Our conscientiously selected plants literally eat airborne particles PM1, PM2.5 & PM10. Our plants also effectively remove common indoor pollutants such as Trichloroethylene, Formaldehyde, Benzene, Xylene and Ammonia. They also reduce the ambient airborne concentration of Nitrogen Dioxide by 35%.

Plants do more than remove chemicals – indoor plants increase oxygen levels in the air. This increased oxygen contributes a lot to our well-being. By increasing oxygen levels, you can help your body to fight off the pathogenic viruses and bacteria that are responsible for most illnesses. It will also help to strengthen your immune system. This is turn will help your body to fight off any disease-causing invaders.

Living walls reduce stress. It’s been proven that spending time around nature increases people’s feelings of energy and has an overall positive effect on their mental health. Researchers concluded that working with plants seriously reduces both physiological and phycological stress levels.

Experts from Exeter University conducted a study on 350 visitors at the recent Chelsea Flower Fair. Accordingly, participants were asked to evaluate their creativity, happiness and labor productivity in four different designed work environments in a series of 90 trials. The results showed that with those working near living walls productivity increased by 38%, creativity increased by 45% and happiness increased by 47%. Experts believe their findings demonstrate that indoor living walls not only improve mood but are also essential to increase efficiency in the business environment.

A living wall acts as a sound absorbing barrier, they absorb 41% more sound than walls and this results in a reduction of up to 8 dB. Thus, the environment becomes much quieter, both inside and outside the building, with noise levels similar to those found in nature.

Plants absorb sunlight, 50% is absorbed and 30% reflected. This creates a cooler and more pleasant climate during summertime. For the indoor climate, this means that 33% less air conditioning is required, which in turn means energy savings. In winter bills are lowered due to the plants adding humidity to the room. Plants release moisture into the air through the process of transpiration, which is when moisture evaporates from the leaves. Oddly this cools a room in Summer and warms it in winter as the plants work to balance the ambient temperature around them.

The auto-feed system is available as an add-on unit and can be used at the bottom of each stacking column. By adding this feature product you will vastly increase the length of time between filling the system with water. GREENWALLS systems usually last 3 weeks between filling up the water in each tray, but with the auto-feed system you will be adding an extra water supply tank that is faster to fill and increases water top-up times to an average of once every 12 weeks. The auto-feed system uses a smart CPU system to control the water supply to each individual tray in the column above, and when required it will use the built-in silent water pump to automatically top up the water in each tray above. When the water storage tank is near empty it will then let you know that it requires a top-up by sounding a single beep once every minuet. At that point you can use the fast fill water pressure bottle (supplied with every auto-feed kit) to quickly fill the auto-feed water tank.

Standard GREENWALLS kits come with a 9v battery operated water top-up indicator system - this system tells you when the water is low (beeps once per minuet) and also tells you when the water is full (beeps 3 times).

When adding the auto-feed water tank to the bottom of your GREENWALLS column the system will then require plugging in. The auto-feed kit uses very little power and only switches on when the system asks the pump to automatically fill up the trays above. The auto-feed system plugs into a standard wall socket but runs on an ultra-low 12V supply and uses an average of £0.15 per month to run at current UK energy prices.