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The RGF – Guardian Air

Picking up where the last newsletter left off, I wanted to discuss a great air quality product with which I have direct experience. There are many products and options when it comes to improving your indoor air quality and I would strongly advise you to do your homework before making any decision. Having said that, I can personally attest to the performance of RGF’s Guardian Air.

My experience all started with my cats believe it or not. Actually, they’re really my wife’s and they were part of the package when I married my wife, so I’m saying they are mine as more of a technicality (I’m a dog person if you can’t tell). Anyway, my cats developed a urinary tract infection (yeah, cats!) and they started to go outside of the litter box. Before you know it the entire upstairs bedroom had turned into a litter box.

Besides all of the obvious problems the thing that bothered us the most was the smell. No amount of cleaning could get rid of that smell. In fact, we tried practically every product ever invented to get rid of the smell, but unfortunately at the end of the day nothing worked. In fact, it got so bad that we could smell it downstairs – our whole house was impacted.

One day a colleague of mine recommended the Guardian Air. The product is installed in the duct work and it creates “hydroperoxides” that flow in the air and kill bacteria, mold, viruses, odors, smoke and VOCs in your conditioned air space.

Without getting technical, hydroperoxides are oxidants that have been a part of our environment for billions of years. They are created through the combination of oxygen molecules, water vapor and electro-magnetic energy. RGF Environmental basically developed a way to recreate what happens every day in nature, inside of our home.

When I did my research I was surprised to find out the hydroperoxides generated by the Guardian Air could kill some serious viruses - SARS, Bird Flu, Norwalk (the cruise ship virus), Strep, and E.coli among others.

Now all of this is great, but all I was looking for was a product that killed odors. After I saw the data on tests performed to eliminate odors I thought it was worth a shot. I was especially sold after I learned there was a 90-day, money-back, satisfaction guarantee.

I had the product installed on a Friday and my wife and I were leaving for the weekend. When we returned on Sunday night we were pleasantly surprised to discover that the downstairs no longer smelled. As we slowly tip-toed up the stairs, stopping to smell the air on every step, our excited grew as we continued to breathe fresh air. We were able to make our way to door of the “litter box room” before we could smell anything. After another two day we could barely smell the odor standing inside the room. Simply amazing!

The product has continued to work its magic for the past six months and during that time my wife and I never got sick. We have since recommended the product to other friends who have had odor and mold problems and it has worked every time.

Here is a link to the product - http://www.rgf.com/documents/Guardian_web_doc.pdf. The company has a set of authorized, air conditioning companies that can install the product. If you are interested, please send me an email and I can point you in the right direction.

Have a great weekend,
Brian
A/C Patriot

Next Issue - We are going to discuss air ducts and why they are so critical to the performance of your air conditioning system.

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