Outdoor Pollution Affects Indoor Air Quality In Your Home

 The state of the outdoor environment, or quality of air outdoors, has a direct effect on the quality of the air you breathe in your home. Outdoor pollution affects the indoor air quality of your home. The more polluted the outdoor air is, the higher the pollution levels will be in your home.

The CDC has just released the latest scientific study in how poor the air quality can be in your city or neighbourhood.

https://www.cdc.gov/climateandhealth/effects/air_pollution.htm

The lung association also warns that outdoor air pollution can affect your health indoors and has published a guideline on how to protect yourself through the Air Quality Index report.  

https://www.lung.org/clean-air/outdoors/air-quality-index

Proper ventilation and air purification is crucial in keeping your indoor quality safe and healthy for you and your family.

Polluted air will find its way into your home through natural ventilation through the building envelope as well as cracks and crevices in your doors and windows. After all we need oxygen to breathe indoors and the air has to come in somehow. Some homes have mechanical ventilation systems such as HRV or ERV’s that draw in air from outdoors. These systems have some filtration for large particles such as flies and mosquitoes but don’t filter out small or fine outdoor pollutants.

With climate change and an increase in outdoor pollutants comes higher instances of increased indoor air pollution or poor indoor air quality. The higher the outdoor allergens and pathogens are, the higher the indoor allergens, pollutants and pathogens are as well. Unless, you have the mechanics to remove the airborne particles that are responsible for allergic reactions, sinus infections and respiratory diseases.

With todays outdoor environment and especially with lockdowns and viral threats…Now is the time to make sure your air purification systems are working properly.

The ideal indoor environment that promotes health and safety of its occupants, filter out any health threat originating from the occupants, indoor environment as well as what could be coming from the outdoor environment.

Just imagine how comfortable you would be in your home, if all you needed to do was close the window and turn on your central air purification system that would filter out any outdoor pollutants as well as manage any indoor pollutant. That is indoor air quality at its finest.

However, there are a number of products, brands and technologies that just donor do what the brochure claims they do. In short, there is a lot of stuff on the market that simply doesn’t work. In many cases the technology is sound, just the quality of the manufactured product gets in the way of it actually working as designed. And in other cases the technology is misleading and only works in controlled laboratory testing and does not work once installed in your HVAC system. They key is to be able to prove the technology and the product once installed in you home with proper indoor air quality instrumentation and/or laboratory sampling. Most manufactures don’t want you to do that because they know it will fail.

This is where we can help. A proper indoor air quality assessment can show you what you need to improve the indoor air quality of your home and what products works and don’t work. Call us for a detailed indoor air quality assessment of your home.  We service the Toronto area and the GTA and GTHA for the best indoor air quality testing service.

Call Verify Air Quality Test for all your indoor air quality testing Toronto

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