The Truth About Your Home’s Air Quality
May 16, 2013
Dirty air defeats the purpose of having an air conditioning unit in your home. After all, your unit is intended to keep you feeling cool and comfortable. When your home’s indoor air quality is not conducive to these conditions, there may be some problems with the unit.
As a Minneapolis air conditioning company, we at Northern's One Hour Heating & Air Conditioning® are familiar with this state and its surrounding cities. Being the metropolitan area that it is, the atmosphere is filled with air pollutants and contaminants from industries, automobiles, and other environmental emissions. Once they are emitted into the air, they find their way indoors quite easily. It is important, then, to keep up with regular maintenance, which includes air duct cleaning.
Do You Know What’s In the Air?
Pollutants and contaminants from the outside air easily find their way inside your home. Ongoing household activities such as sweeping, cooking, cleaning, and spraying insecticides and chemicals add to the host of invisible collection.
Without any knowledge of what the air contains because they are unseen, you and members of your household breathe in the contaminated air, which may include:
- Dust
- Dirt
- Bacteria
- Mold
- Hair
- Allergens
- Chemicals
- Carbon monoxide
How Air Affects Health
Without good indoor air quality, your family’s health could be in serious trouble. They may suffer from a wide range of adverse health effects, including skin rashes, itchy eyes, runny noses, asthma, and other respiratory conditions. These are serious health problems that often require medical attention, and they can easily be prevented and alleviated by maintaining your home’s air quality.
Death has also been reported due to people becoming ill from breathing in polluted air. Chemicals and gases like carbon monoxide put your family’s health at extreme risk. With an effective HVAC system, your air is better protected. So, air duct cleaning and other aspects of servicing are crucial to your family’s health.
Northern's One Hour Heating & Air Conditioning® is proud to be your Minneapolis air conditioning company. Call us at (763) 284-8639 for your clean air needs.