Is Northwest Arkansas Indoor Air Quality Making You Sick?

Over the last several years, a growing body of clinical evidence has actually suggested that the air within homes and other buildings can be more seriously contaminated than the outdoor air in even the biggest and most industrialized cities. Other research suggests that individuals spend around 90 percent of their time indoors. Thus, for many individuals in Northwest Arkansas, the risks to health may be higher due to exposure to air pollution indoors than outdoors. The Northwest Arkansas indoor air quality in your home might be influencing your health and the health of your family members.

There are prospective sources of air pollution in nearly every room of your home, but do not anguish. Fortunately there are easy, and budget-friendly, options for most of them.

What could be contaminating the air in your home? The contaminants that prowl outdoors can be discovered indoors as well, where they can and do join forces with other irritants. Those can include fumes from combustion devices and gas-fired appliances, not to mention allergens such as pet dander, dust mites, and mold.

Space heaters, ranges, ovens, stoves, furnaces, fireplaces, and water heaters launch gases and particulates into the air. There is likewise the fairly intense concern of allergens with indoor air quality such as animals, house dust and mites. Plus perennial (year-long) irritants are 10- to 100-fold greater indoors than out.

Bad air can cause coughing, chest tightness, aching throat, watery or scratchy eyes, shortness of breath, as well as a full-blown asthma attack. If you stay in a home with chronically bad air quality, you can experience frequent headaches, long-term colds, and bronchitis in addition to persistent asthma.

4 Steps to Better Northwest Arkansas Indoor Air Quality

Step 1: Increase ventilation in your house. Outdoor air consists of by-products of gas discharges from vehicles and trucks, commercial pollution, along with dirt and mold.

Best solution? Use drip ventilation, which is a 10-inch high screen with extra filters. It adjusts to most windows and allows fresh air in, helps companion indoor contaminants out.

Step 2: Turn on the Air Conditioning. Use an ac system in the summer season. Many toxins are water-soluble, and as air conditioners remove water from the environment, they get rid of these toxins. A AC unit can also remove pollen and particulate matter.

Step 3: Install a HEPA (high-efficiency particulate air) filter. You can make the air conditioner much more reliable with a disposable HEPA filter.

HEPA air cleaners are another option for cleaning the air in a single space. If they utilize a fan to draw in the air, they can be loud, nevertheless.

Step 4: Use a Rainbow Cleaning System to remove dirt and impurities. The Rainbow makes use of Mother Nature's most powerful element, water, to trap dirt and smells, returning just normally clean, water-washed air to your house environment.

This unique water purification system catches common household dirt, while remaining microscopic bits are caught by our HEPA Neutralizer Filtration System. This two-stage filtration combination removes almost 100% of dirt and pollutants from your home.

To learn more on reducing indoor pollution in your Northwest Arkansas house and the Rainbow Cleaning System contact us at 479-373-1056 for a in-home demonstration.