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626-621-2220In most cities the answer to stale air is an open window. In Los Angeles that often trades one air quality problem for a worse one.

Every home needs air exchange. Without it, moisture, cooking odors, cleaning product vapors and carbon dioxide build up, and the air turns stale and close — most noticeably in closed bedrooms overnight. Older housing handled that by leaking constantly. Modern construction and any well-executed retrofit deliberately stop it leaking, which is good for energy use and removes the ventilation the building was relying on.
The Los Angeles complication is that opening a window is frequently the wrong fix. On a street near a major corridor, or on a day when smoke is sitting over the basin, outdoor air is exactly what you have been trying to keep out. A fresh air ventilation system gives you measured exchange through filtration, so you are no longer choosing between stale air and dirty air.
This does something a standard HVAC system does not — it introduces outdoor air rather than recirculating indoor air:

Tight homes signal an exchange shortfall fairly consistently:
Ventilation is a design job as much as an installation:
Tightness, volume and existing ductwork determine appropriate system size.
Energy recovery and heat recovery ventilators suit different priorities.
Critically important here — placed away from the street side, driveways and exhaust vents.
Intake filtration is specified for local conditions, not to a generic default.
Airflow measured and adjusted so exchange matches the design.
Fresh air ventilation is the component most homeowners have never been offered, and it is often what finally fixes air that never feels right. Purified Air will assess your home and explain whether a system makes sense. Call to schedule a consultation.
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