No matter how much you love your home, it can still be making you sick. The good news is, you don’t need to just sit back and take it, especially with Optimum Air on hand to assist you with today’s latest indoor air quality solutions. One product we recommend is a UV (ultra violet) air…
How to Get Rid of Dust Mites
They’re invisible to the naked eye, and found in every home. And, for anyone suffering from allergy or asthma, they can make your life miserable. Who or what are we talking about? None other than dust mites. These tiny creatures nestle down deep into couch cushions, upholstered chairs, carpeting, and bedding. They live off organic…
How to Get Rid of Dry Indoor Air
A “dry house” isn’t one where adult beverages are banned – at least not for purposes of this newsletter. It is, however, a place where the air is so dry, it might be causing you any number of problems, including: Frequent bloody noses Dry skin Dry throat Itchy, watery eyes Static electrical shock A worsening…
How New Carpeting Can Make You Sick
“New” can be a wonderful scent. A new car with leather interior, a fresh coat of paint, new wood furniture…often, there’s nothing quite like it. And yet some new household odors aren’t nearly as inviting. For many people throughout the East Valley, that includes the scent from new carpeting and carpet padding. That familiar odor…
Clean Floors Lead to Cleaner Indoor Air
For many home owners in the DFW area, indoor air quality is a daily concern as they seek to copy with symptoms from allergies, asthma, and other upper respiratory ailments. Still, there’s plenty you can do to help your own cause, and that includes keeping your floors as clean as possible. Here are a few…
How to Remove Allergens from Your Home
Even if you see your house as small, it really isn’t – at least not when it comes to ridding your home of allergens. Allergens can gather and multiply just about anywhere and, room by room, there are different ways to keep the problem under control. Since taking on your entire house is just too…
House Plants Help Clean Your Indoor Air
In one small way, you actually might be better off in an older, draft house vs. one that’s tightly sealed, just like a modern office building. That’s because air tight buildings typically have little if any fresh air circulation which, in turns, gives indoor air pollutants no means of escaping outdoors. Hence, the now all-too-familiar…
The Multiple Benefits of House Plants
It’s a lucky thing most of us don’t suffer from claustrophobia given the amount of time we spend indoors during a typical DFW winter. When the first signs of spring occur, we practically sprint our way to the backyard or front porch to fully embrace the warmer, balmy air and sunshine. In the meantime, there’s…
4 Benefits of a Whole-House Humidifier
You know that “thing” that comes around here in the summer that we all pretty much hate? Come on, you know what we’re talking about. It’s sticky, never seems to go away and, on really bad days, might even follow you indoors? That’s right: humidity! And yet, for all the complaining we do, come winter…
Tips for Cleaner Indoor Air.
Air pollution remains a significant concern throughout the US, indoors and out. In fact, indoor air, on averages is 2-5 times more polluted than outdoor air. Just how bad are things inside many peoples’ homes? According to the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology, 50% of ALL illnesses are either irritated or caused by…