Indoor Air Quality
The Lone Star State is known for its wonderful weather and abundance of enjoyable outdoor activities. Even with all of these fun things to do outside, you probably spend the majority of your time indoors.
Your home’s where you eat, spend time with your family, and relax after a long day’s work, and you want to be breathing the highest-quality air possible when you’re there.
The outdoors are great but when you come inside you understandably want to leave the dust, allergens, and pollutants to the outdoors and keep those from reducing your indoor air quality.
Homes and Workplaces Impacted
- Microbial contaminants like mold and bacteria can negatively affect your sleep. You might also be negatively affected by poor air quality in the workplace related to poor ventilation.
- Workplaces are especially prone to certain kinds of problems related to things like mold in the ducts of HVAC systems, poor ventilation, and ozone gas as a byproduct of certain office equipment.
- The biggest issue with indoor air quality in residential and commercial settings is actually right under your nose, so to speak. Can you guess what it is? A lack of adequate fresh air! Believe it or not, that’s been associated with quite a lot of cases of sick building syndrome (SBS).
- Wilson’s can come to your home or workplace and check for dozens of different kinds of the most common indoor air contaminants.
- Mold, dust, radon, volatile organic compounds, and all kinds of particulate matter will show up in the indoor air quality testing done by Wilson’s Heat & Air.
- The end goal is looking into everything that positively and negatively affects your indoor air quality and checking to see that your ventilation is improving your indoor air quality as much as possible.
At Wilson’s Heat & Air the aim is to provide timely service at the lowest possible price and improve your air quality as much as possible so that being indoors is truly relaxing and rejuvenating.
Filters
Changing your filters in a forced-air heating system, for instance, is one of those surefire ways that Wilson’s Heating & Air can improve your indoor air quality.
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If you go too long without changing your filters, then airborne irritants wind up getting recirculated throughout your entire home, where they might worsen allergies or cause other problems.
The thing to do is use something like an electrostatic filter to trap the airborne irritants like dust circulating through your heating system before it can get recirculated and cause damage.
Electrostatic filters basically use static electricity and an interior network of fibers to trap particles and let air pass through. These filters are pretty handy because they improve the longevity of your heating system, improve your indoor air quality, and allow you to simply wash away all of the airborne irritants and use the filter again.
Humidifiers
Humidifiers work to improve the moisture levels in your home or workplace. Point-of-use humidifiers are the most common kind used by
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homeowners to increase the comfort in a particular room or part of the home.
Other humidifiers work with the furnace in your home or workplace (bypass system) or function as fan-operated independent humidifiers in order to get moisture directly into the ducts networked throughout your home or workplace.
UV Lamps
UV (ultraviolet) lights use ultraviolet germicidal irradiation technology to get rid of bacteria and germs in your home or workplace.
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These lights have been used for decades to keep hospital equipment disinfected and used by HVAC pros to keep ducts clean of mildew, fungus, and mold and other nasty stuff that thrives in moist conditions.
Air Filtration Systems
Air filtration systems are the best at removing smoke, pollen, and dust, according to Consumer Reports. Air filtration systems can remove these and other particulates that are tens of thousands of times smaller than the head of a pin. That’s small!
Duct Cleaning
Having Wilson’s Heat & Air stop by your home or place of business can be helpful because HVAC professionals can clean your ducts as well.
That’s another way of treating the issue, and it really makes sense to go that route because any irritants in your HVAC system can potentially torpedo your indoor air quality.
HEPA Filtration System
For further improving your indoor air quality, consider using a vacuum cleaner with a high-efficiency particular (HEPA) filtration system throughout your home. Storing solvents, glues, pesticides, and chemicals at a far remove from your living quarters is also wise.
Understanding Factors of Indoor Air Quality
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) found that the average American spends about 90% of his or her time indoors, and indoor air quality tests can reveal that indoor air is far more polluted than outdoor air!
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The concentration of some indoor air pollutants is five times higher than typical outdoor concentrations of those same pollutants. What’s more, if you’re young, old, or have a compromised immune system, then the health effects of poor indoor air quality could be worse.
Many people in these groups, and people with heart or lung issues, spend more time indoors, so reduced indoor air quality is an even bigger deal.
The really surprising thing is that schools and offices might also be more affected because of, if you can believe it, improvements with energy-efficient building constructions.
Energy-efficient buildings might save property managers money month-to-month on energy expenses, but these buildings can lack proper mechanical ventilation and poor air exchanges. because of how they’re made.
Wilson’s Heating & Air can check to make sure that your ventilation isn’t worsening your indoor air quality while giving you a full rundown of the pollutants that you might be dealing with.
For homeowners, personal care products as well as certain household cleaners or volatile organic compounds can worsen indoor air quality. The ozone in some air cleaners, for instance, can cause issues with indoor air quality.
Other sources of poor air quality and indoor pollutants in homes can be: mold, radon, carbon monoxide from heating, natural gas from cooking, pet dander, tobacco smoke, paints, cleaning supplies, and certain outdoor pollutants and allergens that can be brought in from the outdoors on shoes and clothing.
Outdoor conditions can affect your indoor air quality in two main ways – through fostering mold growth and through outdoor allergens coming indoors. An area with more pollen outdoors, for instance, can make its way indoors and very humid climates can potentially increase the chance of mold growing in the home.
The thing to do is make sure that your home is getting adequate ventilation and that your home or workplace air conditioning system is designed to remove humidity. There needs to be the right match between your air conditioning or HVAC system and indoor square footage to remove humidity and get cool air circulating at the right rate.
Looking at some of the things that can arise from poor HVAC systems can certainly be eye-opening. Radon, carbon monoxide poisoning, and even Legionnaires’ Disease (related to bacterium) have all been associated with poor building design and dysfunctional HVAC systems.
Wilson’s Heat & Air in Emory, Texas are industry experts at helping home- and business owners achieve the highest-quality, safest possible indoor air quality and helping you to lower your monthly heating and billing energy expenses.
