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Breathe Easier with Improved Indoor Air Quality in Aiken, SC

Sweating duct work, dusty homes and musty odors do NOT have to be normal.

Your heating and cooling system does a lot more than just control the temperature inside your home. It has an impact on the air that you breathe, on moisture, and most importantly, on you and your family’s health. In fact, indoor air quality in Aiken, SC and also other areas is among the EPA’s top 3 health concerns. The agency reports that the air inside your home can be 2-5 times dirtier than the air outside.

Air pollutants are all around us — inside our homes and outside — threatening our home health and air quality all year long. Holley Heating and Air can improve your home’s health with humidifiers to control air moisture, ventilators to bring in the fresh air, and electronic and traditional air filters to clean the air before it circulates.

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Many house owners struggle to prevent indoor allergies but can’t do so due to failing to apply the right methods. Ensuring the safest and most comfortable air quality inside the house is prudent to prevent frequent allergy attacks. This article is going to present the best five indoor allergy-reducing tips. Keep reading them thoroughly to get the best indoor air quality and improve your health.

5 Important Tips to Prevent Indoor Air Allergies

1. Vacuum the Entire House Weekly

Vacuuming the entire house, especially the areas more exposed to dirt and dust, is very important. This practice will help you with many health benefits. You spend most of your time inside the house. Moreover, when you are out of work or go to the office for a few days, you just want to rest inside the house, inhaling the best indoor air.

Therefore, you must clean out your heating and cooling vents monthly but clean even more often if you have a pet inside your house. Wall or ceiling fans work throughout the day and night in the summer. So, they get dirty very fast. Clean those filters weekly. Choose the best vacuum cleaner from a store or online that can serve you the best in your house cleaning projects.

2. Change Air Filters at the Right Time

Air filters are the best friends to keep the home comfortable and livable. They purify air to improve indoor air quality. However, the furnace filters become very dirty over time due to constantly capturing airborne particles. They can’t operate well when they are clogged. The clogged air filter has to work harder to purify the air and recirculates the contaminants inside the house. So, there is no chance to avoid the task of changing air filters timely. Replacing the furnace filters is not difficult, but if you can’t do it yourself, talk to an expert from Simply Filters and ask to choose the right Merv filter for your needs.

3. Clean Air Vents

Do you know experts recommend cleaning air vents at least once a month? Air vents are a great source of airborne contaminants. The particles and air allergens get trapped inside the air vents. Therefore, you must clean them regularly with a vacuum cleaner and a brush.

4. Control Pet Dander

Another tip to make the home safer for people with allergic issues is to control pet dander. Pets are your precious friends. So, you might not want to get them out of your house. When getting rid of the pets is not an option, at least clean up the pet dander that fosters allergic reactions.

5. Choose Good Houseplants

Indoor plants are great natural things to purify indoor air as they remove toxins, chemicals, or pollen that trigger allergies. There are some plants that are not safe to rest inside because they may worsen allergy symptoms. So, you should choose indoor plants very wisely. Moreover, it will be great if you choose cleanable plants like spider plants.

Conclusion

You should find all ways to stop houses from being breeding grounds for indoor allergies. It is easy to control dust, pollen, dander, particles, mold, and many other substances. Not all allergies are detectable with bare eyes. Therefore, some people are less conscious about taking proper steps to remove microscopic allergens. You must vacuum your house properly to reduce the number of allergens at its highest because living in a house with these allergies will never let you feel like you are in a comfortable indoor atmosphere.

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Clean air and good health, along with freedom and liberty, are Montana values. And they all go together.

Twenty years ago, our state took the lead in highlighting the benefits of smokefree air in our indoor public spaces, including restaurants, bars and casinos.

Those benefits include reduced risk for heart attacks, lung cancer and asthma attacks. They also include the freedom not to breathe toxic chemicals, and the liberty to do an honest day’s work as a casino employee, waitperson, bartender or dishwasher without putting your life on the line through exposure to deadly smoke.

