Everything You Must Know About HEPA Filters
There is no denying that Oreck makes some of the best vacuums out there. With their light weight, powerful suctioning capabilities and easy maneuverability, Oreck holds nothing back in making a vacuum that exceeds usual standards of quality and durability. Through their high performance, Oreck only uses the best, top-of-the-line tools and parts. One in particular is the HEPA filter that is featured in every Oreck vacuum.
What Is a HEPA Filter?
One of the best things you can do to help keep your allergies at bay is to use an air purifier or vacuum cleaner that uses a HEPA filter. HEPA stands for High Efficiency Particular Air and it seeks to make your air as particle and allergen free as possible.
In order for a filter to truly be a HEPA, it must remove 99.7 percent of all particles in the air. A HEPA filter is so powerful and effective that if every particle was .03 microns in size, the filter would still be able to remove 99.7 percent of particles.
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Through its powerful and reliable filtration and its ability to remove even the smallest of particles like pet dander and pollens, Oreck only trust HEPA filters to be used in their vacuums. While other companies will try and use filtration systems that claim “HEPA-like” or “HEPA quality,” you only get the benefits of a HEPA filter if it is labeled “True HEPA,” “Certified HEPA” or “Absolute HEPA.”
All HEPA filters are tested to meet strict standards such as the EN 1822 test, a two part test that test a filters ability to not only filter the smallest objects, but the quantity as well. If a filter is able to maintain 99.7 percent filtration under the worst-case scenario, then it is a filter that delivers true HEPA performance.
How Can It Benefit Your Health?
Through its ability to filter small, microscopic particles, a HEPA filter cleans your air of possible allergens to make sure you are breathing in nothing but fresh, particle-free air. By keeping particles and allergens out of your air, you are greatly reducing your chances to develop many lung related issues such as: asthma, actuate respiratory symptoms, respiratory infections, bronchitis, shortness of breath and lung cancer.
As health being one of Oreck’s main priorities, there can be no other option in choosing a filter other than a HEPA. From Oreck’s ability to powerfully suction and clean, its incredible light weight and unparalleled maneuverability and, of course, its top-of-the-line HEPA filter, there is no other vacuum as complete as an Oreck.
Ben Strause is a home improvement writer for Fusion 360, an SEO and content marketing agency. Information provided by Shop Oreck. Follow on Twitter.
