How Do You Know If You Need Air Quality Testing?

 The term air quality can encompass many things. Air quality can literally mean just the comfortable temperature of you home. It can also mean how dry it is, or the relative humidity. However, it can also include some more serious air quality parameters such as gases, toxins, allergens, pathogens, etc. So how do you know if you need air quality testing?

Here are some Air Quality Testing tips for homes and offices in the general Toronto area.

One of the symptoms of poor indoor air quality is what is the home (or office) trying to tell you? Do you smell unusual odours?, is there condensation on windows, do you think you feel better when outside, etc.

Top 5 Reasons For Air Quality Testing … your home is speaking!

  1. Strange odours that either come and go or are constantly there.
  2. A musty or mouldy smell.
  3. Excessive condensation on walls or windows
  4. Excessive settled dust on furniture, flat surfaces or floors.
  5. Visible mould growth.

Any of these can be an indicator of poor indoor air quality warranting and indoor air quality assessment of your home or office.

However, in many cases where the indoor air quality is poor there can be instances where there are no tell tale signs, no odours, no condensation, no visible dust and no visible mould. The air quality indoors can still be toxic.

Another good indicator on whether to have an indoor air quality test performed is how you or other occupants feel. If you don’t quite feel well indoors, have allergies, or are reacting in any unusual way tied to your health…you could have poor indoor air quality.

Top 5 Reasons For An Indoor Air Quality Test…your body is speaking!

  1. Constant allergic reactions when indoors including, sinus, respiratory or skin reactions.
  2. Headaches or migraines.
  3. Trouble sleeping.
  4. Cold or flu like symptoms lasting longer than a few weeks.
  5. An actual disease or disorder tied to indoor air quality.

So you can see it can be any of the above 10 indicators or even ones not listed above that could warrant having the indoor air quality checked in your home or office.

If you have been suffering from allergies, have health symptoms or been diagnosed with a medical condition or disease…poor indoor air quality may not be the cause…but certainly will not help you recover either.

The overall enjoyment of our home is paramount to both our physical and mental health, especially these days where we are spending most of our time at home and indoors. Think Air Quality Testing as a Physical For Your Home. If your home is not healthy, then neither are you.

Most indoor environmental or indoor air quality issues are not in plain view or obvious. In fact, most indoor air quality issues in a home or office are microscopic and hidden. Most if not all of these indoor environmental issues can not be uncovered without accurate and sensitive industrial hygiene instrumentation, laboratory analysis as well as a trained and knowledgeable consultant.

Verify Air Quality Test can help you identify and rectify your indoor air quality challenges and help you on to the road to better indoor health, better air quality and a more enjoyable healthy home. Call us for an Air Quality Test today.

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