Hi today on Brenda K did you know that you can actually clean your air yep
clean your air.
Hey welcome back to Real Estate with Brenda K this is the show where we
talk about everything and anything to do with your real estate and as I was
saying today we've got the guys here. We've got Ron and Byron. Thank you so
much. They are with Aerus and today we're going to talk about one of the most
important things in your house and you one you absolutely never think of the air.
Of course, yeah.
Yeah because I never think of it. So tell us a little bit
about your company and-
Certainly so our company is called Aeris. We've been in
business 95 years. We specialize in air quality our
biggest kind of thing we do is air and surface purification so we all really
developed our technology for NASA for the space station so we do the air
cooling there and monitor it and we can do that same technology in your home
so we'll clean the air but also the surfaces of contaminants with virus
control the visible stuff, the dust is one thing but also the VOCs and
formaldehyde, mold spores that can be in your
home, mildew, virus control we can do it all with our technology.
Perfect okay and
Ron you brought it into the city.
Yeah, well, that's I mean, through Byron he has
a shop here in Bedford and so as a sales guy I go out-
I'm gonna trade
your spots just because there because I'm turning back and forth there we go
we all lined up? Okay, perfect.
Yeah so so basically if you're in the
HRM area and you know Nova Scotia vacinity sort of thing I'll take care of you,
come out to see you and we can assess your property you see what would be best for them.
I want to share a story too about one that you just did look after
for me. Okay so first I'll ask you, Byron, tell us a little bit
about the system and we can we're gonna put some pictures up so you guys can see.
Did you didn't bring a little portable unit today
I didn't we have different sizes so and we fit a kind of for every home so we
can we have standalone units that can do 2,000 square feet per hour. We have
systems that can just float on the come plug into the wall flow in the weong do
500 square feet. We have ones that do a 1,000 square feet standalone units.
Then we have ones you can put right into your ductwork so the heating system in your home
we can do the whole home at once we can also do it for if you have a
mini split heat pump is really big now so we can install
it right onto your mini-split heat pump. Help heat pump clean because of all
the issues a that's there on that and they take care of your home at the same time.
So tell us a little bit more, we'll explain to the viewers,
when you say VOCs what do you mean?
Yeah so VOCs - volatile organic compounds
And they're in the air.
They're in the air when anytime
you're especially building a new home or renovated a home all the off gas and all
the man-made products so from the gyproc to the flooring, the paint, the new furniture -
I didn't know that til you told me that all these materials put an-
Off-gas. Yeah any man-made product will put an off-gas sometimes that funny scent
you get off like a plastic bag and then that generates- because we build our home
so airtight is part of the issue we're trying to conserve on energy and heating
loss but because of that it we build it so tight that the gasses can't get out
then we're inhaling them all the time and you're what you eat, you are what you
breathe, you know.
So true, yeah.
Yeah, you you know four pounds of water a
day, six pounds of food you consume but you're breathing 36 pounds of air
and there's no filter on our lungs.
Yeah, because you know you have your your
liver, your kidneys that'll process you know that but you're breathing into your
lungs there's no filtration other than you know this hill yet the cilia or
whatever the hair in your nose so you need you know you need filtration.
It's getting more popular all the time there's a lot more studies coming
out from Canada talking about you know poor air quality and women can have a
higher breast cancer rate, poor air quality you can have if you're pregnant
you can have a little lower fetal rate. Dementia has been connected now to poor
air quality for your home and everything and even how you feel I get like my even
myself from high VOCs or from Formaldehyde is part of the VOC family we get a you
know almost like a cold or an allergy comes on to me I want to clarify that.
Also to the World Health Organization also basically said indoor air quality
has come up to say it's going to be one of the you know pronounced problems
moving into the 21st century because again and again because of our houses being so tight.
Even just now out in the world you know the all the the way they are trying to
clear the air and the pollution and everything else so any
pollution this basically inside your house that's where you're going to walk
into that pure air.
That's where we spend 90% of your time is inside.
The average statistics are one in
five people have allergies and asthma so with that we want to help with it you
can put a filtering a lot of companies out for you know and you can buy to
department stores about filtering system just a standard filter but we have
what's called ActivePure and ActivePure is a honeycomb cell system and it
generates kind of our ActivePure technology we call it and denature VOCs
and destroy them killing viruses-
And it lands on surfaces - like you were
explaining if someone comes over and they have a cold and there you know
touching everything.
Well it creates that hydroxyl- what is it what's that natural
occurring disinfectant?
Well, peroxide.
Peroxide.
Oh ,I didn't know that was natural.
