HEPA air purifiers are a waste of money. I will prove it, then show you what you need to do to improve your indoor air quality. Before starting Forever Ozone, I was an IAQ tester for an environmental engineering firm.  

1. Table top HEPA air purifiers don’t move enough air to do the lofty job of purifying indoor air to any degree, let alone to a degree that improves indoor air quality enough to make them worth the expense!   Most HEPA air purifiers only move a few hundred cubic feet a minute of air. Your HVAC air handler on the other hand moves over 3000 cubic feet of air per minute. (CFM)  Your HVAC system is designed to change the air in your home at least two times per hour. If you’re looking for dust removal, look there, not a table top air purifier!   All you need to do is install a good MERV 11 furnace filter (only cost $5-$6 on eBay if you by 12 at a time) and run the fan in the “on” position 24/7.  HVAC system fans are energy efficient so that will only cost you around $10 a month extra electric. WARNING: Be especially weary of heavily marketed air purifiers like the “Ionic Breeze” years ago or the Molekule today that don’t offer a CADR (clean air delivery rate).  Why?  They don’t move that much air and thus can’t offer much air cleaning capabilities, outside perhaps of a small sealed chamber, lol.  
2. HEPA air purifiers don’t kill airborne viruses, molds, or bacteria. They do trap them a small percentage of them inside of their filters, an area that is dark and sometimes moist, and guess what happens next? 
3. HEPA air purifiers don’t sanitize surfaces and kill surface molds, bacteria, viruses, fungus, parasites, and they don’t kill dust mites. 
4. HEPA air purifiers cause noise pollution and waste electricity, adding insult to injury.  
5. HEPA air purifiers don’t get rid of odors or VOC’s very well, if at all.  

What is the solution?  Forever Ozone’s Cheap Air Purifier Solution that also employs carbon, UV, UVC, TiO2 Mesh, and ozone shock treatment options. (Test with a particle counter meter – 100% dust reduction)

1) “Shock” your air with high concentrations of ozone to kill all surface micro-pathogens such as molds, bacteria, viruses, etc when nobody is home. 2) Run your HVAC system 24/7 and utilize a MERV 11 filter; change it every 3 weeks (it will be black – but better a cheap filter than your lungs). 3) Install a UVC Induct system. 4) Bring in fresh as often as possible.  That’s it. Do that and your indoor air will help promote good health, not rob you of your health.  

For the ozone shock treatment, you will need enough ozone rated in milligrams per hour (mg/h) to do your entire structure at the same time. Going room by room with a small machine won’t work very well because “bad stuff” from one area will quickly leach into sanitized areas, you’ll be like a dog chasing their tail. You’ll never get it.  You have “stuff” you want to sanitize in every nook and cranny, in your duct work, in your closets, in your drawers. You want to open everything up and shock it with ozone at the same time. The industry recommends 1000 milligrams per 100 square feet but that only works if you have 10-20% humidity. At 50% humidity, ozone production is reduced by 50%. Also, trying to get rid of second hand smoke, you need 2 times the recommended amount of ozone. Say you have a 2000 square foot home with 8 foot ceilings. If you have 10-20% humidity, you can get by with 20,000 mg/h of ozone to shock the structure at tone time. However, if the humidity level is 50%, you’ll need 40,000 milligrams of ozone.  If you are trying to get ride of second hand smoke, you’ll need 80,000 milligrams to get the job done right. Our commercial solid state ballasts and 20,000 hour heavy duty ozone plates are economical enough to perform “whole house” ozone shock treatments at one time, and that’s what the doctor orders to get’r done. 

What is the difference between Forever Ozone’s proprietary solid state transformers and the Chinese transformers used in Amazon and eBay models?   Our ozone ballast – transformers have removable plates and power cords and don’t feature any high voltage wires outside of the ballast.  The Chinese ozone generators feature transformers with red high voltage wires that are glued onto non-removable ozone plates. (a shock and fire hazard)  Those are basically disposable transformers.   Our ozone plates plug right into the side of the ballast, as does the power cord. If the ballast fails, just send it in for a free replacement.

