How To Improve Air Quality In Your Home

If you ever think of how you can improve your home’s safety, chances are, improving indoor air quality has come to mind once or twice. What many people don’t realize is that their home’s indoor air quality is much poorer than that outside due to a lack of circulation. With that being said, simply opening your windows can go a long ways to improving your home’s air quality and making you feel more comfortable in your own home. However, there are many other ways that you can improve your home’s air quality, so it’s not necessary to have your windows open 24/7. Keep reading to learn about several ways that you can start making your home a safer place to live.

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Open your windows  

Like we said earlier, simply opening your windows is a great way to release many of the allergens and toxins that can build up in your home. In addition to this, you’ll have better circulation so your home will feel much less stuffy and allow more oxygen in so you can breathe a bit better. Generally, it’s a good habit to leave your windows open for an hour a two each day, but if you’re painting, applying polish to furniture, or spraying any other chemical in your home, you should always open the nearest door or window immediately after. You may think that these chemicals dissipate, but the truth is, they hang around for quite some time, and you’ll be breathing them in.

Clean often

It’s easy to avoid cleaning your home—we know. Sometimes our cleaning duties just get pushed further and further to the side as we live our lives. However, even a small amount of cleaning each day can help to improve your indoor air quality. You should make it a habit to pick up after yourself after eating, clean your room, dust, vacuum, and use wet wipes on the table. However, if you’re going to dust, make sure you follow that up with vacuuming.

Dusting by itself, although helpful for removing dust from your table or desk, won’t do anything to improve your home’s air quality. In fact, it will make it worse. If a table is dusted off, the dust will land on the floor and get kicked up every time someone walks over it. Living in a dirty home is difficult for people with allergies, asthma, or other respiratory issues and can be easily prevented with regular and thorough cleaning.

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