• Classrooms - Lower absenteeism, raise test scores and keep students and teachers healthier.

• Basement Classrooms - Any school with basement classrooms or offices has air quality issues.
• Special Education Classrooms - Reduce odor issues common with these students, and keep special education teachers from getting sick. Qualified substitute teachers are hard to find for Special Education Classrooms.
• Library, Cafeteria, Office, Nurses Stations and Hallways - Reduce allergens, dust and odors.
• Computer Rooms, Music Rooms, Activity Rooms, Therapy Rooms - reduces dust and allergens.
• Teachers' Lounge - Reduce allergens and food odors from lunches.
• Locker Rooms - reduce odors in locker rooms, capture allergens, bacteria and germs.
• Day-care and Pre-school Rooms - Allergens, dust, pollen, mold, dander and odors.

Purifans are ideal for any room you want more comfortable airflow while reducing allergens, mold, dust and odors. Purifans are easy to install and can be moved to new buildings. We even have floor models that stand on a pole to allow installation in difficult areas where ceiling access may be difficult or ceilings may be real high.

 

Purifan offer many benefits and pay for themselves quickly in any school.  When 20 to 30 people arrive in a 700 to 900 square foot classroom, they bring in millions of allergen particles on their clothes, skin,  hair and shoes. These particles also arrive in the air that is pumped into the classroom.  Every classroom has a certain amount of air, and every time a student breathes in and exhales, the contagious illnesses that child has are floating on particles suspended in the air for all of the other healthy students to inhale.  Purifans clean all the air in a classroom every 90 seconds reducing allergen triggers and this also reduces the transfer mechanism that spreads contagious illnesses.  The people sharing the air in the room will stay healthier if the air is filtered 40 times per hour with a pair of Purifans. Below are just a few of the reasons schools install Purifans.

• Children have fewer missed sick days from allergies and asthma.  Filter air also reduces the spread of common colds, flu and contagious disease. Some schools reduced absenteeism by 50% to 61%.
• Children feel better in the classroom, with less coughing and allergy symptoms
• Children learn better and score higher on standardized tests.
• Some children have reported they don't need to take as much allergy medicines or use inhalers after Purifans are installed.  Many allergy medicines have many side effects that lower alertness and the ability to learn.  In one school inhaler use dropped by 70%.
• Teachers stay healthier, miss fewer sick days and need less allergy medicine.  Students do better with the same teacher and fewer substitute teachers.  Schools have reported 50% fewer sick days.
• Fewer sick days and illnesses means lower health care costs for students and teachers.  Parents' employers have to pay for fewer personal days for parents to stay home with sick children.  In one school the average sick days per school year dropped from 18 to 7, and employers save a fortune on personal leave costs, lost work costs and health care expenses.  Schools also have lower substitute teacher costs.

School Testimonials

  

By my second year in this building, I was receiving de-sensitizing shots twice a week for dust, mites, mold and mildew.  I had numerous ear and respiratory infections.  My husband and children began to encourage me to find another job.  Being stubborn, and loving this school, I decided to give it one more year.  I purchased two HEPA air-cleaners at the local hardware store, and completely eliminated chalk usage in the room.  It did help...but certainly wasn't a cure-all.

 

Last year, a Purifan air filtering system was installed in my classroom.  WOW!  I felt the difference almost immediately.  The room smelled better.  The room stayed cleaner.  Not one child in my class needed to use an inhaler during school hours the entire year.  Absences from respiratory illness were minimal.  I was not sick all year!

 

                        Glenna Weir

                        Pre-K Teacher - Blessed Sacrament, Wichita, KS

 

I have one little boy with chronic respiratory problems.  At the beginning of the year, he was missing a lot of school.  I myself was having horrendous problems with allergies.  I'd spend around $200 on antibiotics just for the infections.  Heaven knows what my allergy medicine used to cost my insurance company!  You could see the dust in the air and on all the surfaces.  It was awful.  On the desktops, computers, bookcases - you could feel that kind of grimy, gritty dirt.  Even when the weather was nice, I'd still have to keep my door closed and run the air conditioning because of my allergies.  After the school installed a Purifan Clean Air System, the dust in the air?  The grim on the desktops?  We don't have that anymore.  The boy with bronchitis?  He hasn't missed a day since the Purifans were installed.  Not one day.

 

                        Sheri Eberth

                        David Brewer Elementary School, Leavenworth, Kansas

 

Our building was built in 1943, You would not believe how much dust was in that classroom!  A lot of my students suffer from allergies, and so do I.  On days with high pollen counts, everything would be covered in no time.  And many of us, including me, were miserable.  I cleaned every surface in the classroom during Spring Break, and that week they installed the Purifan Clean Air System in my classroom.  Once the systems were up, we kept them running 24/7.  We'd been back from break about a week when it occurred to me:  Hey, there's no dust on this television!  I looked around, and there was no dust anywhere.  Previously, dust had accumulated virtually everywhere within just a day or two.  There was a difference that not only could you feel, but you could see.

 

After the Purifans were installed a parent was visiting my classroom, and asked me about the unique-looking fans.  I explained how they worked and the mother said, "So that’s what happened!  Daniel was having a difficult time with his asthma this year, but in just the last month, he hasn’t had to take his albuterol a single time."  I also had a female student who had continually complained of headaches and not feeling well.  Since Purifans came along, her complaints have gone away.

                        Fourth Grade - Howard Wilson Elementary, Leavenworth, Kansas

 

Our absentee rate hovered near 10 percent.  Under the No Child Left Behind mandate, we are required to maintain attendance at 90 percent or above. Anything we can do to help keep our children healthy and in class is a plus for everyone.  We installed on Purifan Clean Air System in one classroom.  The difference is more than a visible lack of surface dust.  Students are breathing much easier now.  And some have actually gone off of medication.  We are so excited with the results we installed 54 Purifans throughout our entire school.

                       

                        Jan Cox, Principal

                        Howard Wilson Elementary, Leavenworth, Kansas

 

 

This year a Purifan was installed in my classroom as a test room to evaluate its effectiveness.  We have been extremely pleased for several reasons.  The system is very quiet and provides a learning environment that is conducive to student achievement.  Our room has stayed much cleaner with less dust.  It is cooler in the hot months and warmer in the cold months.  We maintain an average temperature of 73 degrees.  We are puppy raisers for the C.A.R.E.S. program and have a dog in the classroom so the Purifan is great for eliminating smells and pet hair.

 

My students have said:

• It is not distracting.
• I have not been sick once this year.
• It is really quiet.
• My allergies are not so bad.
• I hardly ever sneeze.
• My coughing is really better this year.
• My Asthma is not affected in the classroom.
• My Asthma now feels better at school than in my home.

Our heating and air-conditioning system brings in and uses outside air which can be rather humid at times.  The Purifan helps to eliminate the humid conditions and make our air clean and fresh.  The quality of our air is wonderful; the Purifan does an excellent job!  I would highly recommend the Purifan for all classrooms.

 

                        Cathy Crowell, 4^th Grade Teacher

"Just a note to tell you how much we use and appreciate the Purifan that you installed in our facility.  It is very important to us that we offer our children an environment that is as free of particles and dust, as we can manage.  We have tried several other methods to achieve this, but nothing we have tried, so far, matches the performance of your remarkable fan. 

 

Our staff asked me to tell you that they particularly like the quietness of the system.  It is very important in a learning environment like ours, that we keep background noises to a minimum. 

 

I would certainly recommend this filtration system to other schools and home systems in the area"

 

                        Carol Eklund

                        Preschool Director

                        Montessori Children's House, Phoenix, AZ