What is our shock treatment protocol?  

1. We use steel blade fans that can move 3000 to 4000 CFM of air and blow the ozone straight up towards the ceiling. Ozone is heavier than air and doing this will force the air near the roof down towards ground level where it will quickly become ozonated by the two to eight 4″ x 4″ ozone plates that produce 20,000 to 80,000 milligrams of ozone per hour and which are mounted to commercial steel blade fans. 2. We utilize  24 hour, 30 minute interval timers that allow you to schedule an ozone shock treatment while you’re away from home and turn off at least one hour before anyone re-occupies the structure.  3. Air out the house by opening all of the windows and turning the fan to blow air out of one of the bottom floor windows so that you draw fresh air into the house.  That’s it! Now all of the surfaces are disinfected, VOC’s have been destroyed, mites have been killed (and their feces neutralized) and your air is fresh and clean. 

I was an IAQ expert and offer great advice in the manuals on the proper way to do anything from get rid of second hand smoke to kill mites, mold, or just get rid of odors, any odor, skunk, rotting flesh, etc.  I also offer our customers free advice after the sale, and I answer the phone. 

If you have VOC’s or “sick home syndrome,”  an ozone shock treatment is the only solution.  Don’t waste your money on a VOC air purifier alone, they alone can’t do the job of drastically lowering your VOC levels. Why? Because they do nothing to address the chemicals leaching out (off-gassing) from the building materials, that’s why.  To accomplish that, you will need to perform several ozone shock treatments over several days or even weeks. That’s what furniture manufacturers with government contracts do. (I sold ozone generators to one such contractor)  They place their furniture in a trailer, run the ozone for a few hours on, a few hours off for about a week, then ship them off after a VOC test reveals it passes government standards. It’s interesting to me that our politicians require the furniture they buy to place in their government offices meets a higher standard for off-gas VOC’s than the what is mandated for the general public.   Actions speak louder than words, don’t they?  

VOC’s and molds are the two things you’ll find in your indoor air that make people sick.  (statistically) However, they’re not the number one indoor air allergen.  The number one indoor air allergen is dust mite feces. Dust mite feces is also tied to childhood asthma.  Dust mite feces gives homes lived in for many years that “old folk” smell. The only way to get rid of that biologically active material is with an ozone shock treatment which will also kill the dust mites! This should be done at least 4 times a year, and for sure before moving into a new home. The old tenants left behind their DNA, and god only knows what type of  biologically active material. One should bless their home with ozone before moving in to destroy all of that ‘junk.”  HEPA air purifiers don’t help with dust mite feces by the way. Why? As we move around, we kick that “crap” up. Air purifiers can’t keep up. Only sitting still for at least 30 minutes while your HVAC fan is running is the only way to remove that type of dust from the air, and the only way to make that dust inert so that you’re not taking in biologically active crap?  Perform periodic ozone shock treatments. 

Undoubtedly you’ve heard that ozone is a “toxic gas.”  That’s fake news. Ozone is oxygen. Oxygen can never be toxic. Well, strike that. In high concentrations, ozone gas is harmful to the lungs. So what. In high concentrations, drink too much water too fast, and water can kill you. Does that make water toxic? The fact remains, ozone isn’t for breathing, ozone is for sanitizing and killing the “bad stuff” in the air that makes us sick.  It does a better job of cleaning the air than any type of air purifier on the market. Again, all you have to do to address dust issues is change your furnace filter ever 3 weeks with a MERV 11 type filter, as mentioned above, and run your HVAC fan in the “on” position 24/7. That is the best “air cleaner” you can get!  If you have money, you can opt for an HVAC air scrubber that does an even better job. However, to keep mold from growing in your ducts, and to kill the  mites and neutralize their droppings nothing comes close to doing the job that ozone does, and you won’t find a better ozone generator than those found at Foreverozone.com!  I guarantee that. And the last reason to buy from us? We answer the phone and offer expert advise and great customer service. That’s something you just won’t get on Amazon or eBay.