What affects your Indoor Air Quality?

All kinds of activities contribute to polluting the indoor air we breathe. In addition to industrial causes of pollution, day-to-day activities such as driving, filling your car with gas, dry cleaning, and using household paint can release gases and particles to the air and affect your indoor air quality.

Surprisingly, mold spores & radon gases can be found in your own home, including your basement. In high enough concentrations, these pollutants can harm seriously us.

Basements Air Contribution

The average adult breathes over 3,000 gallons of air, 40%-50% of which comes from the basement, every day. Children breathe even more air per pound of body weight and are more susceptible to air pollution. The elderly are also more sensitive to air pollution because they often have heart or lung disease.

People exposed to high enough levels of certain air pollutants may experience burning in their eyes, an irritated throat, or breathing difficulties. Long-term exposure to air pollutions, such as Radon, can cause cancer and long-term damage to the human immune, neurological, reproductive, and respiratory systems. In extreme cases, radon gas and molds can even cause death.

Improving your Air Quality:

Often basement odors and poor indoor air quality are caused by conditions in the basement. Both crawl spaces and basements sometimes require help:

Control Moisture Levels

Test for Radon every 2 years.

Remove mold, mildew, and decaying items

Filter and circulate the air with a dehumidifier

Fix and Repair Foundation Cracks

Waterproof the basement

Rescon Solutions will help to fix poor indoor air quality by addressing and correcting the current conditions of basements and crawl spaces that cause basement odors and crawl space odors. Serving New Hampshire and Northern MA.