Not only did we talk about the benefits of smokefree policies, we also demonstrated them — not just to Montana, but to the entire world.

In 2003, we co-authored “The Helena Heart Attack Study,” a paper published in the British Medical Journal that showed how smokefree protections have an amazingly rapid effect on preventing heart attacks. This was the first study of its kind and it happened because of Montanans’ fight for clean indoor air.

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In Helena, a comprehensive smoke-free ordinance went into effect after a strong “yes for smokefree” vote in June 2002, but was suspended six months later due to a legal challenge from the tavern and casino industries.

While we were unhappy about the suspension, this turning off-and-on of the smoke “faucet” provided an unique opportunity to compare local health data from before and after the ordinance went into effect.

What we found was remarkable. Local health records showed that during an average six-month period, the number of hospital admissions for heart attacks in Helena was just under seven per month. However, during the six months that the ordinance was in place, the number dipped to under four per month — a drop of nearly 60%. This was a huge improvement in just a short period, and demonstrated how significant smokefree protections are to preventing death and disease.

Reinstating Helena’s protections and expanding them statewide took several years of outreach and education to Montana citizens, decision makers and businesses.

The Montana Legislature finally passed the Montana Clean Indoor Air Act in 2005, making indoor public spaces smokefree, apart from bars and casinos, which had until 2009 to comply. In that time, the Helena study was replicated in Ireland, Scotland, France, Germany, Italy, Greece and Canada as well as in numerous communities in the United States.

We are proud to be a part of this history. Yet we are concerned about the future.

Where Montana once led on clean air, there are now signs of retreat. This legislative session saw three bills aimed at doing away with our smokefree protections. Thankfully, due to the hard work of health advocates and wiser heads in the Legislature, all three of these bills failed.

However, our state leaders also missed a tremendous opportunity by tabling a good bill by Sen. Willis Curdy that would’ve added e-cigarettes into our smokefree protections.

Studies show that e-cigarette aerosol contains ultrafine particles linked to cancer, lung and heart disease. E-cigarette aerosol also contains nicotine, which is harmful to adolescent brain development. Contrary to claims otherwise, e-cigarettes do not benefit users by helping them quit. The majority become “dual users” of both e-cigarettes and conventional cigarettes.

Using recreational marijuana in our public spaces is prohibited, the same should be true of e-cigarettes.

A 2021 poll by the American Heart Association and American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network showed that 89% of Montana Democratic and Republican voters support our Clean Indoor Air Act and 81% (four in five) support including electronic smoking devices into it.

We urge our elected officials to protect Montanans’ freedom to breathe healthy air by strengthening our Clean Indoor Air Act to include ALL types of smoking.

Richard Sargent, M.D., and Robert Shepard, M.D., of Helena, are co-authors of the Helena Heart Attack Study.

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tNr instrument. Credit: York University

Most people know air pollution exists outside from cars, trucks and industry, but many are unaware their indoor air quality could be worse than that of a big city.

Until now, there has been no easy way to measure indoor air quality given the size and complexity of the equipment—it would likely fill a single car garage and need several scientists to operate it—but researchers at York University have designed an instrument that could assess pollution levels inside homes and businesses.

The total reactive nitrogen (tNr) instrument, developed by York University Assistant Professor Trevor VandenBoer of the Faculty of Science along with former York Postdoctoral researcher Leigh Crilley, uses an oven to measure a variety of chemicals that make up indoor air pollution and is the size of a small bookcase on wheels. In the future, it could be loaded onto a truck and navigated through the doorways of homes and businesses to measure reactive nitrogen species in the air in a kitchen, bedroom or basement by existing professionals with similar training to energy auditors.

“The purpose of this instrument is to target emissions we know come from cooking and cleaning and have a huge impact on our indoor air quality. Managing indoor air quality involves more than just using the range hood over your gas stove, especially when your space is sealed tight for winter,” says VandenBoer.

