Make Your Home a Green Zone
Every home can be made "greener." There are ways you can tweak up your home to make it healthier and more environmentally friendly. Humidifiers, HEPA armed vacuum cleaners, and riding the home of moulds, fungi and dust mites will go a long way. Smokers fill the house with toxins, so quitting cigarettes is the best and most inexpensive thing that can be done to clean the air.
Your home should be where “green” begins. Making your home as green as possible can only mean good things for your family. Here are a few tips on how to green up your house to ensure the welfare of you and yours. If at all possible, humidifiers should be in every home to minimize mildew, mould, and dust mites. Humidifiers are relatively inexpensive and will lower exposure levels to moulds and dust mites by 50 percent.
Finding mould in your bathroom means you need to get creative fast. Look inside the shower or toilets a few days after the last cleaning. Acid is the way to get rid of mould and any fungi that you find growing in your bathroom, and vinegar is naturally acidic. The kind you buy off the grocery shelves at 5 percent concentration is exactly what you need. With no water added, it kills moulds, germs, fungi and bacteria.
You can vacuum until your fingers fall off and you’re just blowing dust around. What you need is a HEPA armed vacuum cleaner. HEPA filters suck air in and clean it. They pull in allergens like mould, pet dander and fungi and trap them in an exhaust system rather than blowing them back in your house. You can retro fit your vacuum with a HEPA designated filter. If you plan to buy a new one, carpet cleaners from Islington recommend you to look for a minimum efficiency of 99.97% at a particle size of 0.3.
Your stove should be properly vented and air filters should be installed, but if someone in the house is smoking, those efforts are a complete waste of time. The biggest contributor to bad indoor air is cigarette smoke. If you don’t stop smoking, any changes you make to improve air quality is wasted. Second hand smoke is a known carcinogen, containing nicotine and toxic chemicals. Even tobacco smoke that clings to curtains, rugs, walls, clothes, and furniture can effect yours and your children’s health. One in five adults still smoke, if you are among them smoke outside the house, better yet, quit smoking.
Bugs can be an aggravation, but don’t use chemicals to get rid of them. Diatomaceous earth is a rock powder that kills roaches, bugs, fleas, and ticks and is completely natural and harmless.
Green leafy plants take in toxins and give out oxygen, which is a natural way to purify the air you breath, and they are lovely to look at. Gardening Islington recommend plants like the butterfly palm, philodendron and the rubber plant that strip toxins such as formaldehyde, benzene, and carbon monoxide out of the air. Anywhere you have a sunny window is a perfect place for plants.
These are the first steps into a greener living and better environment in the house. Getting rid of cleaning chemicals may save your life and not only. Don't neglect the health of the planet, start protecting it.