Indoor air quality can affect your health, so regular indoor air quality evaluation can be an important part of keeping yourself and your family safe and healthy. But did you know that some rooms in your house may be more prone to air quality problems than others? Here are some of the rooms that may need extra attention where indoor air quality is concerned.
1. Bathrooms
Bathrooms often have higher humidity in their air because of all the water-using activities that take place there. Not only do you shower in the bathroom, but there's standing water in the toilet all day as well; these can both affect humidity, which in turn can encourage mold and mildew.
Because bathrooms are so frequently plagued by mold and mildew problems, you need to be extra careful about indoor air quality in these areas. Ventilation, mold remediation, and indoor air quality assessment may be in order.
2. Kitchen
Your kitchen has a lot of water-using activities as well. The kitchen's air quality can be affected by two main factors: cooking activities and the dishwasher. When you cook, smoke and soot from drips in the oven (or from cooking processes such as searing and toasting) can get into the air. And the dishwasher can vaporize chemicals and other pollutants into the air as well as letting out clouds of steam.
3. Pool room
A pool room with an indoor pool can have some of the most challenging air quality in your house. Like a bathroom, the pool room tends to have higher humidity. But unlike the bathroom, the pool room tends to have an extremely large area of standing water. And the water in pools tends to be treated with chemicals such as chlorine, which means that the humidity in the room is chemical-filled as well, and the room may need extra air quality control measures.
4. Bedroom
Your bedroom is where you spend the entire night. If you're getting the widely recommended eight hours per night, then you spend at least a third of your life in bed. So you need to especially keep an eye on the indoor air quality in this room since you spend so much time there.
These are some of the rooms that are most important to keep an eye on when it comes to indoor air quality. Talk to your indoor air quality evaluation expert today to learn more about how often you should have the air tested and what you can do to keep the air healthy.