Let Your Home Breathe – The Importance of Home Ventilation
When thinking about home energy and savings, we often talk about making homes as “tight” as possible to keep warm or cool air from escaping or getting into the home through leaks, cracks, or other energy waste culprits. While paying attention to tightening up the home is extremely important in the world of home performance,…
Improving Indoor Air Quality – Part 2
As a follow up to our most recent blog post on improving the air quality inside your home, here are a few more tips we’d like to share with you. As always, we highly recommend consulting with a professional prior to any major indoor air quality improvements in order to maximize your efforts and budget….
Improving Indoor Air Quality – Part 1
We’ve probably all experienced it—whether in our home or someone else’s—that stuffy, stale feeling of the inside air. It can be a bit of a burden on not only our comfort in the home, but also on our overall health and safety. Fortunately, there are ways to increase the indoor air quality. In this blog…
Ventilation – A Home Necessity
A home with poor indoor air quality can be hard to bear for homeowners and those who live with them. Indoor air quality is essential to the overall comfort of the home. Stale, old air that gets trapped inside the house can not only present comfort problems for those inside the home, it can also…
Home Ventilation – A Necessity
We recently posted on our blog about the dangers the harmful gas radon can propose in your home through exposure to you and your loved ones. It’s important to remember that there are many harmful gases and airborne contaminants that can cause problems in your home without proper ventilation. Especially in newer builds, homes today…
The Dangers of Radon in the Home
We’ve discussed on the blog about the importance of taking steps to ensure your home stays free of harmful gases such as carbon monoxide. Another, similarly harmful gas that can result from poor indoor ventilation is radon. This dangerous gas is a naturally occurring radioactive gas produced by the breakdown of uranium in soil, rock,…
