Fresh air makes your house a pleasant place to be in. Your air passages stay clear, which is good for your health and overall well-being. A supply of fresh, unpolluted oxygen keeps your mind alert and your tissues energized.
But how do you maintain effective ventilation when there are so many contaminants in the air, and when our airtight doors and windows keep sealing them in?
Here are a few tips for improving the air quality in your home.
Keep smoke away from your house
Avoiding indoor smoke is a great way to improve air quality and keep the house clean. Sources of household smoke vary. Indoor wood heaters and furnaces can billow if the wood is still wet, so make sure your logs, pellets, or charcoal are completely dry before you set them alight.
Discourage residents and guests from smoking cigarettes, cigars, pipes, or bongs inside the house. If they must, have a designated smoking section in the porch or balcony. You should also invest in smoke and carbon dioxide detectors.
Keep humidity low
High humidity and high temperatures are the ideal conditions for breeding dust mites. These dust mites greatly reduce air quality and may cause your dust allergies to flare up.
The biggest contributors to a spike in humidity are cooking, taking a bath or using a tumble drier. It is advisable to keep the humidity in your house below 50 percent, which is the point where dust mites begin to die. Investing in a climate control feature in your house is therefore a good idea.
It will measure, record, and regulate your indoor levels of water vapor.
Clean floors and surfaces
Regularly cleaning tables, walls, counters, and other surfaces will keep dust from accumulating. The best method is to combine dusting, mopping, and vacuuming.
Remember that as you clean, more dust gets blown into the air and spreads around, so you need to maintain your cleaning routine. Get a vacuum cleaner with a HEPA filter. This helps you control allergens like dust mites, pollen and pet fur.
Bring the outdoors, indoors
Another way to improve the air quality in your home is to invest in an air filtration system. Energy-efficient models don’t just clean the air. They recycle it as well, circulating it around the house to keep your home fresh.
The type of filtration system you get will depend on the size and style of your house, so call in a specialist to ensure you get the right air ducts, motors, and fans.
Get house plants
This study conducted by NASA in 1989 found that house plants can help you clear dangerous substances from the house.
The right indoor plants – like peace lilies, snake plants, and chrysanthemums – are great at getting rid of formaldehyde and other toxins. Formaldehyde can be found in certain bedding and upholstered furniture.
Raising your home’s oxygen levels doesn’t have to be difficult. Avoid all kinds of smoke, install an anti-humidity and filtration systems, keep your surfaces dust-free, and nurture your house plants.
It’s that easy!
Worried about how clean the air really is in your home? Call Spotless Ducts and we’ll come out and see what you got going on.