After reading the article on indoor ozone I wanted to make a few comments from personal experience.
The article talked about buying an oversized unit, for a 3000 square foot house. that is the unit we bought when we replaced our old unit. My primary reason for buying the unit oversized is that I wanted the air purification to reach my shop. That is the positive and negative Ion generation. Testing this in the last two months, it does seem to work. No one that I know would put a unit designed for 3000 square feet in a room and run it full blast. That is crazy. In fact, in April we did that very thing. We had new carpet installed in that room, so we put the ozonator in that room and turned it all the way up. Then we left the house for two or three weeks. We have two houses, one in Winston Salem and one in the North Carolina mountains. We plan to move to the mountains. We had bought an old house and we slowly are fixing and improving the house. This is also where my shop is. When we came back, we could smell a little ozone when we came in. My wife turned the unit down very low. This is where the article went wrong, since we run the unit at the lowest level as we can. We like to run it where I can just barely smell it. I sleep better with ozone, but it is not a cure for sleep problems. Bacteria and viruses in the air will die with or without ozone. A cold germ will die in about 45 minutes exposed to air without ozone. Ozone may get it faster, but this may not be the reason to buy a unit. We have two cats, with the ozone generator running, the litter box has no odor. The article mentioned body odor. I never thought about body odors, we have a shower. But it is very effective with dog odors. We had a 92% gas forced air furnace installed about 17 years ago. They had to put the air intake for the burner outside. They said that the air in the house is more toxic and corrosive than the outside air. This is why I use ozone. I also like the fresh smell it gives the house. The article said that we did wrong with the carpet. I do not believe that the article mentioned if the newly formed chemical was a gas or not. But hopefully after two weeks that chemical was gone or dispersed. Our first ozonator had a button that you pressed to get twice the maximum amount of ozone for 45 minutes, then the unit would turn off. The directions told you to get out of the house and take your pets with you. We used this feature in a bathroom to get rid of some mold. Ozone is not a cure all. It will only affect chemicals that react with oxygen. If you were to set out a cup of house hold ammonia the ozone will convert it to pure water. This is a good article and I am glad I read it. But it was a unfair talking about putting the unit in a small room and blasting it. We have our unit in the basement set as low as we can to get the performance we want. The article did say that a user cannot tell how much ozone they ar producing. This is true, but experience will help you get a handle on it. A new user will find that in a couple of days that the ozone got stronger. That is because the ozone was being used up quickly and the new user will have to turn it down untill it is at a level that works for them. Gasoline is one of the most dangerous chemicals we can use. Yet with safe practice we can go a life time with no problems. Ozone generation is the same thing, being smart the benefits can be gotten without any problems. I believe that most of you would use an ozonator if you tried one for two weeks. John http://WhiteCane.org http://BlindWoodWorker.com http://HolyTeaClub.comcom\whitecane http://anellos.ws ----- Original Message ----- From: Dan Rossi To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2010 5:20 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Air Purification Systems John, Did you get the same link to open that Lenny sent to the list? The entire article was about Ozone generators and indoor air quality. Here is the link again. EPA statement on indoor Ozone generators http://www.epa.gov/iaq/pubs/ozonegen.html -- Blue skies. Dan Rossi Carnegie Mellon University. E-Mail: [email protected] Tel: (412) 268-9081 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
