Air Quality

ThomasTico specializes in designing, engineering, and installing complete air quality systems to improve the air quality inside your home.
Improve your home's health by enhancing the quality of the air inside. Humidifiers help you control air moisture, ventilators bring fresh air into your home, electronic and traditional air filters clean the air before it circulates, and advanced ultraviolet lamps eliminate germs and bacteria.

Humidifiers

Protect your family and your home from the unhealthy and damaging effects of over-dry air:

• Dry nose, cracked, itchy skin, and sore throats
• Aggravated allergy and asthma symptoms
• Painful static shocks
• Chipping paint and plaster
• Splitting or cracked wood floors
• Furniture, trim and molding.

• You experience chronic physical symptoms such as sore throats, dry/itchy skin, nose bleeds or sinus irritation.
• Your home's wood floors are shrinking and cracking. Joints in wood furniture are becoming loose or failing.
• Wallpaper is peeling, while your paint or plaster is starting to crack.
• Annoying and sometimes painful static shocks are common occurrences.
• Your thermostat is cranked up, as is your energy bill, but you still feel cold.
• Your piano and other musical instruments are falling out of tune.

• Your skin often feels clammy, sweaty or sticky.
• Musty-smelling odors are invading your living space.
• Wood floors, trim or wood furniture is warping or rotting, paint is peeling.
• Condensation, frost or ice have formed on the inside surface of your windows. Water pipes are "sweating".
• Dampspots, or worse, mold and mildew, have formed on ceilings or walls.
• Your allergies or asthma have gotten worse due to the growth of mold, mildew and dust mites.
• Your house is a breeding ground for termites, cockroaches and other pests.

• Use ventilation fans in kitchens and bathrooms when in use. Ensure that your fans are venting directly outside.
• Cover dirt floor crawlspaces under your house with plastic to act as a vapor barrier.
• Check to make sure your dryer is vented to the outside. Don't dry wet clothes on drying racks in the house. Air-dry them outdoors if possible.
• Ensure air conditioning drip pans are clean and drain lines unobstructed.
• Fix any water leaks in pipes, toilets, showers, etc.

Aprilaire Model 400A Whole-House Humidifier

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• Odors - emitted from litter boxes, trash cans, dirty hampers, cooking, smoking, paints and solvents.
• Gases and vapors - emitted from new carpeting, building materials, cleaning supplies, candles, pesticides, personal care products, glues and adhesives.
• Stale and stuffy air - a result of today's energy efficient "tight" building techniques.

• Store volatile chemicals and cleaning products outside the home.
• Keep litter boxes away from heating and cooling system vents.
• Change your furnace filter according to manufacturer's recommendations.
• Have your fireplace and/or wood stove periodically cleaned and inspected.
• Clean dryer vents on a regular basis.
• Open windows and doors, as weather permits, to replace indoor air with fresher, outdoor air.
• Before new carpeting is installed, ask your retailer to unroll and air out the carpet in a well-ventilated area. Open windows while carpet is being installed.
• Utilize exhaust fans in bathrooms and ventilation hoods above stove tops.
• Ventilate crawl spaces, attics, hobby and work spaces.

Aprilaire Model 8100 Whole-House Ventilator


How does a ventilator work?

In the summer, warm fresh air passes near outgoing conditioned air, cooling it down. At no time do the stale and fresh air streams mix, instead they pass each other separated by thin walls that allow only the air’s energy to transfer, cutting your heating and cooling bills.

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Air pollution is a serious problem especially inside your home! The EPA has named indoor air pollution as one of the top 5 environmental risks to public health. The EPA also reports that indoor air can be up to one hundred times more polluted than the air outside. One hundred times! And while you are offered many options — standard 1" furnace filters, portable purifiers and ionizers — there’s only one truly effective solution: a Whole-House Air Cleaner.

What is an air cleaner?

Whole-home air cleaners make your air as clean as possible by removing particulates from your air, allowing you to breathe healthier air — important to those with allergies and asthma and for those who want the cleanest air possible for themselves and their family.  An air cleaner installed by your heating and cooling contractor, can help rid your home of dust, dust mites, pet dander, mold spores, pollen, bacteria and viruses, smoke and more!


