Are You Making Your IAQ Worse in Fort Worth, TX?

Indoor air quality (IAQ) can significantly affect your mood, health, sleep and daily life. This makes it all the more important to correct any bad habits that may worsen your IAQ. Let’s review some information about a few IAQ-damaging behaviors for homeowners in Fort Worth, TX.

Forgetting to Change Your HVAC Filter

Over time, dust and other debris will attach to your HVAC system’s filters, making them quite dirty. As the air continues passing through the system and streaming through your filters, it can disturb this accumulated debris and scatter it around your home. To prevent this, you should clean or change your filters every 60 to 90 days.

Neglecting HVAC Maintenance

Debris may also creep into other areas of your HVAC system. As with the dirt on your filters, this debris can harm your HVAC system’s ability to perform and eventually spread around your home without you being aware.

Since it isn’t advisable to attempt to clean all of this gunk out on your own, we recommend scheduling HVAC maintenance and having a professional do it. You should do so at least once per year.

Exposing Yourself to VOCs

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are substances that tend not to dissolve in water but that easily vaporize into your indoor air. They can be toxic to people if inhaled for extended periods. They exist in many common household items, including paints, cleaners, pesticides, cosmetics and automotive products.

If you must use them, be sure to reliably dispose of them and ensure there’s plenty of ventilation in the surrounding area. Failure to do these things can taint the air around you and trigger symptoms like headaches, nosebleeds, vomiting and fainting.

The primary responsibility for maintaining the air quality in your home lies with you. If you need assistance, call Performance Heat and Air to request our IAQ services for your Fort Worth, TX, home.

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