Your home’s air quality can lead to health issues such as allergies and asthma. It’s essential to improve indoor air quality to protect your family’s health. But how do you know if your indoor air quality has been degraded by harmful materials? Here are some ways you can perform air quality tests.
Evaluate Your Health Symptoms
You should be observant to be able to recognize if there’s someplace or something that makes your symptoms better or worse. For example, you may experience headaches, coughing, or sneezing when you walk into a particular room. You may experience certain health symptoms at home and feel better when in the office. This points to your home having bad air quality.
Use Air-Quality Monitors
Air-quality monitors are devices that check for indoor air pollution. Some monitors come with companion apps, while simple monitors show you the details on their screens. The best air-quality monitors to purchase are those with sensors that measure humidity, temperature, volatile organic compounds (VOCs), the level of particulate matter, and Air Quality Index (AQI).
Monitor Radon and Carbon Monoxide Levels
Radon is an odorless and colorless gas. It is only second to smoking as the leading causes of lung cancer. You can test for radon using a radon test kit, which you can purchase in home-improvement stores or online. You can also have a professional do the test for you.
Carbon monoxide is also colorless and odorless. It can be deadly when left unchecked. Install carbon monoxide detectors on all the floors of your home to monitor the levels of the gas in your house.
Hire a Professional
You can also choose to work with an indoor air quality specialist. The specialist will perform a professional air quality test to identify sources of air pollution in your home.
Besides performing air quality tests, you can boost indoor air quality by keeping your home’s relative humidity levels between 30% and 50%, having working carbon monoxide detectors, and using air purifiers. Contact us at Ace Hardware Home Services for the best heating, cooling, and indoor air quality test in the Dayton area.
