When your indoor air quality is not up to par, you can experience an increase in health complications. Your indoor air can harbor many nasty particles that lead to headaches, nausea, fatigue, respiratory problems, and an increase in symptoms associated with allergies and asthma. These airborne contaminants create an overall unpleasant living situation in your home. Thankfully, your Twin Cities heating and air conditioning pros can identify the cause of your poor indoor air quality.
Everyday life is a major factor in what pollutants are drifting through your home’s air. Common household items – suc
h as perfumes and cleaning solvents and agents – can add volatile compounds to the air, which can harm your health. Other common causes of poor indoor air quality include:
- Dust
- Dirt
- Pollen
- Mold and mildew spores
- Dander
- Smoke
- Bacteria
- Viruses
- Carbon monoxide and other dangerous gases
Having your home’s air quality tested should be considered when you or your family members begin to experience adverse health side effects such as an increase in sickness and allergy or asthma symptoms, or when you begin to have regular headaches, nausea or fatigue.
Do-it-yourself air quality testing kits are available for consumers to help determine what – if any – particles are floating in your air. Unfortunately, these types of DIY testing kits are limited to what they can identify. For a more thorough and complete evaluation of your home’s air quality, contact a professional who will thoroughly examine and test the air inside your home. Furthermore, they will provide you with all the information you need to improve your home’s air quality.
For more information about indoor air quality and what can be done to ensure your home isn’t making you sick, contact the air quality control experts at Marsh Heating & Air Conditioning. Since 1974, we have provided dependable residential and commercial HVAC services to the Twin Cities area.
Our goal is to help educate our customers in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota about energy and home comfort issues (specific to HVAC systems). For more information about indoor air quality and other HVAC topics, download our free Home Comfort Resource guide.
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