Indoor Air Quality Services, Georgetown TX
Assessment & Purification Systems
Evaluate your home's air quality, identify HVAC-related IAQ problems, and recommend targeted solutions.
Install whole-home air purification systems integrated with your HVAC for whole-house air treatment.
Install UV germicidal lights in the air handler to kill bacteria, mold, and viruses on the evaporator coil and in airflow.
Install bipolar ionization or oxidizing purifiers for active air treatment throughout the duct system.
Install HEPA media filter cabinets for hospital-grade filtration, critical for allergy sufferers during Georgetown cedar season.
Retrofit existing air handlers to accept 4-5 inch media filters for dramatically improved filtration over standard 1-inch filters.
Repair or service electronic air cleaners, clean collection cells, test ionizer wires, and verify performance.
Upgrade from standard filter slots to high-performance filtration, more effective and often more convenient.
Humidity Control
Install a dedicated whole-house dehumidifier for Georgetown's humid summers, standalone or integrated with HVAC.
Install bypass, fan-powered, or steam humidifiers for Georgetown's dry winter months.
Replace evaporator pads in bypass and fan-powered humidifiers, annual replacement required for proper performance.
Clean steam canisters, replace electrodes, and service steam humidifiers for reliable winter operation.
Install bypass humidifiers connected to the supply and return plenums for whole-home humidification.
Diagnose and correct humidity problems, too high in summer, too low in winter, through equipment and system adjustments.
Address uneven humidity between floors and zones through system tuning and supplemental equipment.
Comprehensive service to stabilize temperature and humidity for consistent year-round comfort.
Odor, Mold & Biological Treatment
Identify and eliminate HVAC-related odors, musty smells, burning odors, and chemical odors with specific mechanical causes.
Install algaecide tablet dispensers in drain pans to prevent biological growth, particularly effective in Georgetown's heat.
Treat dirty sock syndrome, musty odor when the system starts, caused by microbial growth on evaporator coils.
Identify and treat mold growth in HVAC ductwork and air handlers, address the moisture source causing growth.
Georgetown IAQ, What's Different Here
Georgetown has three distinct IAQ seasons: cedar fever season (December-March) with massive pollen loads that clog filters and enter homes; summer humidity season (May-September) where AC systems that over-cool can create condensation and mold conditions; and the shoulder seasons where doors and windows open and outdoor allergens enter. HEPA filtration during cedar season and proper dehumidification in summer address the most impactful IAQ problems for most Georgetown families.
Sizing a Dehumidifier Correctly for Your Home
A whole-house dehumidifier is a distinct piece of equipment from your air conditioning system, even though both remove moisture from indoor air. Your AC dehumidifies incidentally, as a byproduct of the cooling process, which means it only removes moisture while it's actively running to satisfy a temperature call. A dedicated whole-house dehumidifier runs independently on its own humidistat, continuing to remove moisture even during mild weather when the AC barely runs, which is exactly the scenario where humidity problems tend to show up most, since there's plenty of moisture in the air but not enough cooling demand to trigger the AC's incidental dehumidification.
Correct sizing is based on pints of moisture removed per day under standardized AHAM test conditions, calculated against your home's square footage and its moisture load category, ranging from normal to damp, very damp, or wet, based on factors like how many people live in the home, whether there's a basement or crawlspace, and how much outdoor humidity infiltrates through the building envelope. Georgetown's climate pushes most homes toward the damp to very damp category during summer months given the region's humidity levels, which means proper sizing here usually calls for more capacity than the same square footage would need in a drier climate.
Installation for a ducted whole-house unit ties into your existing return ductwork to pull moist air in, and typically into a dedicated supply run or the main supply trunk to distribute dehumidified air back through the house, independent of the AC's own coil and blower cycle. The unit needs its own condensate drain line, since it generates its own moisture removal separate from what your AC coil is already draining, and its own humidistat control, set to maintain a target relative humidity, typically in the 45 to 55 percent range, regardless of what the thermostat is doing.
We also verify the unit's placement gives it access to sufficient return air volume to actually treat the whole house rather than just the area immediately around the mechanical closet, and confirm electrical capacity for the unit's compressor, since undersizing either the airflow path or the electrical circuit results in a dehumidifier that can't reach its rated capacity regardless of how correctly it was sized on paper for the home's square footage.
Whole House Dehumidifier Questions
Improve Your Georgetown Home's Air Quality
Allergies, musty odors, or humidity problems, we find and fix the mechanical cause.