The condition of air significantly affects human health. Already not only in the cities, but also in rural zone air is strongly polluted by dust, various gaseous products which structure depends on the nearby industrial and power enterprises, land relief, wind rose etc.
Than we breathe?
At our dwellings there is huge amount of organic and inorganic compounds which generally can reach up to 10 mg on 1 sq.m of housing:
- Oxides of carbon and nitrogen
- Formaldehyde
- Phenol
- Asbestos
- Compounds of lead
- Tobacco smoke
- Alcohols
- Radon
And it is yet not full list of what walls, floor and ceilings, upholstered furniture, carpets and linoleum, household appliances, medicines of household chemicals and other can allocate.
From where does the danger go?
- Gas-fire: at operation, at fault allocates CO2, to CO – products of incomplete combustion.
- Components of the gluing materials of furniture, electrical insulation: emit formaldehyde.
Several recommendations which will help you to keep clean air in the house:
1. Do not encumber the apartment with furniture. The its is less, the space is more and air is purer.
2. It is better to store clothes and footwear from synthetic materials in the closed cabinets.
3. Level of radioactivity increases at the expense of radon congestion. It is possible to reduce its concentration thanks to frequent airing.
4. Regularly clean up the apartment. Damp cleaning of floors, walls and ceiling, cleaning of carpets and furniture by means of the vacuum cleaner – all this promotes cleaning of living space from dust and hazardous substances.
5. Decorate your house fresh with flowers. Fresh well-groomed flowers – not only esthetics, but also health.
6. Before windows of your apartment plant bushes, decorative trees, make green hedge. Plants will well protect from dust and gas contamination.
7. In the fall and in the spring when viruses of flu and other infections are especially active, it is useful to carry out cleaning with use of chlorine-containing medicines.
8. Try to buy and use eco-friendly materials: clothes, children's toys, decor objects, ware, etc. Even at repair give preference to ecologically safe products made of paper (if it is wall-paper), from tree (plinth, doors, floor coverings), etc.
9. In time delete such unsafe things as the broken mercury thermometer, the fused energy saving lamps from the apartment.
Let your house will be safe!