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Your Furnice Filter Posted By: knock-knock

What a Furnace Filter Can do for You

Traditionally, furnace filters were designed to protect the furnace and fans. With increased air quality awareness, some filters are now being installed to reduce exposure to particles which can affect your health.

There is a wide variety of furnace filters available. However, you may find it confusing to select one which is suitable. This purpose of this document is to provide you with guidance when selecting your furnace filter.

What Airborne Particles are Found in Your Home?

The particles you breathe in your home come from a variety of sources including:

dust on floors or other surfaces that is disturbed by activity in the house
dust generated by smoking, burning candles, cooking, doing laundry, etc.
hair and skin flakes from humans or pets
particles from the outside air which come into your home with infiltrating air
Some particles are so small that they are inhaled and then exhaled without being trapped in your lungs. Some larger particles are trapped in your nose and throat and never reach your lungs. Still other particles are too large to be inhaled. Continue reading

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How Air Duct Cleaning Improves Your Homes Air Quality Posted By: Jim Knight

Although various research articles tend to differ on the exact number, it hovers around 1 billion per cubic meter. I’m talking about the number of bacteria and other microscopic organism which exist in the air around us! No reason to get afraid though, because this number has lingered steadily over millions of years. And our body has developed a certain immunity system against these factors in the process.

However, with pollution on an all time high, this number is increasing with leaps and bounds in recent times. One would hope that even if all that is to happen, the air inside our home would surely be safer. And here in comes the importance of air duct cleaning.

With the enormous amount of dust and pollution in the environment today, air duct cleaning is a must. Let us take quick review of the benefits that lie with the process.

Health issues: The air around us can be a huge potential threat towards our health, if not treated properly. Breathing diseases like asthma, lungs cancer and other chronic heart diseases are mainly caused by the polluted air that is breathed in. Continue reading

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A Few Things To Consider About Portland Duct Cleaning Posted By: Justin Brunsch

Any house will have a lot of dirt and dust accumulate in it. All the pollutants from outside will come inside, and it will give the occupants of the house breathing problems. It is therefore important to keep the house as clean as possible, but no matter how hard one tries, there are certain places that only professionals can clean. In Portland, cleaning ducts is important because there is lots of dust in that area. Portland duct cleaning needs to be done regularly for best results.Portland can be found in the state of Oregon, which is in the western part of the US. The main economic activity that occurs here is logging. Because of this, there is lots of dust that goes in the air every time a tree is cut. This dust will eventually enter into people’s homes. Unless it is cleaned out, it will go into people’s lungs.Indoor air quality is important because it affects people’s health. There is an increase in the rates of asthma and other breathing ailments, and part of the reason is that humans are inhaling pollutants that they shouldn’t. Continue reading

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Indoor Air Pollution: Be Familiar With It

Indoor Air Pollution: Be Familiar With It Basically fresh air has no color, smell, and taste. On the other hand it can be mixed with other matters thus there are particles we see at times with our naked eyes. Particles … Continue reading

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Lungs disease: prevention is better than control

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One of the top concerns among environmentalists today is indoor expose pollution. Scientific grounds indicates that indoor dirtying is far more dangerous than outdoor pollution. Research has evidenced that most individuals spend most 22%of the daily time indoors, either in office or in homes. Continue reading

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