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Many Calgary Homes Are Filled With Toxic Chemicals And Hazardous Airborne Particles
New research on indoor air quality reveals the startling fact that merely walking on your Calgary home's carpet can release potentially harmful particles into the air. These particles, when inhaled, lodge themselves in your lungs, potentially contributing to health problems like asthma. The most surprising finding of the research? That walking on carpet and sitting on furniture released as many fine particles as vacuuming.
This research hints at a much larger problem: poor indoor air quality in the homes of most consumers. Most homes harbor an alarming assortment of potentially toxic chemicals and substances. Carpet particles, as mentioned in this research, are usually made from synthetic fibers derived from petroleum.
These problems aren't limited to Calgary homes, of course: they can and do exist in apartments, hotel rooms, trailers and other dwellings. So what's a person to do?
- Opt for natural fibers throughout the house wherever possible: wool and organic cotton are the best choices.
- Replace synthetic fiber carpets with natural fibers like wool.
- Open windows to circulate the air whenever possible.
- Use electronic air cleaners to capture airborne particles.
- Stock your house with more plants, since plants naturally remove toxic chemicals from the air and replace them with oxygen.
Indoor Air Quality - Government research shows that people spend up to 90% of their time indoors, but research also shows that indoor air quality is 10 to 100 times more polluted than outside air. And did you know that each person breathes an average of two teaspoons of dust, dust mites, pollen, mold, viruses, bacteria, pet dander, carpet fiber and second hand smoke into their lungs each day? Doesn't sound too healthy does it? And your disposable filter in your furnace is trapping less than 10% of the pollutants.
The Most Effective Solution - some say the only effective solution - to this problem is installing an electronic air cleaner. An electronic air cleaner will capture almost 94% of the pollutants in the air in your home! Over it's life an electronic air cleaner costs less than 30 cents per day, a bargain compared to the price of your health. Ask about getting an electronic air cleaner installed in your home today!
