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Open-Air Living: Improving Indoor Air Quality

Sunday, April 17th, 2016

 

FFDM Protege Collection: Air quality improves greatly when you open the doors and windows, let sunlight in, and add potted plants indoors.

FFDM Protege Collection: Air quality improves greatly when you open the doors and windows, let sunlight in, and add potted plants indoors.

Did you know that you should also let your house breathe? Homes that are sealed tightly are likely to cause problems. To cite an example, there are homeowners who attempt to conserve energy or reduce heating costs but wind up making their dwelling places airtight. There is a need for the house to breathe if you want it to be healthy.

So what do you need to achieve open-air living? All you need is more air.

Your home needs to expel moisture and different forms of gases. It can achieve this by having a constant supply of fresh air from the outside.

The fireplace could continuously burn fuel and not emit harmful fumes properly. When this happens, your home could become a storage area for carbon monoxide, a highly poisonous gas that has been proven to kill.

To correct this, begin by checking the ventilation in your home. Has it been cleaned lately? Is it damaged or even blocked?

See that the kitchen is provided with a powerful fan. Do this also in your bathroom and the open hearth fireplace right in the middle of your living room. Exhaust fans are affordable solutions that can keep carbon monoxide poisoning to zero.

But remember that the air drawn out by the exhaust fans must also be replaced. The most powerful exhaust fans inside the kitchen and bathrooms could also create problems if negative pressure builds inside. This is what happens when backdraft draws exhaust fumes from the hot water heater, furnace and other appliances are brought back into the house.

Home Office Collection by Hooker Furniture: The open-air concept was beautifully captured in this urban home office. Minimized lines and greeneries made the scene more fresh-looking.

Home Office Collection by Hooker Furniture: The open-air concept was beautifully captured in this urban home office. Minimized lines and greeneries made the scene more fresh-looking.

When Is Air Too Tight?

You can say that your home is airtight if the feeling of the air is stuffy or stale. You could also see condensation dripping down on your windows. This could also mean that the humidifier could be set too high.

Have you noticed that the pilot light for your gas appliance seems to be going out a lot lately? When your burner produces yellow and not the usual blue flame also spells something disastrous that’s cooking up.

The smell of exhaust gases could also be present in your home. Carbon monoxide can’t be smelt but other types of exhaust gases come with odors so be wary of those.

Freshen Up

The best solutions include an air exchange system, direct feed, or merely opening your windows. The air exchange system can be professionally installed. This will exchange the air inside for fresher air outside without heat wastage.

You might also want to consider installing heating appliances and systems that can directly feed of outside air during combustion.

If the situation calls for an immediate answer, then you can look into the most obvious solutions – open your windows! Improving the indoor air quality is sometimes as obvious as just opening the windows that have been shut for the longest time. Plus it is a good habit to open the windows from time to time (if not on a daily basis).  You don’t have to wait for the indoor air to become polluted just so you would open the windows. Do it for around 5-10 minutes daily.

You should also open the windows if someone in your home engaged in an activity that would potentially deteriorate the quality of air indoors.

Here are some more tips to create open-air living in your home –

  • Ask smokers to do their deed outside. That single drag produces about 4,000 different chemicals which are never risk-free. The best choice will always be for everyone to stop smoking inside your home.
  • Every little thing can turn to dust one day so get rid of that beaten down couch. Improve air quality in an instant as you invest in a new, clean, easy-to-maintain sofa.
  • Maintain the humidity at 30-50%.
The Archivist Collection by Hooker Furniture features an open-air bedroom with curtains drawn and windows opened to let in sunlight and fresh air.

The Archivist Collection by Hooker Furniture features an open-air bedroom with curtains drawn and windows opened to let in sunlight and fresh air.

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