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About Home Air Purifier Expert and My MissionSince 2005 Home Air Purifier Expert.com has shared practical advice for creating safer and healthier homes and a healthier planet with millions of global visitors. I have been the sufferer, but I also have specific qualifications to help just about anyone minimize the suffering from poor indoor air quality. My passion is to help other allergy sufferers become more aware of how to identify and mitigate the growing modern-day problems related to indoor air pollution and the effects of household hazardous wastes and toxins. Home Air Purifier Expert.com is my personal site. I put a lot of my time, effort, and money into keeping this website hosted and ever-growing with high quality and unique information about how to create a healthy home. I very much appreciate your support. QualificationsI hold a Bachelor of Science degree in Biological Chemistry from Clemson University. Some of my academic course work and specific areas of knowledge include:
My industrial experience includes almost 15 years as a Senior Analytical Chemist with one of the largest chemical companies in the world.
Even still, I gained extensive experience with a wide variety of purification technologies used in the automotive, industrial, and consumer markets. And specifically, I have worked on the research, development, testing, and manufacturing of filtration components and media - including that found in top selling water and air purifiers. I also have experience as the chief environmental health and safety auditor, which includes extensive EPA, OSHA, DHEC, DOT, HAZMAT, and NFPA training and certifications. Additional ExperienceOther areas in which I have experience, certifications, and training:
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You'll find that a lot of my above interests and experience is incorporated throughout the pages of Home Air Purifier Expert.com. I sincerely hope you find the information helpful. I am always working to add more useful content to this site and to make what is already here better organized. Your input is more than welcome. Regarding the scope of this site, I think it's important to note that reviews, ratings, and comparisons of air cleaners and air purifiers is but one facet of this site and how it is organized to help you create a healthier home or workplace. Curing your indoor allergies or sick building syndrome issues is often not as simple as just buying a room air purifier and hoping it does the trick. Yes, an effective air purifier can be a key PART of any plan to create a more healthy home. So this website will help you figure out which are the best air purifiers to buy. But to focus just on buying the best air cleaner would be like treating the symptom of a disease, rather than curing the disease itself. Home Air Purifier Expert.com is here to help you hack at the roots of the problem of indoor allergies, rather than just at the leaves of it. To focus ONLY on air cleaning is to focus only on a stop-gap measure that is one part of any effective overall plan for making your home more healthy and the air you breathe more pure. So this website is built to encompass a holistic approach to solving indoor air quality problems. This means a three-pronged strategy of air cleaning PLUS source control PLUS ventilation. The Holy Trinity of Healthy Indoor Air
These three general strategies hit at the heart of how you effectively hack at the roots of the indoor air pollution problem. This website will help you drill down to find specific action steps you can take in your own home. So you see, active air cleaning and filtration devices, even the best air purifier, is just ONE leg of the above three legged plan and is more of a reactionary or secondary back-up method - a "fail safe". But room air cleaners for solid and gaseous pollutants are still often very important because it is almost impossible or highly impractical to remove or dilute all sources of toxins in the average modern home, apartment, or workplace. Source Control of Pollutants is Often Not EasyI have been contacted many times by concerned tenants suffering from toxic air in multi-unit Apartment buildings or over garage apartments. Those are often cases where tenants have no choice but to rely more on air cleaning and ventilation, than on source control. Tenants often have a very tough row to hoe when it comes to source control because lacking hard evidence of Building-related illness or ambient air contaminants, they will often remain at the mercy of an unsympathetic landlord or less conscientious fellow tenants who may habitually be polluting the shared indoor air. And sometimes source control is impractical because of the nature of the place itself, rather than the behavior of the tenants. There are many components used in modern construction which may become indoor air pollution sources. But they are so widely integrated into the building structure itself, it sometimes makes it impractical to remove the sources. Two examples of building pollutant sources you may have seen in the news and that may be part of a home's structure is the toxic Chinese Sheetrock emitting sulfurous chemical compounds, and the OSB Wallboard with adhesives that release toxic Formaldehyde gas. Formaldehyde induced allergy and asthma attacks was a serious public health issue for those thousands of people temporarily housed in FEMA trailers in 2005/2006 following the destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina. In those cases, the structures would have to be renovated significantly to begin to reduce the hazard. In less extreme off-gasing situations, like most of us have, air purifiers and ventilation can often compensate when it is not practical to removed the structural pollutant sources. But most situations have their own unique inter-related variables such as the age, behavior, and health of the occupants; the age, condition, and contents of the residence; and even outside weather conditions that can influence indoor air pollution scenarios. Solving the mystery of Building-related Illness is often a complex endeavor. You have to view the residence as an integrated system of contents, structure, and behavior. There is seldom one magic bullet, hence the three-pronged approach. But creating a healthier home is worth it because if there is something in your home or workplace that is damaging your health, for example...
...it is likely that the long-term costs of not addressing the issue will far outweigh the short-term costs to minimize the sources or effects of it. Poor indoor air quality has been closely tied to diseases such as Asthma, Kidney Disease, and even Cancer. I am here to help you find the most cost-effective solutions to first identify where these health damaging sources may be, and then to eliminate or minimize them. I am always working on adding new information to this site which I hope will help you improve your long-term health and thus the environmental health of the planet as well. Fix one and you often end up fixing the other. It is a virtuous cycle. It's about improving overall quality of life. And there is no better place to start than where we spend most of our time - in our humble abodes. Overall MissionMy overall mission is to share easy to understand practical unbiased advice that will help you to make simple, yet cost-effective, changes in your home or workplace that can have a big impact on making your quality of life better, with the added bonus of being eco-friendly as well. Feel better. Live Longer. Lessen your environmental impact.
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