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Bad Odour Affect Indoor Air Quality Most homes have a signature scent so to speak. Some are pleasant…some are anything but.   Any indoor environment, whether it be a house, apartment, office building, etc has a signature scent. In fact, hotels and resorts spend thousands each year branding a certain scent with a pleasure experience and cognitive effects. However, in your own home it is best to keep scent or odours at a minimum. Scents or odours can affect air quality. Poor indoor air quality can affect mood, physical performance, enjoyment of your home and health. So let’s examine the different and most common sources of odours indoors that can affect the indoor air quality of your home. Good Indoor Air Quality Has No Scent! Top Ten Sources Of Odours Affecting Indoor Air Quality: Poor Ventilation VOC’s Mould Bacteria Biofilms Rodents Pets Occupants Scented products Smoke Let’s deal with the top ten sources for poor indoor air quality and odours in your home one at a time. Poor vent...

  In many GTA homes, this could be dinner conversation or the source of some heated disagreements. Should you turn down the heat when you leave the home or keep the furnace running as usual when you’re home? There could be several reasons for turning down the furnace or heat in your home during the day, especially if no one is going to be home. There could be energy savings reasons and environmentally friendly intent, budgetary constraints and the need or desire to save money, as well as well meaning indoor air quality reasons and the belief that a cooler home is better for mould growth prevention. However, with these good intentions you may actually be harming your indoor environment and causing poor indoor air quality with fluctuating temperatures. Here is a list of problems associated with turning down the furnace for a few hours or even a few days when no one is home. Top 5 Reasons not to turn down the Heat when you leave the house: If it gets too cold, plumbing pipes could fre...

  Everyone is vigilant these days about proper hygiene, disinfection and having good indoor air quality. There seems to be a huge demand for ventilation systems and air purifiers, ultra efficient furnace filters and HEPA filters. However, many GTA residents are forgetting about other threats to indoor air quality and the health of your home…pathogens brought home. Germs you bring home can affect your indoor air quality. So what do we mean when we say pathogens brought home. We mean germs, bacteria, mould spores and yes…viruses. When we get into our car, walk or take transit outside of our home environment, we invariably bring home whatever was in the car, bus, train, subway, office, grocery store, mall, school, etc. Whatever is airborne in these indoor environments can settle on our clothing, our bodies and our belongings from airborne settlement on to these items as well as contact transfer from the floor, seats, hand rails, etc. Wherever we go, we pick up bacteria, viruses and pa...