How Healthy Is Your Home?

If you’re wondering how healthy your home is…wonder no more!  We can help you determine the health status of your home and we can show you how easy it is to make your home a healthy home.

The first step is to do a Healthy Home assessment.  In this first step towards a Healthy Home, we will perform a visual inspection of the home, take an inventory of air filtration and water filtration systems (if you have any) and perform an indoor air quality test to see what your starting point is.

We will check for the following:

1. What are your airborne dust levels in the air in the home
2. What are the dust levels coming from vents
3. What are your vacuum cleaners emitting into the air
4. Do you have adequate ventilation
5. Are there odours
6. Do you have gases
7. Are there hidden moisture issues
8. Are there hidden mould issues
9. What water filtration do you have
10. Allergy and medical questionnaire

From the above healthy home assessment, we can better assist you in making your home a healthy home for you and your family.  Why live in a home that has inadequate ventilation, has excessive dust in the breathable air, has odours, mould and has water with dangerous contaminants for bathing and drinking.  Why live with an indoor environment that does not filter out pollutants and create oxygen for health and well being.

A Bionic healthy home products company can do all of these things.  Pure, fresh clean air and water for a healthier life.

Why drink filtered water and still bathe or brush your teeth with polluted water?

These questions usually gets a surprising response.  Most people these days realize that drinking water from the tap is probably not the best for your long term health.  There have been numerous stories over the last few decades where the municipal water was found to either have high bacterial contamination or lead that was not communicated until it was much too late.

I think it’s safe to say that most people these days drink either bottled water or have a water filtration system or reverse osmosis drinking water system in their home.

However, what most people don’t realize is that they should pay just as much attention to the water quality that comes out of their bathroom tap (for brushing your teeth or washing your face), comes out of the kitchen tap (for washing glasses, dishes and providing water for their pets) and what you bathe or shower with.  

Municipal water (by the time it comes out of your tap) contains chlorine and can contain hospital waste, prescription drugs, birth control, pesticides, lead, asbestos, and the list goes on.  Why would you want to brush your teeth with this and why would you want to sit in a bath with this type of contamination?  

Showering instead?  This may actually be worse!  Water is treated at the municipal water treatment plant with chlorine.  The chlorine remains in the water from the treatment plant until you use it in your home for any of the above activities.  When chlorine combines with organic matter (which are certain to be found in the water supply line and pipes of your house) it creates a compound called trihalomethanes (THMs) which is a disinfectant byproduct.  THMs can be in the form of chloroform and trichloramine which are carcinogenic.

THMs can cause lung cancer, bladder cancer, rectal cancer lowered birth rates, spontaneous abortions, birth defects, and the list goes on.  THMs may also lead to asthma and may damage the mucosal lining of the respiratory tract.

Solution?  It’s actually really easy and not expensive.  A whole house water filtration system installed in your home where the municipal water pipe enters your home would remove these pollutants including the chlorine.

You would be brushing your teeth, washing your face, bathing, showering, and water your plants and hydrating your pets with clean, filtered water coming from every faucet in the home.

Call us, we can show you how easy and affordable whole house water filter.

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Prevent Household Transmission of COVID-19. New Study finds coronavirus may be alive and airborne for up to 3 hours.

Prevent Household Transmission of COVID-19.  New Study finds coronavirus may be alive and airborne for up to 3 hours.

More information and more studies are coming out every few days.  It would appear through the latest research published in the New England Journal Of Medicine that COVID-19 is similar to SARS in 2003 that it can be transmitted through the air. The recent study found that COVID-19 can stay alive in the air for 3 hours, on cardboard for 24 hours and on plastic for 3 days.

Coronavirus survives hours in air, 3 days on surfaces, study finds

This creates a new threat for people self isolating as well as businesses trying to return back to normal.  These studies would suggest that having air purification in your home and other indoor environments such as offices is essential in winning the battle against the coronavirus.

We have the indoor viral spread solution!  Protect your home now.

