Eco Tips: How to Keep Your Air At Home Clean

Grease, dust and dirt not only settle on surfaces in your home, resulting in sticky coatings everywhere, but they also contribute to air impurities. By controlling or eliminating dust and chemicals in your house you can keep the air in your home clean.

Here are some simple things to do to help “clear the air” in your home:

- Open windows whenever possible, especially when cooking or cleaning.

- Use covers on cooking pans, particularly when frying – use a splatter guard

- Use steam-or oily vapor producing appliances under the hood of the stove with the ventilating fan turned on. Use the fan to control cooking odors and smoke as well.

- Clean high, flat surfaces several times a year.

- Turn on the bathroom exhaust fan to keep steam from collecting dirt and diffusing it throughout the house.

- Change/clean air conditioning filters regularly.

- Maintain your vacuum cleaner so dust is not being blown back into the air as you vacuum.

- Prevent dust and dirt from entering the house with doormats and weather stripping.

- Dust surfaces regularly.

- Don’t smoke.

Christine Watson