With the holidays only a couple of weeks away, you’re probably planning to spend more time at home with family or visiting guests. However, if your home isn’t healthy and prepared, you may quickly start noticing strange smells or stale air and even experience breathing difficulties. In order to guarantee health and comfort, managing your home’s indoor air quality is crucial.
So, what can you do to make sure your home is healthy for the holidays?
1. Combustion Safety Testing
When your home’s combustion appliances work well, they should exhaust all combustion gases to the outdoors through a vent, whether that’s a chimney or a flue. Otherwise, combustion byproducts can build up to influence your home’s indoor air quality.
A combustion air zone (CAZ) test ensures any problems with CO are addressed, offering you peace of mind about spending time in your home with family and friends.
2. Insulation & Air Sealing
A warm home during the bitter winter is essential to staying healthy. With a building envelope that isn’t tightly sealed and allows heat to readily escape, you can experience uncomfortable drafts and large temperature changes between rooms.
Stay warm this holiday season by making sure your home has proper insulation installed and is appropriately air sealed. Not only will this make the winter a much more healthy and pleasant one, but you’ll also benefit during the summer when you’ll have a cool and comfortable home.
3. Ventilation
Air sealing and weatherization improve your home’s energy efficiency allowing you to save on energy bills and be more comfortable. However, they have an impact on your home’s health, especially during the winter. When your windows are tightly shut all winter long, your home’s air can quickly become stagnant and musty.
Whole-home mechanical ventilation can address the problem. It will allow fresh air in, while removing stale and polluted air from your home.
Get Ready for the Holidays with Healthy Home™
The expert team at Healthy Home™ Energy & Consulting wants your holidays to be pleasant and healthy. We can help you get your home ready with our CAZ testing, air sealing, insulation and ventilation. As the specialists in indoor air quality, we can make your holidays healthy, happy and comfortable!
