Indoor Air Quality: 7 Tips to Keeping Your Indoor Air on Track During Spring Allergy Season

Although it's refreshing to open the windows on the first warm spring days, your indoor air quality could suffer, especially if someone in your home has allergies. Pollen counts surge in the spring, and even though that fresh air feels and smells good, it does increase the irritant load in your home. You can fight spring allergies and improve your indoor air quality throughout the year by following these seven tips for healthier air:

1. Clean or change your air conditioner or furnace's filter and turn the fan to "on." This circulates the air throughout your home without conditioning it, and this will lower the pollen count indoors, especially if you have a denser high-efficiency filter. Before replacing the filter with one that removes more particles, check your owner's manual to verify the maximum density you can use with your HVAC system. If it doesn't say, contact an HVAC professional.
2. Take your shoes off before entering your home. They contain a lot of pollen you collected simply by walking around.
3. Change your clothes and take a shower. Your hair and clothing contain pollen, too.
4. Wash your bedsheets weekly in hot water and dry on the high setting.
5. Use HEPA bags in your vacuum cleaner or double-bag this appliance. When fine particles such as pollen blow from vacuum cleaners, the pollen is distributed far and wide inside your home. HEPA bags trap the smallest of particles, keeping your air pollen- and dust-free.
6. Put the clutter away during the seasons when you or family members suffer most from allergies. Items that you don't need displayed collect dust and pollen, and add to your cleaning chores. Place them in plastic bags or containers in closets, away from freely circulating air.
7. Install an air purifier in your home. Some of them destroy microscopic particles, remove ozone, mold, viruses and bacteria. When these elements are removed, your indoor air quality improves immediately.

At Comfort Services we can help you improve your indoor air quality through filtration and purification. Contact us to learn more. We've been providing HVAC services in the Midlands of South Carolina since 1976.