WARNING! The 5 Common Health Hazards Risking Your Family’s
Health… And They Are All Found Inside Your Air Conditioner!
WARNING! The 5 Common Health Hazards
Risking Your Family’s Health…
And They Are All Found Inside Your Air
Conditioner!
Next time you turn on your air-conditioner…
take a deep breath and just notice what you smell. The point is you should smell nothing at all. If you do… you need
to do something about it.
“Dirty Sock Syndrome” is what the Americans call “that” smell when you
first turn on an air conditioner. It is a blast of air flowing over the dirt, dust
and DNA collected in the unit since it was last cleaned.
The big problem is…
most people don’t know when their air conditioner was last cleaned if at all.
People move into and out of houses and never think once about the cleanliness of their air conditioner or the air
they breathe.
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Imagine this…
A rental house has an air conditioner which is about 7 years old.
The house has changed tenants 3 times in the last 7 years. Each
family who lived there had four people and one family pet each.
Over that time, many people have visited the house…the air
conditioner has never been cleaned.
Years’ worth of dirt, dust (and mites), pet hair and dander, pollen,
mould, mildew and other contaminants build up and can be
trapped inside the air conditioner. This is just disgusting and
terribly unhealthy!!
Surprisingly, it is an all too common
scenario.
A survey commissioned by the electricity distribution company
Energex says “three quarters of all people in the Queensland
now have air conditioners installed in their homes.”
That’s a lot of dirty air conditioners!
An air conditioner can be seen as being the “lungs” of the
household.
Air conditioners need be thoroughly cleaned as well as
“serviced”. Cleaning will reward you threefold.
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Here are 3 Reasons Why “Servicing” Your Dirty
Air Conditioner is not Enough… It Needs to Be
Thoroughly Cleaned Too.
#1: Save on your power bills
A dirty coil and blower fan in your air conditioner means the unit has to work harder to cool the air. Your air speed will
decrease and you will be tempted to turn the temperature down to cool the room more.
This will only use more power.
If you have used your air conditioner regularly since its installation… it will be dirty!
When you have your air conditioner cleaned, up to 30% less power is used because the clean coil cools the air faster.
And the air speed can be doubled because the fan motor does not have to work as hard.
Using less power saves you more money.
#2: Microbial contamination is eliminated
All air conditioners, after regular usage become infected with “microbial contamination”. This contamination includes
fungi, mould and bacteria. It will sometimes smell like a dirty sock or a faint musty smell.
Air conditioners are the perfect environment for these contaminants, which become constantly airborne each time you
use your air conditioner.
Mould and humidity can be a very toxic mix.
A clean air conditioner will only blow out clean air and will be free from built up microbial contamination.
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#3: Your air conditioner will last longer.
“Sustainability” is the catchphrase these days. As
people try to do more for the environment, you can
have this as your contribution. A regularly serviced
and cleaned air conditioner will last a lot longer
than one which isn’t.
Would you buy a car and never have it serviced?
And if you did… would you expect it to last long?
Well, air conditioners are the same, they need to be
cared for so they can care for you.
A clean air conditioner is an important part of
everyone’s life, yet most people settle for less than
they deserve. A dirty air conditioner is more than an
inconvenient waste of energy and money…
it is a health hazard.
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When you are aware of the 5 Common Health
Hazards Risking Your Family’s Health you
will think twice about ever turning your air
conditioner on again… unless it is clean!
Here they are…
Common Health Hazard #1: Dust, Dirt and Grime
Dust is so common in our environment people never bother to think about what is in it. There have been many studies
to find out exactly what is in dust and their findings have been surprising.
A recent study at QUT in Queensland found the following compounds in dust:
Aluminium
Heavy Metals such as Lead, Mercury and Cadmium
Hydrocarbons
Construction debris such as stone, concrete and asbestos
Pesticides
Dust Mite Faeces
Paint particles and
Toxic Cigarette residue such as arsenic
Dust collects on surfaces deep inside the air conditioner and does not decompose. It clogs the filters, coats the coils and
will circulate in the air flowing out of the air conditioner. Dust will sit there until it is manually cleaned from the system.
(Sources: http://eprints.qut.edu.au/3662/1/3662.pdf, www.About.com, and www.info.com )
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Common Health Hazard #2: Allergens
Pollen, animal hair and dander (small skin flakes from animals) are all known allergens.
Up to 40% of children in Australia and New Zealand are affected by allergic disorders some time during life, with 20%
having current symptoms. Allergic diseases have approximately doubled in western countries over the last 25 years. The
most common allergic conditions in children are food allergies, eczema, asthma and hay fever (allergic rhinitis).
Although regular dusting of the home keeps allergen levels at a low level,
allergens collected within the air conditioning system is circulated continuously
and collected again.
These invisible allergens continue to be circulated until they are manually removed from the system via cleaning.
(Source: http://www.allergy.org.au/patients/allergy-prevention/allergy-prevention-in-children )
Common Health Hazard #3: Human Biological Products
As disgusting as it sounds...your house is filled with former bits of yourself.
The average human sheds around 30,000 – 40,000 skin cells per hour, which is close to 1 million cells per day. And 40
-100 strands of hair per day will fall from their scalp. That is a lot of skin and hair!
Regular cleaning helps to control the build up around the home and on
furniture. However, nothing stops the build-up of skin and hair inside your air
conditioner.
Over time these biological products will break down and decompose but in the meantime they are eaten by hungry
dust mites. Unfortunately, the more dust mites you have, the more dust mite faeces you have. So you can see, this
continues the nasty cycle of more dust and more allergens.
And all this is happening inside your trusty air conditioner. Yuck!
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Common Health Hazard #4: Bacteria
Bacteria in air conditioners has been a problem for years. You
may have heard of Legionnaires Disease, which was named
after a group of people who were the first fatalities of the
bacteria. This may seem like a pretty dramatic example of
what bacteria can do, but it can happen anywhere.
Humid conditions inside your air conditioner make for a
perfect breeding ground for bacteria.
Any bacteria coughed or sneezed into the air will end up
trapped inside the melting pot otherwise known as your air
conditioner.
Even the Medical Experts warn about the health risk.
“...The most common way you catch bacterial pneumonia
is to breathe infected air droplets from someone who has
pneumonia. Another cause is an improperly cleaned air
conditioner.”
(Source: http://www.webmd.com/lung/bacterial-pneumonia)
Who knows what type of bacterial build up is
happening right now, do you even want to know?
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Common Health Hazard #5: Mould and
Fungi
Moulds and fungi are found in nature and are necessary for
the breakdown of leaves, wood and other plant material.
They are not meant to be found in your house and definitely
not in your air conditioner!
The presence of mould does not always means that
health problems will occur. However, for some people the
inhalation of the mould, fragments of the moulds, or spores
can lead to health problems or making their pre-existing
health conditions worse.
Another problem with mould is that many of them make
“mycotoxins”. These are by-products from the mould which
have been identified as being toxic to humans. Toxins can
slowly wear down the immune system and can lead to
allergic or respiratory problems. Prolonged exposure to
mould and fungi can lead to neurological problems and
even death in extreme cases.
It is obviously much better not to have these health hazards
in your air conditioner in the first place.
(Source: http://www.ccohs.ca/oshanswers/biol_hazards/iaq_mold.html )
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So there you have it... The 5 Common Health Hazards Risking Your Family’s Health…
and they are found right there inside your “trusty” air conditioner. But they don’t have to
be. There is a better way.
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