Improving Your Indoor Air Quality

Ensuring your home’s indoor air quality is important to maintain home comfort and a healthy living environment. There are many harmful substances that can seep into your home, endangering you and your family. Some of the most common threats are radon gas, carbon monoxide, and molds. All of these things, once present in your home, will circulate via the ventilation system and spread throughout your living space. Thus it is important to have a system of prevention set up and regularly test for these harmful substances to ensure you and your family are not inhaling them for long periods of time if they are present. Thankfully, there are many solutions to these problems.

Radon

Radon is a natural gas that seeps up from the earth into your home, and long exposure has been shown to increase the likelihood of developing lung cancer, second only to smoking. Unfortunately, radon gas is invisible, has no smell, and has no taste; but there are tests that can be done to make sure your home’s radon levels are safe. If your home does test positive for unhealthy levels of radon gas, there are radon cleaning and radon mitigation methods that you can use. If radon gas is a concern for you, our HVAC (heating, ventilation, and air condition) professionals can help by performing radon tests and radon cleaning, filtering the harmful radon gases outside your home where it can dissipate. Also ask about preventative methods to guard against radon gas building up in your home again.

Carbon Monoxide

Carbon monoxide is another deadly gas that has no smell or taste, but, unlike radon, carbon monoxide is released via burning fuels, such as your furnace. Too much exposure results in flu like symptoms and, eventually, death. One of the easiest ways to know if you are at risk is to install carbon monoxide detectors over any potential hotspots like your furnace and kitchen. Bedrooms are also good places to have detectors, so you do not spend a whole night unconsciously breathing in deadly gases. During your regular HVAC check-ups, ask our specialists to look for any carbon monoxide leaks, so they can be repaired before any damage is done. If your carbon monoxide detectors are kept in working order and you actively prevent any carbon monoxide leaks, your indoor air quality will have much higher odds of being free of this dangerous gas, and knowing that will surely increase your home comfort and peace of mind.

Mold and Allergens

Molds have become an increasing problem in modern homes, especially when humidity builds up in places like bathrooms, where mold can grow easily. Furnace filter changes are effective at reducing the amount of mold and other allergens circulating through your ventilation system. You might also want to consider installing air exchangers in parts of your home that produces a lot of humidity in order to reduce the amount of moisture in those areas. Duct cleaning—a service our technicians can provide—is another method to improve your indoor air quality. The cleaner your air, the healthier you will be, and the healthier you are, the more home comfort you will experience.