Blog Category: IAQ – Indoor Air Quality

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Spring is a beautiful time here in Florida, but just around the corner is the heat and humidity of summer, so you need to have maintenance done on your air conditioning units. Planned maintenance helps prevent breakdowns, maintains the efficiency of your unit, and is recommended by the manufacturers. When our technicians come out, they do a comprehensive evaluation of your unit and check for loose wires and any other potential issues.

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Due to these trying times of COVID cases spiking throughout the U.S., we have decided to recognize December as “Indoor Air Quality Month.” Today we’re bringing you along for the installation of some new air filtration systems.

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Achoo! It’s that time of year — allergy season! If you’re sneezing, coughing and have red, itchy eyes there are ways to address that and it could begin at home! How to allergy-proof your home is a topic the #geothermal professionals from Symbiont Service talk with customers about.

Indoor air, especially when the house has been closed up for the winter months and now is closed up so you can more efficiently run the air conditioner can have ten times more allergens than when you’re standing out-of-doors! When you consider this, you can see how you need to improve the indoor air quality of your home as a way to allergy-proof it.

How To Allergy-Proof Your Home

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In Florida, indoor air quality is a concern in the winter — when it’s cold outside and the furnace is running AND in the summer when it’s hot and humid outside and you’re indoors and the air conditioner is running. Have you ever wondered, “How clean is your indoor air?”

It is a question you should be asking as many Florida homeowners deal with, and suffer through, poor indoor air quality. When you live in an area of the country where the windows may be closed almost year round, you are trapping unhealthy air into your home; that leads to indoor air pollution.

How Clean Is Your Indoor Air?

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An attached garage is an ideal addition to a home — especially in Englewood, Florida. An attached garage allows you to park your car in out of the heat and the elements and lets you easily carry groceries or other items from the car to the house without having to brave the elements yourself. Have you ever wondered, “does an attached garade impact indoor air quality?” It might.

With an attached garage, any item — air or debris — that gets into the garage can more easily enter your home. This can be an issue especially if you store chemicals in the car. When you have an attached garage, you want to refrain from running your vehicle in the garage as this can fill your home with vehicle exhaust and dangerous air pollutants.

Improve the indoor air quality of your Florida home when you make changes to your attached garage:

Does An Attached Garage Impact Indoor Air?

• When possible, keep the garage door opened so fresh air can get in and contaminated air can escape. Keep the windows open as well to allow for air circulation.
• Don’t ever run the vehicle in the garage — especially with the door closed. When you do this you will be allowing a build up of carbon monoxide and other emossions from the vehicle into the car and the house.
• Contaminants, cleaning products and chemicals shouldn’t be stored in an attached garage. Store chemicals, including: pesticides, chemicals, paint, gasoline, cleaning items and other unhealthy materials in a separate storage unit. If you don’t have access to an additional storage area, store harmful chemicals in a clearly marked airtight container.
• Store lawnmowers in a separate storage area if possible.
• Adding an ehaust fan to the garage will help remove harmful emissions and keep the air quality higher in the garage and in your home as well. This is especially important if you don’t have a separate storage area for the lawnmower and chemicals.
• Make certain your house and attached garage are sealed and that any adjoining walls are pr0perly sealed as well. If your attached garage is unfinished, add insulation and drywall between the house and the garage; this will provide a barrier to air pollutants and keep them from entering the home.

We have tips on how homeowners in Englewood, Florida can improve their home’s indoor air quality. Contact us for indoor air quality, geothermal or HVAC questions at Symbiont Service Corp.

We educate customers about energy and home comfort issues (specific to HVAC systems).  For information about indoor air quality and other HVAC topics, download our free Home Comfort Resource guide.

Symbiont Service Corp. serves Englewood, Florida and the surrounding areas. Visit our website to see our special offers and get started today!     

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Air conditioning is great — if you’re trying to keep cool in the summer. Your furnace is ideal for keeping your family warm in the winter. If you’re spending a lot of time indoors with the windows and doors closed we have tips to improve indoor air quality. Breathing fresh clean air is, naturally crucial to good health. If you’re a homeowner with pets in the home, you are also adding an additional layer of potential contaminants you’re breathing in while you’re indoors.

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Mold is a normal and common part of our natural surroundings. When mold invades our homes, however, it becomes an aggravation and a potential danger to our health. Controlling mold in your home is vital to keeping this nuisance from getting out of control.

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An air-purification system can be a boon to the respiratory health of you and your family. These systems are designed to neutralize and eliminate microscopic pollutants in your home’s indoor air, helping you avoid the many health problems than can result from prolonged exposure to indoor air pollution.

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Home ventilation is defined as the exchange of stale indoor air with fresh outdoor air — and there are three major reasons why it is very important. First, it helps you boost your indoor air quality by removing contaminants and pollutants from your home. These contaminants can include carbon monoxide, radon gas, formaldehyde, dust and organic pollutants such as dust mites, bacteria and viruses.

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The air inside your home can contain 10 times more allergy-inducing particles than the air found outdoors. This creates an uncomfortable and unpleasant home environment. But with these five easy ways to allergy-proof your Florida home, you will increase your indoor air quality and improve your overall health.

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