Did you know that 15% of Canadians feel down during long, cold winter days? While letting in light and exercising can boost your mood, improving indoor air quality can help you feel comfortable and breathe easily indoors. Here are five products and services that can help:
Clean or Change Your HVAC Filters
Whether you have a heat pump or a furnace, it is important to clean or change its filter. A clean filter ensures optimal airflow and enhances the efficiency of your heating system. Clean filters also trap contaminants such as dust, pet dander, and other airborne particles, which leaves you with cleaner air circulating through your home.
Get a Duct Cleaning
Similarly to cleaning or changing filters, cleaning your heating system’s ducts can greatly improve the indoor air quality of your home. Professional duct cleaning removes all the dust, debris, and other contaminants throughout your duct system and improves the efficiency of your heating system. Duct cleaning can also lead to a better smelling home and less dust on your furniture.
Maintain Your Heating Units
For the best chance of staying comfortable through the coldest nights and days of winter, book a professional maintenance service for your heat pump or furnace. This will identify any potential problems before a cold snap. It also keeps your system running efficiently and cost-effectively, which means winter-long comfort and confidence in your system.
Add an Indoor Air Quality Product
While cleaning your filters and ducts is an excellent way to improve the indoor air quality of your home and help you breathe more easily, you may want to go even further to keep your air healthy for you and your family. Air cleaners and air purifiers are both extraordinary products that can help prevent illness and even improve the overall health of people who spend a lot of time indoors.
Air cleaners capture impurities and only let the purest of air pass through and circulate through your home.
UV lights in ductwork fight bacteria and other pollutants to prevent them from reforming in your clean ducts.
Air purifies installed in duct systems produce ions that reduce pathogens, allergens, particles, smoke, and odours without creating harmful byproducts.
Control Your Humidity
Prevent dry skin and improve allergy symptoms by keeping the humidity in your home between 30 and 35% throughout the winter. This may require the use of a humidifier to attain an appropriate relative humidity level. This contributes to a healthy indoor air quality by minimizing virus transmission and reducing the risk of allergic reactions and asthma attacks. Proper humidity levels also help to maintain the feeling of warmth
Improve Your Indoor Air Quality This Winter
Stay healthy and feel your best this winter with professional HVAC and indoor air quality services from Aire One Heating & Cooling KW. Choose from our air quality products such as furnace filters, air cleaners and purifiers, and humidifiers, or a service such as duct cleaning and furnace or heat pump maintenance to ensure adequate functioning and quality comfort through the coldest nights and days of winter. Contact us today to book an appointment in Kitchener, Waterloo, Cambridge, Guelph, Stratford, Fergus or the surrounding areas.