Air Quality At Home

We spend a lot of time in our homes. From watching TV and eating, to sleeping or taking in a good book, most people spend the vast majority of their lives inside the home. But we rarely consider the air quality inside our homes, and how our health might be affected by the indoor air pollution to which our lungs are subjected. How dirty is the air we’re breathing? How much are our lungs and bodies actually suffering because of the invisible indoor air pollutants we inhale from inside our own homes? There are no exact answers to the questions posed above, but with 50 million children being affected by allergies and 9 million by asthma, there is reason for concern and reason to take precautions. An ever increasing number of children and adults are being diagnosed with these conditions…and still millions more are affected by other conditions related to the indoor air quality of their homes.

There are many new technologies that can provide you with a degree of air quality control. If you live in small house or in an apartment where you don’t have the ability to update your house filter, portable air cleaners and purifiers may be the answer for you. They work great at cleaning the air in a small space or a single room, but they don’t have the capacity to clean the air in your entire house. If you are a homeowner and have access to your home heating and air conditioning units there are several more options for obtaining clean indoor air. You could invest in a whole house air cleaner, which is the most effective method of purifying your home's air. You could also switch out your furnace filter for a pleated furnace filter, which offers much better protection against dust and other airborne particulate.

There are several other inexpensive products on the market that can improve the indoor air quality of your home. If you’re interested in more products that will improve your air quality control a good place to start would be Indoor Air Quality Source.