How to Improve Your Indoor Air Quality During Your Next Renovation

If you’re just moving into a home that’s older, or you’ve decided that you’d like to make a few big changes to your current residence, that’s always a good move. With the right improvements to a home, you can raise the quality of life in a residence.

You can even improve the value of that property if your eye towards renovation improves some major aspects of the home, and isn’t just cosmetic.

But there’s one thing people often forget once they start selecting tile, or thinking about knocking down walls, and that’s the air quality. You can compromise it once you start work, but we’re here with some tips to keep your air cleaner and safer.

Install an Air Purification System

This is more of an “after” tip than “during,” but if you want to enjoy the highest possible quality of air while you’re making improvements to your home, consider investing in such a unit.

Air purifiers come in more portable units that can moved from room to room, or you can go for a more comprehensive solution that is installed on your HVAC system and services the entire home.

With an air purification system, your family will enjoy safer, cleaner air than they probably ever have in their lives. This is especially important if you or other family members have any chronic respiratory conditions, such as asthma. Air quality can play a very important role in preventing asthma or other uncomfortable respiratory irritation from occurring on too frequent a basis.

Get Your Basement Checked For Moisture

If you’ve finally decided it’s time to finish that basement, make sure you get the basement and the foundation checked for leaks and moisture. This is important for two reasons. Moisture getting into the basement is going to compromise any drywall you apply to that floor, which will end up costing you money.

More importantly, moisture accumulating in your basement can create the perfect environment for mold. Mold reproduces by sending spores into the air. The bigger the mold infestation, the more spores there are in the air, which everyone will breathe in once an HVAC system starts distributing it throughout the home. It can make healthy people sick, and can dangerously impact the health of people with respiratory conditions, so be careful of this.

Replace Your Filter

Normally, the advice with regards to a furnace filter is to switch it out with a fresh one every season. Three-month intervals are sufficient.

However, if you’re undergoing renovations where new floors are going in, walls are being torn down, wood is being cut and assorted other work, change your schedule.

Instead, you should replace your filter as soon as the work is done. The old filter has likely “worked overtime” with all the particles in the air. In return, that also means the dirtier filter forces your HVAC to work harder, which you’ll pay for with higher energy bills.

Let’s Make It Cleaner

Blaze Air is a family business with an expertise in HVAC systems that’s been here for the homeowners and businesses throughout Winston-Salem, NC since 1979.

We’re always ready to help anyone in the area with prompt, professional service, and we can help you to breathe easy and safely if you want to improve your air.