27 Sep Get All Your Ducts In a Row: Testing Indoor Air Quality
The quality of your air at home is important to your health and the health of your loved ones. Monitoring the levels of pollutants in your home and identifying their sources is important if you want to maintain a healthy living environment. Here are some suggestions to help you test indoor air quality at your home. 
Causes of Poor Indoor Air Quality
Indoor pollution may be caused by sources that release gases or particles like a gas stove, products for household cleaning, wet carpet, asbestos-containing insulation, or even wood. Not getting enough outdoor air circulation will let pollutants build up indoors. Remodeling or refurbishing your house can bring dust and chemicals indoors; a dirty air duct is a common cause of pollutants because air ducts contain dust and mold that circulate throughout your house.
Identifying Polluted Air in Your Home
The most accessible way of identifying your home’s air quality is to see how you feel. Are you sometimes tired or do you ever feel sick? Are your family members showing signs of sickness? If so, talk to a doctor about recent events that have happened in or around where you live and see if there are any connections to your symptoms.
Another way is to check your air duct for dust and mold. Check each vent by taking the cover off and looking for dust or debris. You will want to check around other parts of your heating and cooling system to make sure no spots are wet or contain mold. The Environmental Protection Service offers excellent guidelines when checking your air ducts:
- Many parts of your heating and cooling system are not visible, so ask a provider who has the capability to check for you.
- A substance that may look like mold can’t be trusted. To be sure, you can pay $50 at a microbiology lab and have it tested to know if you do actually have mold and what type of mold it is.
- If air duct conditions are not corrected properly, the mold will recur.
- If insulation gets wet it will have to be replaced because it is impossible to clean sufficiently
Treatment for Dirty or Moldy Air Ducts
If you have identified poor air quality in your home or office caused by dust or mold in your air ducts, then it’s time for a cleaning. We offer a professional guaranteed air duct cleaning service to ensure you are breathing the air that you deserve. Call us and set up an appointment today.