Can Indoor Air Quality Improve Your Comfort?

The indoor air quality in your home may affect your comfort and health. You might face more allergy symptoms with allergens and pollutants circulating in your Lenoir City, TN home. It is important to improve your comfort by taking steps to identify the problems with your air quality and fix them.

Identifying Air Quality Problem Areas

You should first look to potential causes of the allergens and pollutants in your home. You may, for example, have pets that are leaving behind pet dander. You also could have excess dust or even certain toxins, like volatile organic compounds in your home.

Control Pollution

The most obvious way to improve the air quality in your home is to eliminate the source. You may not detect toxins in the air of your home by yourself, but a professional can help identify biological growth, dirty air ducts and other issues and then eliminate these pollutants. Cleaning the furniture and other surfaces more often helps to reduce other allergens.

Increase Ventilation

Another simple step to improve the indoor air quality in your home is to increase the ventilation in your home. If it isn’t too hot or too cold, open windows to allow outdoor air to circulate through and bring fresh air in. To purify air when running your heat or AC, you can ask a professional if your HVAC system needs maintenance to better circulate this fresh air.

Invest in an Air Purifier

The final step you can take to improve the indoor air quality in your home is to invest in an inline air purifier that is attached to your HVAC system. These systems use paper filters or electromagnetic forces to pull pollutants out of the air, recirculating the clean air. Some even have a carbon filter to assist you in eliminating toxins from your home.

Contact our professionals at Cook’s Comfort System’s, Inc when you are ready to improve the air quality in your home. We’ll help make sure your home’s air is as comfortable and healthy as possible.

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