The basement. Home to a myriad of things we put away for storage, college kids using it a “pad”, and as a not-so-secret “underground lab” for when we need to work on special projects that may or may not be picked up by big business. But it can also be a breeding ground of poor indoor air quality that can make any of us suffer while down there. The basement is often an afterthought for those of us too busy with maintaining cleaner IAQ in our normal living spaces but those areas which we...

As seasons change, so do the needs of family household. In the winter, for example, you're more likely to turn the inside of your home into your children's playground, as winter storms and frigid weather make outside play impossible. Letting your children play inside the house, while supervised, is alright to do. However, you have to make sure you're on top of your indoor air quality. Indoor Air Quality can Breed Illness during Winter. The closed environment of a home during Winter months can...

Oftentimes, we take the act of breathing for granted and forget that what we breathe inside our own homes is not always as clean and clear as the air outside. Sometimes what we think we know about outside pollutants and chemicals can cause us to remain indoors, because we think we're sparing our lungs by doing so. But now that we know that such thinking is, at best, faulty, we can take measures into our own hands on improving our indoor air quality. So how can we improve the quality of the air...