Credit: York University

“Some of the pollutants, or reactive nitrogen species, can come from stoves, furnaces, fireplaces or even burning candles, but it can also come from food you cook, such as a steak or a piece of fish. Cooking can have a large impact on the level of indoor pollutants, such as ammonia and amines.”

Using a gas stove, compared to an electric hot plate, would also emit much higher levels of chemicals that would become airborne, such as gas-phase nitrous acid, as well as nitrogen oxide and nitrogen dioxide.

Cleaning, building materials and even human breath and skin emissions can be other significant sources of indoor air pollution. Even using cleaning staples, such as hydrogen peroxide and bleach, can create high emissions and lead to significantly worse air quality, says the researchers.

“There is a need for this kind of tool to measure indoor air quality, especially given the detriments to health associated with high levels of reactive nitrogen oxides,” says Crilley. “Typically, there has been no good way to measure the average home’s indoor air quality and this instrument could provide an unobtrusive way to do that.”

Credit: York University

The researchers tested the tNr instrument in a commercial kitchen, known for its complex indoor environment with rapidly changing levels of pollutants. Compared to the more passive method for testing indoor air pollution, this method was able to detect about 82% of reactive nitrogen species.

Although not immediately available for use, the idea is that the instrument could provide people and businesses with a good understanding of their levels of indoor pollution so they can take steps to address it.

The idea for designing the open-source components of the instrument came from an earlier study where the researchers measured the indoor air quality of a home in New York and found unexpectedly high pollutions levels.

“We realized we really needed new instruments to study the pollution in these spaces,” says VandenBoer. “There are still a lot of outstanding questions. For example, is the air in your indoor space safe for you to breathe? What makes indoor air good or bad? Could there be simple things we could do? These are questions that atmospheric chemists are just beginning to turn their attention to.”

The paper, “An instrument to measure and speciate the total reactive nitrogen budget indoors: description and field measurements,” was published in Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts.

More information:
Leigh R. Crilley et al, Emerging investigator series: an instrument to measure and speciate the total reactive nitrogen budget indoors: description and field measurements, Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts (2023). DOI: 10.1039/D2EM00446A

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First Response offers quality products and personalized services to help you improve your indoor air quality. We install the best technology for air purification in Yorba Linda and Orange County to provide the ideal solution for every property. We have more than 24 years of experience in our industry and a commitment to excellence in workmanship and service. 

If you are interested in improving your home’s air quality, call First Response at (714) 242-8422 for more information.

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The air inside many homes can be as much as five times as polluted as the outdoor air, according to research from the Environmental Protection Agency. The particles and contaminants that become trapped in the air indoors continue to circulate through the HVAC system and ductwork. This can lead to physical symptoms, such as headaches, fatigue, triggering allergy and asthma symptoms, and irritation of the eyes, nose, throat, and skin. 

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WISCONSIN – The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is now accepting entries from third, fourth and fifth graders for the Air, Air, Everywhere poetry contest.

Now in its 12th year, the annual DNR-sponsored contest is designed to raise awareness of the importance of good air quality in honor of Clean Air Month in May.

The DNR encourages teachers and parents to submit original poems and riddles created by their students. The three winning poets will have their work featured on the DNR website and social media channels.

The contest is open to all third, fourth and fifth grade students in Wisconsin. Any form of original poetry or riddle is acceptable. Entries must be 200 words or less and describe air or the importance of clean air.

Writing must be the original work of the student. Each entry must include the author’s name, the name of the parent and teacher and the parent and teacher’s email and phone number.

Entries must be sent to to [email protected] by Friday, May 5. Contest entries will not be returned and will become the property of the contest sponsor. 

The DNR’s Air, Air Everywhere Teacher’s Guide (www.widnr.widen.net/s/7bw6q8wxlz) includes ten activities to get students thinking about the air in Wisconsin.

As part of the “Where’s the Air?” activity (www.bit.ly/42Hi3jg), students will complete simple sensory experiments to discover the characteristics of air and then write a poem or riddle describing air. 