Peroxide is always in the air. It's a second oldest natural
disinfectant behind the sun. So we're inhaling now so our machine kind of
gathers that and sends it out in a safe way. You know, we were in hospitals with
this and hotels.
And now bringing it to families home cuz I want to
I had a friend of mine and she has a little one and he's only a year old and
they're always catching something like oh this and that. So yeah I called-
Well see you
day care to his you've got a couple kids-
Small children and we have one of
our daycares at my kid's room we have it laid out the whole day here and there
isn't a reduction in sick days, breathing issues everything cuz it's so
transferable all the time.
Well tell us a little bit about what you did with my
girlfriend's house there?
Well yeah your your friend, you know, I had some
issues with her son and she couldn't really pinpoint, you know,
just an infant and but he always seemed to have something, you know.
cough or whatever and and it's she couldn't really pinpointit. The doctors
couldn't really help I mean you can only do so much with an infant so you know
she took the step and said you know let's get an air test so Byron came
over he did all the testing-
Oh, you test the air?
We offer free in-home air quality testing that's a big part of it because we
want to see what's there and then we have a solution to it if it's a certain
thing so we'll test for particles in the air set one in five microns with an air
quality tester laser particle monitor. We'll also test for VOCs and
formaldehydes in the air. We'll test for air humidity and also
surface humidity so we'll test for the walls or if there's anything growing
behind the walls or a high humidity content and then one on top of that
we'll do a UV light visual inspection in certain areas and then from that from
those that data that we collect we do it all in the spot. We can see if there's a
solution that we can offer and sometimes with the customer we went seen it
wasn't like a red light pointed at something that was one cause it was a
bunch of factors together so to do that we give a recommendation of what we
recommend for product you know even dehumidification we focus a lot of the
people- Nova Scotia needs dehumidifiers-
Absolutely I tell everybody
that if you've got eight-foot walls in your basement you need a-
dehumidifier almost running all the time.
so we have a line of that that's kind of
a little higher end stuff that can draw down enough water to make a difference
but a lot of humidifiers are don't cover enough square footage or they don't pull
it draw enough water down one time so we have a line that carries that too. So we
come up with a solution of different products that they may need if we can
help with that and then we look at what's the you know the best the
installed. So then we started looking at it do they have ductwork like your
customer does or do they have a hot water radiation like most of us and then
we have two standalone units and what what areas are the most important
and then we see you know usually a large difference really fast.
Well, yeah, you were saying she has seen a difference so you have one in your house.
Of course you have one in your house.
I do.
So can you actually like feel the
difference or like is there-
So I was at customers home yesterday that we
did the install for just to check back up with her and everything and in the
comics we've always hear the same all the time is the air feels crisp and
lighter they're always gonna say. Feels like outside like clean area yeah is
that lightness and that crispness is what we're getting that's kind of the
response we get from most of our customers of how they're feeling about air quality after an install.
You can reduce odors as well. So it's kind of weird because it's
sorta it's the absence of odor that you
notice as opposed to when you know when you walk in and you notice there's a
smell I mean that's easy one but that's why when you walk in it's like you know
there's something different well it's the absence-
It's just so fresh yeah and it's the
absence of odor. It's kinda fresher-
Yeah, we don't use
cover-ups. We abstract everything out of the air and then our system some of
them have happen charcoal if it's more of a dust and a smell issue the ones
just have the ActivePure side if that's all they need then so it's multifaceted
where we can install the technology from commercial, industrial, and residential we
have different size and different kinds of machines.
That you can take out. So
what kind of cost are people looking at?
Cost-wise for us you're looking at-
our range is, you know, starting around $250 to, you know,
could be $3,000 to $4,000.
Depending on the unit and the size of it.
Depending on what they might need even sometimes if it's more than one whole area.
So we have ones made for small bedrooms and then we have ones made for bigger living spaces-
Yeah, like you said a thousand square feet that you have right?
Yeah.
You know I was thinking too you know for old age homes or you have an elderly
parent or something and you know I mean they're sensitive they can be sensitive
to a lot of the different chemicals and things going on you know and that's why
I was thinking like in even in Shannex or places you know other facilities
where, you know, they've, you know, you're your loved one is there it's something
that you can purchase and give them for their specific room.
Yeah, and they're
not getting all the germs and everything-
Cuts down especially you have a compromised immune system or a low immune system
it helps with all those things in it because you're not having to fight off those
viruses and bacteria all the time.
This has been super interesting. Would you guys come
back again and talk to us about your laundry products?
Definitely.
You gotta come back.
So guys that was there were so much information there for us to learn. Thank
you to Byron, thank you to Ron. We've got their names on the bottom here with
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