Indoor Air Quality

Your HVAC system moves the same air through your house a dozen times a day — which makes it the right place to fix air problems, and the wrong place to ignore them. Whether it’s allergy season making itself felt indoors, winter static and cracked-lip dryness, or a musty smell the candle aisle can’t fix, the solutions live at the system level.

What we install

• Media filter cabinets — a properly sized 4–5” MERV 11–13 media filter catches far more than a 1” hardware-store filter without strangling airflow. One change a year instead of monthly.
• Whole-home humidifiers — Ohio winter air is desert-dry once it’s heated. A furnace-mounted humidifier holds the house at a comfortable 35–45% RH, protecting wood floors, sinuses, and static-shocked pets.
• UV germicidal lamps — mounted at the evaporator coil, where dark and damp otherwise grow the biofilm responsible for “dirty sock” smells.
• Energy recovery ventilators (ERVs) — modern tight houses need deliberate fresh air. An ERV exchanges stale indoor air for fresh outdoor air while keeping most of the energy you paid to condition it.
• Duct cleaning & sealing — leaky return ducts pull attic and crawlspace air into the system. Sealing them improves both air quality and efficiency, and it’s one of the least glamorous, highest-payoff fixes we do.

Where to start

Start with the diagnosis, not a catalog. Half our IAQ visits end with a filter upgrade and a duct-sealing recommendation rather than a four-figure equipment package — the right fix is the one matched to what’s actually in your air.