To make sure the air you breathe in your home each day is the highest quality possible, you need to attack the source of excess dust. While eliminating all pollutants from your air is impossible, this strategy will help you vastly improve your indoor air quality. This can help improve both your comfort and your health.
Is Your Attached Garage Compromising Your Indoor Air Quality?
The attached garage is a convenience that many homeowners enjoy. However, have you given much thought to the pollutants that are generated in your attached garage? Unless you implement certain preventative measures, much of the carbon monoxide, benzene and other pollutants generated from your vehicle and chemicals kept in the garage can leak into your home.
Buying A MERV Filter: How To Figure Out Those Numbers
The air in your home is full of microscopic organisms, pollen, mold, pet dander and dust. There are a few ways you can reduce the number of these irritating allergens in your home, and one of the most effective is to install filters with high MERV ratings. MERV stands for Minimum Efficiency Reporting Value. These values quantify how well a …
Why Your Home Needs Heat-Recovery Ventilation
Adequate ventilation provides your home with a continuous supply of fresh air. Energy-efficient improvement and construction methods such as weather-stripping and insulation can save you money and enhance climate control. However, these methods tend to render your home airtight, which can keep pollutants inside, not allowing them to escape into the outdoors. They should be complemented with a ventilation system …
UV-Light System: A Key Player In Your Clean-Air Strategy
A UV-light system can form an integral part of your home’s defenses against indoor pollutants and poor indoor air quality, both of which can lead to serious and chronic health problems over time. To understand how they work, you should begin by brushing up on your knowledge of ultraviolet light and see how it can be applied in your home …
Do You Want To Do Something About Indoor Air Quality? How Air Purification Systems Can Help
Outdoor air pollutants such as smog, automobile fumes, smoke and many others are harmful to our health. But, if you’re like most people, then you are spending more than half of your time indoors. Most of us don’t realize that our indoor air ultimately comes from outside, but is less filtered and circulated. This means the air quality inside your …
Boost Indoor Air Quality With UV Light
UV-light purification systems are excellent options to combat poor indoor air quality in buildings and homes. Scientific research has determined that air found indoors can be substantially more polluted than the air that is found outdoors. It has also been discovered that most people spend 90 percent of their time indoors. These facts should warn you of the health threats …
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Put “High Efficiency” On Your List If This Is Your Year For New A/C
If you live in the Kansas City area and are looking for ways to increase your home’s comfort level this summer, you might want to consider the benefits that come with high-efficiency air conditioners. These effective units provide an excellent way to increase the overall comfort level of your home. Although high-efficiency air conditioning units cost more upfront than traditional …
Welcome To Overland Park Heating & Cooling’s New Home Comfort Blog
As a homeowner in the Kansas City area, you probably have a lot of questions about your heating and cooling systems. Where do you go to get the answers? We’re starting our new blog for the purpose of answering some of those questions and making it a little bit easier for you to get the comfort and indoor air quality …