I'm thinking of getting a whole house electrostatice air cleaner installed? Do they actually work better than the regular fiberglass/allergy/paper filters? Is there any negative aspects to using them?
I would Highly recommend a Media Type Air Cleaner. I owned a electrostatic air cleaner for about 5 years and wasted too much money on them. The biggest problem with them is the main circuit board goes bad and every time that happened it would cost about $500 and it happened about 3 times in 5 years so about $1500 to keep my house air clean and that air cleaner did not really do anything to keep my house air clean,Plus it is a pain to clean those cells every month.What the manufacture does is change the style about every two years so along with it the part "main board" changes also prices for the main board keep going up.Most of the electrostatic air cleaners are becoming extinct.
I got rid of that air cleaner and purchased a Aprilaire Spaceguard media air cleaner it only cost about $400 to install and about $20 for new media every year there is nothing to go bad with them and they do perform way better then the electrostatic and they do keep most of the dust out,I noticed a big difference right away..I have had the Spaceguard for 9 years with no problems what so ever.
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