With the arrival of winter comes the difficulty of keeping your home clean and fresh air circulating. Your home air quality suffers during the wintertime. Each person and pet living in your house is affected by the diminished air quality and asthma sufferers experience increased symptoms during this time.
There are some things you can do to reduce the dust and dirt that is floating in your home air. The things detailed here are just a beginning, to get you thinking about how important home air quality really is.
The first thing you should do is increase the humidity in the air. Central heating during the winter drives the moisture out of the air and this has a great affect on the quality. This warm air dries out dust, pet dander and other small particles that reside on your floors, causing these particles to release into the air. In return, you breathe these particles, which is not healthy. Using a humidifier during the winter will keeps these particles out of the air.
Another thing you can do to improve the air quality in your home during winter is to actually open the windows. Now you don't want to leave them open, but it is good to get the fresh air in periodically. There are some data that suggests that our homes are too air tight. This causes the air quality ti suffer as there is little exchange with the outside. Open the windows for a few minutes each day and let in the fresh oxygen and let out the radon. ( well, let's hope you don't have radon, and that is another subject altogether).
The best thing you can do to improve your home air quality is to get a good home air purifier. Air purifiers have come a long way from the days of the loud, blowers that seem to do nothing but move the dust around. With the invention of the HEPA (High Efficiency Particulate Filter), home air purifiers can dramatically reduce the levels of airborne particles in your house. If you have a pet, then there is all the more reason to get a home air cleaner and allow it run a significant portion of the day. These cleaners can remove particles down to the .3 Micron size. This is well below the size of most viruses and bacteria that could be in your air.
Air quality suffers during the winter because we get less fresh air throughout the home during this time. There are a few things that you can do to help improve the quality of the air. Use a humidifier, open your windows periodically and use a home air purifier are a few ways to help improve the home air quality during the winter.
Rob Airman writes extensively about house air quality. Find out more about house air cleaners at BlueAir Purifiers. Also, find out if house air cleaners may be the best investment for your house.
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