Although springtime brings welcome visitors like the sun, greenery, and cute baby animals, it also brings some very unwelcome visitors ready to invade your home: pollen, allergens, and dust. However, with a properly maintained HVAC system, you can embrace the return of spring and ensure that these tiny allergens don’t affect your health or sanity! Don’t know where to start? Keeping your indoor air quality clean and comfortable is simple, and with some minor adjustments, you could be breathing cleaner air in no time!
Combating Serious Health Issues
Many people take their air quality for granted until they, or someone they love, are impacted by the air. While many people are aware of outdoor pollution, people don’t always stop to think about how good or bad their home air quality actually is.
Inhaling too much dust in the home can cause run-of-the-mill allergies and irritation to the eyes, throat, and lungs. If too many allergens are swirling around in the home, they can exacerbate existing health conditions, such as the following:
- Dust Mite Allergies - This is an allergy to tiny bugs that typically live in house dust. Symptoms include sneezing, watery eyes, nasal congestion, and a runny nose, or even wheezing and difficulty breathing. This allergy usually needs a multi-pronged attack to control, such as special bed covers, dusting, vacuuming, and good air filtration.
- Asthma - Asthma is a chronic lung condition characterized by such side effects as difficulty breathing, wheezing, coughing, and shortness of breath. Most people who have asthma actually have allergies as well.
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease - COPD is a lung disease that also causes sneezing, wheezing, and difficulty breathing. It covers conditions like emphysema, chronic bronchitis, and non-reversible asthma. Dust and other allergens both indoors and outdoors can exacerbate this condition.
If you or a loved one suffer from any of the above diseases, keeping an HVAC system properly maintained could dramatically improve the air quality in your home and offer some much-needed relief to your symptoms.
Proper Maintenance of Air Filters
Make sure you know how often to change your air filter. Most suburban homes need to change the filter once every 90 days.
If you own a dog or a cat, you may want to consider replacing it more often as their fur dander can dirty the air filter.
If you have multiple pets, or if you or a member of your family has allergies, your filter may need to be changed every 20-45 days.
Your HVAC should be serviced by professionals annually. In case you didn’t know, our maintenance plan covers tune-ups and inspections twice annually as well as six months’ worth of filters during every visit!
Breathing With Ease Thanks to Clean Air
Your home is your sanctuary, the place you should feel safe at the end of the day. Proper maintenance of your HVAC system should help you breathe a sigh of relief since you can concentrate on the important things in life instead of worrying about the quality of the air that you are breathing day in and day out.
Your air quality will dramatically improve, and if paired with proper cleaning techniques throughout the home, allergies and other health issues should also improve since there will be fewer triggers to set them off.
This spring, as dust and pollen infiltrate your home, seeking to impact your life, you can force them to leave you and your loved ones alone. With good air quality services from Boutwell’s Air Masters, you will be empowered to turn up your music playlist and sing along to “Another One Bites the Dust,” knowing that you’ve seriously annihilated the number of invaders affecting your health and peace of mind.
