Learn more about your in‑home air quality and explore the dependable products we use to provide the most efficient, effective, and long‑lasting air purification solutions for your household. Our team will help you understand options, benefits, and maintenance to keep your indoor air cleaner and healthier year‑round.
Indoor Air Quality
Breathe easier in the place you call home.
The air inside your home can be affected by outdoor pollution, wildfire smoke, dust, pollen, moisture, household activities and pollutants generated indoors. Because many people spend a significant amount of time indoors, the quality of your indoor environment is an important part of your home's comfort.
At Tropic Air Heating & Air, we help homeowners throughout Medford and the Rogue Valley evaluate their indoor air quality and explore solutions designed around their home's specific needs.
Indoor air quality can be affected by more than you might think.
Airborne Particles
Dust, pollen, smoke and other airborne particles can circulate through your home. Proper filtration and air cleaning can help reduce particles moving through the air.
Moisture & Humidity
Excess indoor moisture can contribute to damp conditions and biological growth. The EPA generally recommends keeping indoor relative humidity below 60%, with an ideal range of approximately 30% to 50% when practical.
Stale Indoor Air
Modern homes can become tightly sealed. Without adequate ventilation, pollutants and moisture can accumulate indoors. Controlled ventilation can help exchange stale indoor air with outdoor air when conditions are appropriate.
Improving indoor air quality is rarely about one single product.
The best approach depends on the source of the problem and the way air moves through your home. A comprehensive strategy generally considers source control, ventilation and filtration or air cleaning together.
Control the Source
Reduce pollutants where they originate. Examples include controlling moisture, using kitchen and bathroom exhaust fans, reducing indoor smoke and limiting pollutants brought into the home.
Ventilate Properly
Controlled ventilation can remove stale indoor air and introduce outdoor air when conditions are suitable. An ERV can help provide ventilation while recovering some energy from the outgoing air.
Filter & Clean the Air
HVAC filtration and supplemental air-cleaning equipment can help reduce airborne particles and address additional air-quality concerns depending on the technology used.
When outdoor air quality changes, your indoor air quality can change too.
Wildfire smoke contains fine particles that can enter homes. During periods of unhealthy outdoor air quality, the EPA recommends keeping windows and doors closed, using appropriate filtration or air cleaning, and avoiding the introduction of unfiltered outdoor air when possible.
The EPA recommends MERV 13, or the highest rating your HVAC system can accommodate safely.
During heavy smoke conditions, keep windows and doors closed and be cautious about ventilation systems that bring in unfiltered outdoor air.
High-efficiency filtration and properly selected air-cleaning systems can help reduce airborne particles throughout your home.
Solutions designed for different indoor air quality needs.
REME HALO
The REME HALO is an in-duct air-cleaning system designed to be installed within a central HVAC system. RGF describes the system as an active air purification technology designed to treat air moving through the HVAC system.
- Installed within a central HVAC system
- Designed for whole-home air treatment
- Can be evaluated as part of a broader IAQ strategy
MicroCon WholeHome HEPA
Whole-home HEPA filtration is designed to capture very small airborne particles. RGF's MicroCon systems use H13 HEPA filtration and are available in different airflow capacities for residential applications.
- High-efficiency particle filtration
- Designed for whole-home applications
- Useful when reducing airborne particles is a priority
Energy Recovery Ventilators
An Energy Recovery Ventilator, or ERV, provides controlled outdoor-air ventilation while transferring heat and some moisture between incoming and outgoing air streams.
- Introduces controlled outdoor air
- Exhausts stale indoor air
- Transfers heat and moisture between air streams
Not sure what your home needs?
Indoor air quality problems can have different causes. Tropic Air can help evaluate your home's filtration, ventilation and air-cleaning needs and help determine which solution makes sense for your home.
Call Tropic Air: 541-773-9866Learn More About Indoor Air Quality
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: Indoor Air Quality
- EPA: What Can I Do to Improve Indoor Air Quality in My Home?
- EPA: Wildfires and Indoor Air Quality
- ASHRAE: 10 Tips for Home Indoor Air Quality
- U.S. Department of Energy: Home Ventilation
- RGF Environmental Group: Product Information
This page provides general educational information. No indoor air quality product can remove every pollutant or guarantee specific health outcomes. Product performance depends on proper equipment selection, installation, operation and maintenance.