Home Basics - Create a Healthy Home

Basic Strategies to create a healthy home.

Source Control

The most effective way to improve air quality is to eliminate individual sources of pollution or reduce their emissions.

Ventilation Improvements

To lower the concentrations of indoor air pollutants in your home, increase the amount of outdoor air coming indoors. Most home heating and cooling systems do not mechanically bring fresh air into the house.

Local bathroom or kitchen fans that exhaust outdoors remove contaminants directly from the room where the fan is located and also increase the outdoor air ventilation rate.

Air Cleaners

There are many types and sizes of air cleaners on the market, ranging from relatively inexpensive table-top models to sophisticated and expensive whole-house systems.

The effectiveness of an air cleaner depends on how well it collects pollutants from indoor air and how much air it draws through the cleaning or filtering element.

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