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Improve the Quality of Indoor Air
- Eliminate sources of pollution by sealing off insulation, adjusting gas appliances to emit less leakage, ridding your home of chemicals and tobacco smoke, etc.
- Increase ventilation by opening windows and doors, turning on exhaust fans in bathrooms and kitchens and adding mechanical devices where necessary.
- Maintain extra ventilation while painting, using chemicals, cooking with unvented gas stoves, smoking, etc.
- Increase mechanical ventilation rate by installing heat recovery ventilators or air-to-air heat exchangers. They draw outside air into the home and conserve energy by recovering the heat from the air that is exhausted to the outdoors.
- Have a professional check your chimney, non-electric furnace, water heater, stove and other appliances regularly.
- Make sure you burn the correct kind of wood and have good ventilation for fireplaces and wood burning stoves.
- Check product labeling to make sure you have the safest products possible for cleaning, personal care, etc.
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