Hello World! Welcome Friends! Depending on your habits, there’s a chance your home’s indoor air quality is actually worse than the air outside, as hard as that might be to believe. By taking steps to improve the air circulating inside your residence, where you likely spend a great deal of your time, you’re taking steps to maintain a healthy looking home as well as a healthy smelling home.
Keep Chemical Pollutants to a Minimum
If you or anyone else in your home smokes, it’s best to do so outside. When cleaning, try to avoid products with harsh chemicals, those that contain solvents and any with strong fragrances; explore your options with natural, yet effective cleaners like apple cider vinegar. Soldering, paint stripping, rock polishing, sanding and other such activities can fill your home with pollution and pollutants, meaning you’ll want to do them outside or in well-ventilated areas instead.
Ventilate Your Home
Rather than keeping the air conditioner or heater running 24/7, consider opening doors and windows when the weather permits. Proper circulation prevents air from growing stale, and it can go a long way in boosting your overall mood as well. If you live in an area where the air outside is teeming with smog and pollutants, timing is your best friend when it comes to this tip; the early morning or after rush hour traffic is when you should open your doors and windows. Also, investing in a trickle ventilator that purifies the air before it enters your home could be a great investment.
Keep Your Air Conditioner As Clean As Possible
Before the next summer rolls around, have an HVAC professional come out to your home to clean and maintain your air conditioning unit. Throughout your weeks and months of use, get into the habit of cleaning your air conditioning filters. How much you use your unit will determine how often you’ll want to clean your filter. Additionally, investing in reusable air filters or HEPA filters is a great way to save money on the cost of replacing filters as you boost your interior air quality.
Use Plants
There are also several different kinds of plants that help boost your home’s air quality. Specifically, the bamboo palm, English Ivy and snake plant all scrub bothersome pollutants from your interior air. Not only that, but adding a few plants to your home can put you in a peaceful state of mind as well by inviting a bit of nature into your residence.
Take Steps to Keep Your Home Clean
Simply being a neat freak also helps your indoor air quality. Practices such as taking your shoes off at the door to minimize tracking in dirt, placing mats down at your home’s entrances and vacuuming your carpet with HEPA vacuum cleaners all go a long way in keeping your home looking spotless and your air breathable.
If you have allergies, respiratory problems or just want to remain as comfortable and healthy as possible in your home, focus on maintaining good air quality. See how much of a difference the above tips can make.
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My nephew has really bad asthma. So, I want to improve my home’s air quality. It is good to know that I should get my AC unit and ducts cleaned.
The article was really helpful for me. I try to do the maximum of your suggested ways. Most of them are good to clean the air quality of my home. But, I’m thinking to purchase an air purifier. What do you think, how it will be?