Indoor Air Quality (IAQ)
Indoor air quality (IAQ) is important for many reasons. It can affect your daily tasks, cause you allergies, and even make you sick. There are a lot of reasons for indoor air to be bad. Pollutants float in the air all around us and these particles stay trapped for longer when dealing with indoors. Polluted outdoor air could enter inside your home, building, warehouse, etc. through natural ventilation. Opening doors or windows, having cracks and leaks through seams and/or other reasons could invite polluted air inside. If not properly vented out, then it’ll stay lingering indoor for longer periods of time.
On top of outdoor air entering inside, the indoor air could have allergens floating around causing the air quality to be lower than the outdoor.
- Dust
- Mold
- Pet Dander
- Allergens
- Smoke
- Particles from cooking
- Carpet
- Dust Mites
- And the list goes on
All these could take affect on indoor air quality. Also, IAQ control is probably more important now than ever before. With all the Coronavirus issues going around, it is definitely important to have clean air that is free of floating particles.
How Does Indoor Air Quality Affect Businesses?
Trying to work while your allergies are at an all time high will impact your workflow and cause you misery when trying to complete tasks. It can impact productivity, cause illness and discomfort, as well as cost you time and money due to the affect air quality has on an employee’s overall well-being. On top of affecting employees and work-flow, it could take an impact on your clients or partners visiting the premises. People visiting that have breathing problems or other allergies from dirty air could be negative for your business as well. People want to walk into an environment and feel safe and clean. Following basic protocols is definitely a must and could save you time and money in the long run.
How To Deal With IAQ
Taking steps to better your IAQ is beneficial for everyone associated with the area. It helps with productivity for the workers as well as help clients feel like they’re in a nice and clean environment that they’ll like to visit time and time again. There are many factors to take into consideration when trying to improve your indoor air quality. First thing that may come into mind are using quality air filters. It’s important to have a proper ventilation system in place and be sure to use efficient air filtration in your HVAC system. We offer a variety of high quality filters along with HEPA filters made specifically to fit your machines.
On top of using a good ventilation system with quality EFS filters, keeping vents and ducts clean is also a must. You don’t want dirty air circulating the room and running through your air stream. Cleaning carpets regularly, wiping down desks and walls, and also dusting ceiling fans and lights can all aid in helping to improve indoor air quality.
Commercial and Industrial Air Filtration
While we offer a range of high quality, high efficiency commercial and industrial air filters, it is important to use the right filters and have the right systems in place. Advanced Filtration Concepts can help with all recommendations, installations, and coil cleaning services as well as supply you with our EFS filters. For any information, please don’t hesitate to Contact Us!
It’s pretty interesting that you touched on how cooking particles can get into the air and cause some issues for people. My spouse and I are trying to get clean air in our home this year so that we are much healthier. We need to get some filters or other products in our home so that our air quality is much better than it is outdoors.