Why Your Home’s Air Quality Matters
Your home’s indoor air quality can have a significant impact on your family’s health. Indoor air contaminants may trigger reactions in people with allergies, asthma, or other respiratory conditions, and there might even be harmful substances like mold spores floating around your home. Fortunately, there are many ways to improve indoor air quality. Here are five of the easiest strategies for keeping your home’s air fresh and clean.
1. Vacuum Often to Improve Indoor Air Quality
Regular vacuuming is an effective way to improve indoor air quality. Many of the pollutants, such as dust and animal dander, are reduced by vacuuming often with a HEPA filter vacuum. Vacuum rugs and carpeting as they trap dust and dander in the fibers. Another option is to ditch wall-to-wall carpeting in your house and replace it with hard flooring.
2. Choose Houseplants That Purify Air
As long as you don’t over-water houseplants, many species purify the air. Learn about which plants remove harmful toxins from the environment and place a few of these plants around your home.
3. Fans Circulate Indoor Air
Indoor fans are another great way to improve air quality by increasing circulation, especially if your house isn’t equipped with a central air conditioning system. For best results, use fans in the largest rooms in the house and any rooms that don’t have windows. Use the ventilation fans in your kitchen to remove moisture, smoke, and cooking fumes.
4. Improve Indoor Air With Regular Duct Cleaning
If you have central AC, schedule an air duct cleaning to clear out trapped dust and other particles. When you don’t have the ducts cleaned, your system continues to circulate these particles throughout your home, contributing to poor air quality. Change the HVAC filter regularly for healthier indoor air.
5. Use Dehumidifiers to Improve Indoor Air Quality
Mold spores can’t grow without sufficient moisture, so placing dehumidifiers in damp areas of your home will improve the air indoors. Bathrooms can also be a problem area because of the water. Mold growth on shower walls and around tubs is common in bathrooms. The basement is another area that collects a lot of moisture in many homes, so place a dehumidifier downstairs, too.
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