Whatever the season, ventilating your home is an essential gesture. Indeed, indoor air is generally more polluted than outdoor air, a pollution that can have unfortunate consequences on our health.
Our furniture, our walls, our carpets, our rugs, our PVC windows or even our clothes diffuse daily volatile organic compounds (VOC) in L’air of our interior. From harmful substances additional cigarettes can also come from the cigarettes we smoke or household products that we use.
Confined environments with little or no ventilation tend to concentrate all these pollutants, which are factors of irritation of the upper respiratory tract or increase the risk of infections.
How long to air your house?
To prevent an increase in relative humidity, the appearance of molds, mold spores, mushrooms or the retention ofallergens or from polluting chemicals, doctors recommend airing your house for 15 to 30 minutes a day. It is better to do it several times, at the beginning or at the end of the day, at times when the outdoor pollution is lowest.
Including thewinter. THE’Environment and Energy Management Agency ensures that opening several windows in your home for a few minutes a day, heating off, allows both to sanitize theair interior and not to waste too much heator even improve heating efficiency by allowing less humid air to enter.
Air out after cooking, DIY, a shower, cleaning …
If the ventilation of the house must be daily, it must also be done in certain specific situations:
- after a DIY or work session – removal of dust and any chemicals;
- after a shower or cleaning – removal of excess moisture;
- after cooking, to eliminate bad smells.
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