Sustainable healthy indoor air quality refers to maintaining a pollutant-free environment. Climate change is impacting our environment and indoor air quality. How do you know the air you are breathing is healthy without testing it? Let Detail Associates test your home or office’s indoor air quality. Sustainable healthy indoor air quality is just a phone call away.
Poor indoor air quality can lead to various health issues, including respiratory problems, allergies, and other illnesses. In light of climate change achieving sustainable healthy indoor air quality involves several key elements:
- Source Control: identify, eliminate, or reduce unwanted, irritating indoor air pollutants. Such as smoking, cooking, cleaning aerosols, air fresheners and even candles.
- Proper Ventilation: Adequate ventilation is crucial to maintain good indoor air quality. Proper ventilation allows for the exchange of indoor and outdoor air. Opening windows when possible and using ventilators will improve indoor air quality while conserving energy.
- Air Purification: Air purifiers with HEPA filters can be useful in removing airborne particles and pollutants, such as dust, mold spores, and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) found in building materials and paint.
- Humidity Control: Maintaining proper indoor humidity levels (ideally between 30% to 50%) is crucial in preventing mold growth and maintaining good indoor air quality.
- Natural and Eco-friendly Materials: When constructing or renovating a building, opt for natural and eco-friendly materials.
- Regular Maintenance: Regularly clean and maintain HVAC systems, air filters, and air purifiers to ensure they function optimally and continue to improve indoor air quality.
- Other Factors to Consider: minimize carpets, clean regularly, collect houseplants, change air filters regularly, monitor your carbon dioxide, check for radon, and reduce pesticides.
Bergen County is one of the wealthiest counties in NJ, but having wealth cannot guarantee health. Wealth can provide better access to healthcare, nutrition, education and living conditions, however the latter is the most important to an overall good quality of life. Help us help you.
Detail Associates is fully licensed and insured to test the air quality of your home or business. Whether you have an unknown smell, something is making you sick, or you just want to have a baseline evaluation to see if your home or business measures up, contact us. We are conveniently located in the Englewood area servicing all the adjacent counties and Manhattan as well.