People spend 90% of their time indoors, but, according to the EPA, indoor air has concentrations of pollutants that are between 2 and 5 times as high as outdoor air. Homeowners often think of their homes as a place to escape pollution, allergens, and volatile organic compounds, but if you aren’t careful, your home can actually be the primary cause of poor health resulting from low indoor air quality (IAQ).
What Are the Symptoms of Poor Indoor Air Quality?
You could have poor IAQ and not even realize it! Acceptable indoor air quality levels will improve home comfort, and can relieve you of nagging health issues that you may not have even connected to your home’s air! If you or members of your family are experiencing any of the following, it could be due to the air in your home:
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Irritation of the eyes, nose, and throat
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Headaches
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Dizziness
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Fatigue
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Allergy-like symptoms
Long-term exposure to poor IAQ, over the course of years, can be even worse, with effects like respiratory disease, heart disease, or even cancer.
What Are the Causes of Poor Indoor Air Quality?
There are many sources of indoor air pollution, including:
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Mold and moisture
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Radon
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Tobacco smoke
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Pesticides
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Pets
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Asbestos
How Can I Improve Indoor Air Quality?
If you’ve been looking around online for ways to increase your IAQ, it’s likely you’ve come across some dubious claims. Plants don’t help indoor air quality, at least not in the practical way most homeowners are looking for (you’d need far more plants than is feasible in order to make a noticeable difference). Beeswax candles, which some companies market as releasing negative ions that will purify your home’s air, will not create healthy indoor air. Neither will essential oils.
Luckily, Princeton Air has a number of real IAQ solutions for your house that will make a verifiable difference in your home’s air quality.
Healthy Home Services from Princeton Air
Through mold and indoor air quality testing with advanced AirAdvice technology, we can help determine just how healthy your air is, looking for things like humidity, carbon dioxide (CO2) and carbon monoxide (CO) levels, and any particulates like dust or pollen and VOCs that could be circulating in your home.
Whole-house energy recovery ventilation systems, or ERVs, can freshen the air in your home without having any significant effect on your heating and cooling systems.
Installing an air purification system or a HEPA filtration system can remove contaminants and pollutants from your air.
Your home’s ductwork system could likely also benefit from duct cleaning services that will remove dust, debris, mold, and pollen that has built up over time.
Princeton Air Knows Your Indoor Air Quality Is Important
If you believe you have mold in your bathroom or are looking for air duct cleaning near you to make your Levittown, Edison, or Freehold Township home more comfortable and healthy, reach out to Princeton Air. Instead of recommending indoor plants to improve your air quality, we’ll offer actual services to test your indoor air, remove the mold in your basement, and set up central air conditioner duct cleaning.
