Do you think the air inside your home is cleaner than the air outside?
Volatile organic compounds, dust mites, fire-retardants, and formaldehyde—your indoor air may just be more polluted than the stuff you breathe outside. Fumes off-gassed by furniture, paint and building materials, chemicals from household cleaning products and fragrances, combustion devises, dust, bacteria and mold, these are all common culprits of poor home air quality.
Considering we spend most of our time indoors, using an air quality monitor in our home is essential. Here are some simple solutions to improve your home air quality—many of which are quick, easy and affordable.
- Increased ventilation – This is the most basic way to improve your indoor air quality. Increased ventilation allows the toxic pollutants inside the house to air out. Opening your windows twice a day is a good practice to reduce the level of air pollutants in your home.
- Quit indoor smoking – Cigarette smoke contains over 4,000 chemicals, including 43 known cancer-causing compounds. Indoor smoking should be stopped altogether and smokers should be advised to smoke outside for cleaner air.
- Add houseplants – Plants can reduce the level of formaldehyde in your home. Adding more houseplants can help in protection against toxic pollutants.
- Use non-toxic household products – Air quality monitors are useful in determining the harmful toxins emitted from household products like paints, hobby supplies, perfumes, old plywood etc. These products emit a large amount of VOCs and are a major air pollutant. Use of household products with a lower level of VOCs can further reduce their level in your home.
- Chose hard surface floors instead of carpets – Clean house is the key to clean air. Pollutants and toxins live and rest in the fibers of a carpet, long after they may have been introduced. Although you may be keeping your home well ventilated and thoroughly clean elsewhere, carpets are a major source of lingering, harmful spores that are incredibly harmful to health. On the other hand, surface floors are very easy to clean.
- Monitor humidity level – With air quality monitors, you can monitor the humidity of a given area and ensure that no molds grow there. Ideally, a humidity of 30 to 50% will help to prevent the build-up of molds, which grow readily in areas in higher humidity.
- Monitor the air inside your home – Indoor air quality monitoring will help you better understand the pollution level and the health risks involved.
Air quality monitoring in your home helps you see the invisible and detect the level of pollution in your home. Brands link Kaiterra & uHoo make smart air quality monitors that are essential to maintain a healthy home environment. These indoor monitors give an accurate, fast and reliable detection of your indoor air quality which helps you in taking immediate measures to improve the air quality in your home and also take precautions while breathing the polluted air.
