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Purifying Your Household Air Flow

The Maids Medway • Sep 26, 2013

Your dedication to a healthy home is reflected by the cleanliness you do with housekeeping efforts. Nevertheless, is that the only thing to consider in making your home healthy? Contaminants and allergens tend to hide well within the air of your home and cause allergic reactions or even illness. You cannot erase everything in the air, but can help take control of it.

Every house has dust, but you can help reduce the level of pollutants and allergens to make the atmosphere healthier. These irritants lead to sicknesses or allergy troubles. This happens to be more common during winter seasons or anytime windows stay closed.

The first thing to consider is air purification. Many air filtration units are available with different levels of filtering and various coverage capabilities. Options can include fan speeds, filtration monitoring, timers, etc. No matter what model you decide on, it will help reduce those air pollutants, but a more expensive model usually does a better job. Aside from that, it may be more efficient to run.

A different or additional solution is to use window fans. Install fans in several windows while leaving other windows open to bring in air. A lot of households use fans to bring in fresh air, but by sending out bad air, it brings in fresh air through the other windows. The only drawback here is to have to periodically clean those window screens, but that is not a difficult task to do.

Vacuum cleaners tend to stir up the finer debris and pollutants or tend to let allergens escape into the air. So your house may look clean, but you just shuffled up unhealthy particles. A more expensive vacuum will reduce those issues and help make the air cleaner. Some vacuums market HEPA filtration, but may not send all the air into the filter. Oftentimes, pollutants escape through cracks, crevices, openings, and zippers. Regardless, a HEPA vacuum can certainly help a little. But it will help more if it is a good design. A more expensive HEPA vacuum may do a much better job.

No matter what type of home you have, it will always have some form of air contaminants. But there are several strategies and techniques you can use to help control that level of air contamination.

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