With the amount of time that people are spending within the walls of their homes now, it’s more important than ever to ensure that the air that you and your family are breathing is clean and pure. When the air in your home is polluted—and indoor air often is more unhealthy to breathe than outdoor air—you could be bringing on a lot of physical issues that your family otherwise could be avoiding.
To help you make some positive changes in the air your family breathes, here are three ways you can improve the air quality in your home today.
Replace Your Air Filter
In most homes, there are likely a few air filters that are being used at any given time. Generally, these air filters can be found in relation to your heating and cooling system as well as in your vacuum cleaner.
While any air filter is going to be better than nothing, Leslie Nemo, a contributor to DiscoverMagazine.com, recommends that you start using HEPA air filters wherever you have an air filter present. By replacing your old air filter with this kind of filter, you’ll be eliminating far more of the smaller and harder to see particles that make the air in your home unhealthy to breathe.
Dust Your Home
One of the biggest culprits for poor indoor air quality is dust. And although you may think that dust that is settled can’t be out in the air for you to breathe, really any dust in your home can cause you issues.
To remove this dust from your home, Mary Marlowe Leverette, a contributor to Business Insider, advises that you dust your home much more often than you likely already do, especially where you have kids playing. Ideally, you should be dusting your home before a layer of dust is allowed to settle. And when you do dust, make sure you use a duster that traps the dust rather than just sending it out into the air for you to breathe in later.
Open Your Windows
As was mentioned above, the air outside your home is often cleaned and safer to breathe than the air inside your home. So to better balance the scales here, the EPA shares that you should open your windows for at least part of every day.
When you open the windows of your home, you’re not only allowing any unhealthy air to be flushed out, but you’re also bringing in fresh air that’s much better for your family to be breathing.
If you’re wanting to take some immediate steps to purify the air in your home, consider using the tips mentioned above to help you accomplish this goal.
Originally posted on June 16, 2020 @ 2:23 pm