The Wisconsin air quality facts and information guide (www.bit.ly/3LL3qoL) is available to help students complete their riddles and poems. This resource is filled with facts on Wisconsin’s air quality history and its current status to help students understand the state’s continually improving air quality. 

More information on the Air, Air, Everywhere Contest is available on the DNR website at www.bit.ly/3K7dCGQ.

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The tnR instrument developed by VandenBoer and Crilley. Credit: York University

Air pollution in the outside environment is something that has been studied and measured. Indoor air quality, however, is something that has not been examined as closely, largely because there has been no easy way to measure it given the size and complexity of most existing equipment – it would likely fill a single-car garage and need several scientists to operate it.

Now, researchers at York University have designed an instrument that could more easily assess pollution levels inside homes and businesses.

Developed by York University Assistant Professor Trevor VandenBoer of the Faculty of Science along with former York Postdoctoral researcher Leigh Crilley, the total reactive nitrogen (tNr) instrument uses an oven to measure a variety of chemicals that make up indoor air pollution and is the size of a small bookcase on wheels.

In the future, the system could be loaded onto a truck and navigated through the doorways of homes and businesses to measure air quality in a kitchen, bedroom, or basement by existing professionals with training similar to energy auditors.

“The purpose of this instrument is to target emissions we know come from cooking and cleaning and have a huge impact on our indoor air quality. Managing indoor air quality involves more than just using the range hood over your gas stove, especially when your space is sealed tight for winter,” says VandenBoer.

“Some of the pollutants, or reactive nitrogen species, can come from stoves, furnaces, fireplaces, or even burning candles, but it can also come from the food you cook, such as a steak or a piece of fish. Cooking can have a large impact on the level of indoor pollutants, such as ammonia and amines.”

The researcher duo tested the tNr instrument in a commercial kitchen, known for its complex indoor environment with rapidly changing levels of pollutants. The new method was able to detect about 82% of reactive nitrogen species compared to the more passive method for testing indoor air pollution.

Although not immediately available for use, the idea is that the instrument could provide e people and businesses with a good understanding of their levels of indoor pollution so they can take steps to address it.

Researchers plan to design the open-source components of the instrument. The idea came from an earlier study where the researchers measured the indoor air quality of a home in New York and found unexpectedly high pollution levels.

“We realized we really needed new instruments to study the pollution in these spaces,” says VandenBoer. “There are still a lot of outstanding questions. For example, is the air in your indoor space safe for you to breathe? What makes indoor air good or bad? Could there be simple things we could do? These are questions that atmospheric chemists are just beginning to turn their attention to.”

Journal reference:

1. Leigh R. Crilley, Melodie Lao, Leyla Salehpoor and Trevor C. VandenBoer. An instrument to measure and speciate the total reactive nitrogen budget indoors: description and field measurements. Environmental Science: Processes and Impacts, 2023; DOI: 10.1039/D2EM00446A

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Indoor air quality has become a growing concern in recent years, as studies have shown that poor indoor air quality can lead to a range of health problems, including allergies, respiratory issues, and even cancer. In addition, mold is a common problem in many buildings, and can cause a range of health issues as well as structural damage. 

To help address these issues, Atlas Labs offers a comprehensive range of indoor air quality and mold testing services. Its team of experts uses the latest testing equipment and techniques to identify and measure a wide range of contaminants, including mold spores, allergens, and more. With its state-of-the-art testing methods, Atlas Labs is able to provide accurate and reliable results quickly and efficiently, allowing its clients to take action to address any issues that are identified.

“We are excited to be bringing our expertise in indoor air quality and mold testing to the Vancouver Washington and the surrounding area,” said a spokesperson for Atlas Labs. “Our team of experts is committed to providing our clients with the most accurate and reliable testing services available, and we are confident that our services will help ensure a safe and healthy indoor environment for our clients and their families.”

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