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What an aqi0 install actually looks like — exterior grille, interior diffuser, balcony placement, façade integration. Photos from real Delhi NCR homes.
A fresh air system installation is mostly invisible by design. The unit sits in a utility area, service balcony, or behind a wall, with a duct running into the rooms you want ventilated and an external grille on the outside wall where filtered outdoor air enters. The photos above show how this looks in practice across different home types in Gurugram and South Delhi.
On the outside — where filtered air enters
The outdoor side of every aqi0 install is a small grille on an exterior wall — typically near the kitchen utility, service balcony, or bedroom external wall. The grille is the only externally visible part of the system; the rest sits inside the unit and ducting behind it. Placement is chosen during the site survey to be unobtrusive while drawing from the cleanest possible outdoor-air pocket.
Service balcony — the most common placement
The service balcony is our default placement recommendation. The unit sits outside the primary living space, the duct runs through the wall into the home, and noise stays well below the threshold of anything you’d hear from inside the room. In high-rise Gurugram apartments, balconies offer a cleaner intake than ground-floor street-side mounting.
Inside the home — the diffuser
The indoor end of the duct terminates in a diffuser. We typically place it in a circulation space — corridor, living room, or main bedroom — so filtered air spreads across the home. Positive pressure does the rest: the home stays at +10 to +25 Pa above outdoor, and stale air exits through natural gaps around doors and windows.
Modern interior integration
Even where the unit can’t sit fully outside the living space, the install can be tucked behind cabinetry, into a niche, or along the upper edge of a utility wall. The unit dimensions (~14” W × 17” H × 20” D) and the standard 10” circular duct opening keep the footprint small enough to integrate with most interior design.
The full façade view
Eaves-level or service-area mounting on the exterior. The grille is louvered to keep rain and insects out while letting filtered intake air through. Most installs are visible only if you know to look — and even then, blend with standard utility/AC routing on Indian apartment façades.
On-site maintenance — the AMC visit
Every 45 days in peak season (October–February), every 60–90 days the rest of the year, a technician from the aqi0 team replaces the H13 HEPA filter, cleans the unit internally, and measures indoor PM2.5 and CO₂ before and after. The whole visit takes around 20 minutes. Full filter change cadence →
What you don’t see in these photos
- Ducting runs behind walls or above ceilings in most installs — invisible from inside the room
- Electrical connection to a 6 A plug point, sometimes routed by an electrician on install day
- WiFi monitor sits separately in the home, paired during install — see the AQI monitor section on the product page
- Toughened-glass cutting (when needed) — handled by your toughened-glass vendor before our install day. We refer a Manesar-based vendor if you don’t have one
See where we’ve installed
We have installations across Gurugram — including DLF Garden Estate (6 homes), Park View City, Emaar Palm Drive, DLF Aralias, and Raheja Atlantis (where we also installed in the community gym). Browse our Delhi NCR hub for the full map.
Get a site survey
Want to see what an install would look like in your home? Call +91 96676 72740 or WhatsApp wa.me/919667672740. Site survey is free, no obligation, takes 30–45 minutes, and includes a live PM2.5 and CO₂ measurement with our calibrated monitor.