TYLER, Texas (August 18, 2009) — Not only is Laura Lawson’s Shawnee, Kan. home more comfortable, but her family is breathing easier thanks to an American Standard Heating & Air Conditioning home comfort online giveaway. As the giveaway winner, Lawson received a new heating and cooling system from McIntosh Heating & Cooling of Independence, Mo., with support from authorized distributor O’Connor Company.

“The entire process was great and the team from McIntosh Heating & Cooling was very professional, super-friendly and bent over backwards to accommodate my requests,” said Lawson. “Within 24 hours of the installation, we noticed a huge difference in cooling quality and overall comfort level of our home.”

As a part of her prize package and overall home comfort system, Lawson also received an American Standard AccuClean™ whole-home air filtration system, which she’s hoping will relieve some of her son’s asthma symptoms due to the system’s ability to remove up to 99.98 percent of allergens and airborne particles from indoor filtered air.

The online giveaway was a part of a word-of-mouth campaign conducted by American Standard Heating & Air Conditioning that targeted moms in the Kansas City area. Moms were invited to visit a special Web site (http://www.momcentral.com/american-standard-heating-air-conditioning/american-standard-heating-air-conditioning-kc) to learn more about combating asthma and allergies and flu prevention, among other topics. The site also boasted home comfort tips from American Standard Heating & Air Conditioning spokesperson and host of public television’s “Hannah, Help Me!” series, Hannah Keeley. In addition, the site offered an online chat room for local moms to share and discuss their own home comfort solutions.

Lawson was selected at random, among all the moms who registered online for the home comfort giveaway, to receive the grand prize valued at $15,000, which included American Standard Heating & Air Conditioning equipment, including the AccuClean system, a 10-year parts and labor warranty and installation from McIntosh Heating & Cooling.

The giveaway was designed to help Kansas City-area families make their homes cleaner and more comfortable. Part of the solution is the American Standard AccuClean whole-home air filtration system, which uses patented air cleaning technology to eliminate allergens and particles you don’t want in your home, such as dust, pollen, bacteria, pet dander, mold spores, smoke and the flu virus. American Standard AccuClean is 100 times more effective than the standard 1-inch filter found in most home central systems, removing up to 99.98 percent of airborne particles and more than 99 percent of the influenza A (also known as the common flu), B and C viruses as well as avian and swine influenza from the filtered air your family breathes.