Blog Category: Ventilation

When is the last time you gave your home and its ventilation a thought? We’ll bet it’s been a long time… or never! Is your home properly ventilated? It’s a question the technicians from Symbiont Service Corp think about and talk with homeowners and commercial building owners about when they pay a service visit.

What is home ventilation?

When we are discussing it, we define it as an “exchange of stale indoor air with fresh outdoor air.” When you think about that, you definitely want to make certain you’re breathing fresh outdoor air rather than stale air, right? Stale air can include pet (and human) dander and dead skin, toxins from household cleaners and even mold spores. 

Home ventilation is important because it can also eliminate contaminants and pollutants from the air.

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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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With proper home ventilation systems in place, homeowners in Florida’s humid climate avoid significant moisture problems. With moisture present in the home, health problems ensue from issues like mold and mildew buildup, which can also cause damage to the home’s structure and materials inside.

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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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Homes today are more energy efficient than ever before. However, tightly sealed, energy-efficient homes can develop problems with stale and stagnant air, poor air quality and too much or little humidity. Fortunately, there is a solution. Energy recovery ventilators (ERVs) are whole-house systems that supply your family with fresh conditioned air year-round, help control moisture and humidity in your home and help ventilate your home while maintaining energy efficiency.

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Did you know that your garage can change the air quality inside your home? If you have an attached garage, anything that gets in the air inside the garage can enter your home. If you keep a lot of harmful pollutants and chemicals in your attached garage, or if you run your car inside the garage frequently, you can fill your home with dangerous air pollutants. You can improve the indoor air quality of your Florida home by making some of the following changes in your garage:

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If you’ve been implementing air-sealing techniques to make your home more energy efficient, it’s time to consider your home’s ventilation needs as well. Airtight homes don’t allow pollution to escape. This leads to allergy problems, increased asthma attacks in sensitive individuals and moisture buildup. Ventilation is the answer to all of these issues.

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Are you or anyone else in your family having trouble with allergies? A whole house air purification system may be the answer for you. These air purification systems work to clear the air throughout your entire home.

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Poor indoor air quality can cause a host of physical problems, from acute allergies to chronic health issues that result from dangerous but invisible particulates moving quietly through the atmosphere. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, three tried-and-true tactics can be taken to improve the air quality of your home on a year-round basis. 

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We can’t always assume that the air in our homes is clean and free from potentially health-damaging particulates. While numerous options for improving indoor air quality are available to homeowners, electronic air cleaners are especially effective, reliable and easy to use and maintain. They save you money by keeping your HVAC system clean, thus lowering maintenance and/or repair costs, and never need replacement filters, only an occasional cleaning of select components.

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