen throughout your home.  But when used as a complement to high-efficiency air filters, you will be sure that you get the best indoor air quality possible.

For more information about getting a UV light system installed in your home, contact Aladdin Heating & Coolingtoday.  We have proudly served southeast Michigan since 1945, and will gladly help you with any air quality issues you may have.

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

Aladding Heating & Cooling services the Detroit, Michigan and the surrounding areas. Visit our website to see our special offers and get started today!