Posted in Air Quality, on March 21, 2018
This spring add tasks that help to improve your indoor air quality to your spring cleaning checklist. Many of the common household tasks and spring time responsibilities already help bring you better indoor air quality, but some can actually have the opposite effect, and bring harmful chemicals or pollutants into your home.
Read MorePosted in Air Quality, on March 09, 2018
Homeowners across Canada are already feeling the impacts of climate change in Canada, from extreme weather events like flooding and forest fires that threaten homes and lives, to more insidious costs like increased heating and cooling bills caused by temperature fluctuations.
Read MorePosted in Air Quality, on February 28, 2018
Having a mold inspection air test during the winter months isn’t generally top on our lists of winter home concerns. Many homeowners consider mold to be a spring, summer and fall problem, when water events can cause sudden floods or heat and humidity stick around and get trapped indoors.
Read MorePosted in Air Quality, on February 23, 2018
There are a myriad of pollutants in your home that can impact indoor air quality and cause you discomfort, illness, and even more serious side effects. Having a high indoor air quality is important for your overall health - you only have to look at the literature about smoking to see how something can have a cumulative negative effect.
Read MorePosted in Air Quality, on February 13, 2018
Winter is tough on your skin, and that seasonal dryness can sometimes be exacerbated by poor indoor air quality. Indoor air pollution and your skin are closely linked, especially in the dryer, colder winter months when we spend more time indoors.
Read MorePosted in Air Quality, on February 06, 2018
When you’re busy scrubbing your home to a squeaky clean shine, you aren’t necessarily thinking about the cleaning products that impact your indoor air quality. Regular and thorough cleaning is key to overall health and wellness - but you can inadvertently do more harm than good by choosing cleaning products that impact your indoor air quality.
Read MorePosted in Air Quality, on January 26, 2018
This winter, keep you and your family comfortable and healthy by paying close attention to the winter allergy relief that high indoor air quality can bring you. Air quality isn’t just about the air we breathe outside and during the winter months especially, those of us in the northern hemisphere spend most of our days indoors, whether at the office or at home.
Read MorePosted in Air Quality, on January 17, 2018
With winter officially arriving on December 21st, the cold months ahead of us can have a direct affect on your indoor air quality. During the winter months we spend more time indoors, so thinking about your indoor environment and the air you breathe can have a huge effect on your health and wellness.
Read MorePosted in Air Quality, on January 10, 2018
As the mercury drops, we generally spend more of our days curled up indoors to evade bad weather, but poor indoor air quality could be affecting your enjoyment of those quiet winter months. Something that can cause poor indoor air quality is simply raising the heat in your home.
Read MorePosted in Air Quality, on January 06, 2018
Cold and flu season is already well underway in Toronto and the GTA, but do you know whether you have flu season symptoms or poor indoor air quality symptoms?
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