If you are looking to breathe easier in your home, these simple steps will help you greatly improve your indoor air quality. This can help improve both your comfort and overall health, especially if you suffer from respiratory problems such as asthma or allergies. 

1. Replace your air filters on a regular basis. Follow your manufacturer’s recommendations on replacement to ensure that your filters stay working at maximum efficiency, and keep capturing even the tiniest of particles. This will also help keep your energy costs down.
2. If you have exhaust fans in your kitchen and bathroom that do not ventilate outside, then they are simply circulating dirty air that needs to be dumped outside of your home. Upgrade your exhaust fans to vent outside for better air quality.
3. When engaged in activities that involve materials with a large amount of pollutants, such as painting, cooking or soldering, be sure to ventilate the area well by opening windows and using exhaust fans.
4. Make sure your heating equipment is ventilating properly and not allowing pollutants to circulate throughout your home.
5. Use UV lights in conjunction with your high-efficiency air filters to reduce harmful microorganisms like mold and viruses. These lights can be installed into your air system by an HVAC professional, and are extremely efficient.
6. Reduce sources of indoor combustion, such as the use of candles or cigarettes.
7. Avoid installing major HVAC components like your air conditioner, ductwork or furnace in parts of your home where pollutants could potentially be pulled into your system and recirculated throughout the home. If this cannot be avoided, seal and insulate components as much as possible to prevent contaminants from entering the system.
8. Ensure that your central vacuum system and dryer are vented to the outdoors.
9. Vent complementary heating sources such as wood stoves and fireplaces.
10. Keep volatile chemicals like paint thinner stored away from your home.

For more ways to improve your indoor air quality, and promote easier breathing in your home, contact Ben Maines Air Conditioningtoday. We have proudly served the greater East Texas area since 1949.

Our goal is to help educate our customers about energy and home comfort issues (specific to HVAC systems).  For more information about indoor air quality and other HVAC topics, download our free Home Comfort Resource guide.

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