How does an air cleaner work?

Whole-home air cleaners are installed as part of your home’s central heating and cooling system. That means each and every time your system runs, the air in your home is filtered through our state-of-the-art filter media removing potentially harmful contaminants from every room of your home.  The resulting clean air is then distributed via your heating and cooling system’s ductwork to your entire home.
Why do you need whole-house air cleaning? Consider this:

• Each person inhales over 3,500 gallons of air each day. Children inhale more particles for their size then adolescents or adults.
• Polluted air causes 94% of all respiratory problems.
• More than 31 million Americans have been diagnosed with asthma, about 1/3 are children under 18.
• About 40,000 dust mites, a common household allergen, can live in one ounce of dust.
• An estimated 10-15% of the entire population may be allergic to cat or dog dander.
• A person sheds up to 700,000 skin flakes per day.

• Health
  The air in your home is littered with virus-sized particles and bacteria, allergens, dust and other airborne contaminants. A whole-house air cleaner can help provide relief from these irritants — up to 40 times more efficiently than standard furnace filters.
• Comfort
  Ever feel as if all you do is clean your home? Installing a whole-home air cleaning system means you'll need to dust less, keeping your home and its contents cleaner and more comfortable.

• Protection
  Did you know that the build-up of dust and dirt can be damaging to your heating and cooling equipment contributing to increased and expensive maintenance or premature failure? A typical 1" furnace filter just can't provide enough protection. A whole-house air cleaner helps ensure that your heating and cooling system lasts as long as possible.

• Energy Savings
  Build-up of dust, dirt, pet dander, hair and other substances on your heating and cooling equipment can reduce its efficiency by as much as 25%. A whole-house air cleaner can filter out these particles and help maintain the efficiency of your central heating and cooling system by enabling it to satisfy your needs quicker, using less energy.

Aprilaire Models 2200/2250/2400 Whole-House Air Cleaners

Why suffer from airborne allergens when you can remove them for good?
The best choice for allergy sufferers is Aprilaire 2200, 2250 and 2400 Whole-House Media Air Cleaners which deliver the most efficient, cost-effective air cleaning for your home.

Model 2200: The Model 2200 is easily adaptable to up flow or horizontal duct configurations
Model 2400: The Model 2400 is compact, great for use with today's shorter furnaces in platform or closet installations
Model 2250: The Model 2250 is a grille-mount air cleaner and can be attached to roof-mounted, slab-mounted, attic or closet air-conditioning units

Benefits and Results

If you have allergies, you need effective whole-house air cleaning. Models 2200, 2250, and 2400 Whole-House Air Cleaning systems provide superior cleaning benefits and proven results:

• Traps 98% of visible airborne dust and other large particles.
• Permanently captures at least 97% of airborne pollen-sized particles
• Provides more than 30 times the filtering media used in standard 1" furnace filters.
• Requires no maintenance other than the infrequent replacement of filtering media every 1-2 years.
• Maintains and improves its filter media efficiency over time.

Aprilaire Model 5000 Whole-House Air Cleaner with active Control

Best for healthy homes: the Model 5000 Electronic Air Cleaner.

The Aprilaire Model 5000 Whole-Home Electronic Air Cleaner has been rated #1 three years running by a leading products ratings magazine for some very good reasons: It electronically charges particles and traps them like a magnet better than any other air cleaner - using 72 square feet of Aprilaire-branded filtering media. The Model 5000 is tried, true, and tested - delivering the highest efficiency possible.
Our company install air cleaners as part of your central heating and cooling system, the Aprilaire Model 5000 Electronic Air Cleaner can help give you the cleanest, healthiest air in every room of your home.

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UV Lights

The most effective way to enhance the quality of air in your home is the Germicidal UV Lamps Keep Coils Free of Mold, Bacteria

Germicidal UV lamps keep coils free of mold and bacteria.
UV Lamps from Carrier zap the mold and bacteria that can sometimes grow in the moist environment of your air conditioning or indoor coils. This way, unhealthy pollutants are killed and won't circulate through your family's home.
This greater activity and concentration of these airborne contaminants, equates to more allergic reactions, and sickness within families, for longer periods of time.