Here is what you need:

1. Electronic Agglomeration Furnace Filtration (Removes 50-94% of bioaerosols compared to standard pleated furnace filters)  We tested this ourselves with airborne mould and bacteria.
2. Central HEPA filtration (Removes 99.97% of allergens 0.3 microns or larger)
3. Central UV disinfection inside your ducts – kills 99.99% of bacteria and VIRUSES.

Our Bionic Cimatec Agglomeration furnace filter system has been tested to remove 50%-94% more bio-aerosols from the air compared to high end pleated media furnace filters.  This is the first stage in removing airborne viruses.

The second stage is a true seal central HEPA filtration system that will catch whatever the furnace filter can’t.  This exact brand was used for hospital isolation chambers with airborne SARS in 2003 and is again being used in hospitals for isolation rooms for COVID-19 today!

The final stage to combating airborne viruses is a UV disinfection system.  This installs directly into your duct system and prevents both airborne bacteria and viruses from staying viable (alive) or from bacteria and mould developing inside your heating and cooling system.

Proper ventilation, air filtration as well as disinfection is becoming increasingly more important not just for this pandemic.  Protecting your home and family from others who may be ill and reducing airborne transmission and viral spread will help today and for any potential second waves of COVID-19 in the next few months.  The definition of Healthy Homes has been changed forever.  Homeowners are ensuring their indoor air quality can protect the home and its occupants for any future pandemics.

Call us today to discuss your healthy home and air filtration products toronto .  We are here to help.

Prevent Summer Allergies With Best Air Purification

Indoor allergies this summer are estimates to be anywhere from high to very high, with hot and humid days and elevated air pollution.  This means that allergy sufferers in Toronto and the GTA will have a tough time this summer unless they have a healthy home with good indoor air quality and the best air purification.

Hot temperatures, high humidity, elevated particles, and allergens such as dust, pollen, ragweed, and mold spores as well as poor ventilation and chemical off-gassing such as VOC’s can make a Toronto summer a tough place to spend indoors.

As outdoor pollution increases on hot summer days and the outdoor allergens increase, your indoor air quality and the status of your home can make the difference between having allergic reactions and enjoying your healthy home.

Air purification systems are one of the most important indoor air quality systems to prevent indoor allergic reactions.  Whether you are using a central air purification and air filtration system or portable HEPA air purifiers, you need to get the dust and allergens out of the air that you are breathing.

Common Indoor Allergens:

• Fine particle dust
• Fibers
• Mold Spores
• Bacteria
• Virus
• Pollen
• Ragweed
• Oak
• Pine
• Cedar
• other allergens

Air purification systems are the first line of defense in making sure your indoor air quality is providing you with a healthy home and making your home a safe haven or sanctuary from outdoor pollutants.  Only properly designed and properly built indoor air quality filtration and air purification systems can protect you from summer allergies indoors.

Your home should have as the first line of defense a quality and highly efficient furnace filter that does not restrict airflow through your heating and cooling system.  The Bionic Cimatec furnace filter system is ideal for keeping your furnace and your duct system clean.  The second line of defense is a state-of-the-art central HEAP air filtration system that filters 99.97% of airborne dust and particulates of 0.3 microns or larger.  Ideally, allergy sufferers will also have a UV air purification system to prevent bacterially and mold build up in the air conditioning and duct system.  These UV air purification solutions can also kill 99.99% of airborne bacteria and viruses to provide you with the ultimate air protection.

So in summary, you can prevent summer allergies by staying indoors on high pollution days which are common in Southern Ontario.  However, you will need to have the 3 air filtration and air purification systems like the furnace filter, central HEPA and the UV disinfection system to have the best air purification system.

Other factors that will influence indoor allergies will be temperature as well as relative humidity.  Temperatures indoors should be in a range of 21 to 23 degrees and relative humidity should be 50% to 65%.

Air ventilation is also important and your home should have adequate fresh air coming into the home to keep airborne chemicals and gases allow as possible.

Call us today we will be happy to show you our air purifier toronto and healthy home solutions.