Indoor air quality services in Troy, Ohio
We install filtration, humidity control and ventilation in Troy, from the office at 2950 Stone Cir Dr. We measure humidity, particulates and ventilation in your house before recommending a thing.
Filtration, purification, and humidity control for allergy season, dry winters, and everything the Miami Valley air brings inside.
What indoor air quality equipment can I get?
We measure humidity, particulates and ventilation before recommending anything.
What does a Miami County basement usually need?
Moisture control before anything else. Troy's older housing has full basements below grade and the newer subdivisions on the edge of town are tighter than the stock downtown, so the same complaint has two different causes. A whole-home dehumidifier handles standing summer humidity, and a ducted energy recovery ventilator handles stale air in a tight house. Which one applies comes from the measurement, not from the age of the house alone.
Is a higher MERV filter always better?
No, and this is the most common way people make things worse while trying to help. A denser filter catches more, and it also restricts more air, and a system designed around a one-inch filter can be starved by a high-MERV one dropped into the same slot. Starved airflow means a furnace running hot and an air conditioner freezing its coil. If you want serious filtration, the answer is a thicker media cabinet with far more surface area, not a denser filter in the existing gap.
What actually affects the air in a house?
Four things, roughly in order: moisture, ventilation, filtration and source control. Humidity that sits too high grows things and too low irritates everything. Ventilation decides whether what you generate indoors gets diluted or accumulates. Filtration catches particles, and only particles. Source control means the cooking, the cleaning products, the attached garage and the pets that put things into the air in the first place. Most air quality money gets spent on the third one when the answer was one of the other three.
Can a house be too airtight?
It can be too airtight without deliberate ventilation, which is not the same as saying tight houses are bad. A leaky old house ventilates by accident, expensively and unevenly. A tight modern one holds humidity, cooking byproducts and everything else indoors until something removes them on purpose. That is what mechanical fresh air is for, and it is why newer houses sometimes feel stuffy despite being far better built. The answer is controlled ventilation rather than deliberately making the shell leak.
Does cooking really affect indoor air that much?
More than most people expect, particularly with gas. Cooking puts fine particles and combustion byproducts straight into the room, and a range hood that recirculates through a charcoal filter rather than venting outside does very little about it. Use the hood every time and check that it actually vents outdoors. If it does not, opening a window while cooking does more than any purifier will, and it costs nothing.
How do I know it worked?
How do I book an air quality assessment in Troy?
Call (844) 584-7399 and you get a person, or book online in about a minute. If it's an emergency, no heat or water on the floor, call rather than booking. That skips the next-day queue and goes straight to the 24/7 line.