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6 Obvious Signs Your Home Is an Indoor Air Quality Disaster

Most people spend at least a little time each day cleaning and freshening up their living spaces so they look presentable. But wiping counters, dusting, vacuuming, and mopping only scratch the surface when it comes to getting your home truly clean.

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How Outside Air Pollution Affects Your Indoor Air Quality and Your Health

Most people would venture to say the quality of the air inside their homes is pretty good — after all, it’s not like you’re breathing in the toxic pollution that hangs in the air outside, right? Hate to break it to you, but that notion is utterly false. In fact, experts believe the quality of the indoor air we breathe is up to five times worse than the air outside, which means when we spend a lot of time indoors, we’re putting our health at risk.

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7 Household Cleaning Habits That Contribute to Poor Indoor Air Quality

The way you clean your house and the frequency with which you clean it may be contributing to poor indoor air quality inside your home. Click to learn about common cleaning habits that make your indoor air dirtier.

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5 Easy Indoor Air Quality Hacks

Whether or not you realize it, the air you breathe inside of your home and workplace is considerably more contaminated than the air outdoors. And if you’re like most Minnesotans who spend the majority of their days inside during the winter season, breathing that highly polluted indoor air all day long can have negative consequences for your health.

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Indoor Humidity: Can It Be Dangerous For Your Health?

If you’re like most homeowners, you don’t pay much mind to the relative humidity levels inside your house — but you should. Most people only notice humidity when it becomes excessive or when there’s not quite enough of it, but for health reasons, there’s a happy medium for indoor humidity that every homeowner should strive to maintain. What can happen when humidity levels get out of control inside your home? Our Dust Doctors team explains below.

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Why Is Indoor Air Quality Important?

Indoor air quality has received a whole lot more attention in recent years as people are now spending more time indoors than ever before. If you’re like most Americans who spend about 90% of their day inside a building, you should know that the air you’re breathing is likely two to five times more polluted than the air outdoors.

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Can Cooking Negatively Affect Your Indoor Air Quality?

Have you ever thought about what affects the air quality inside your home? If you haven’t, now is the time to start. According to the EPA, the air inside your house is likely more polluted than the air outside it, and if you routinely cook at home, your food preparation could be contributing to that indoor air pollution.

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The Best Indoor Plants for Air Quality

Did you know keeping a few plants in your house can help improve your indoor air quality? It’s true! Not only are houseplants a nice addition to any home’s interior aesthetic, but according to NASA, they’re also effective natural air purifiers. While all plants filter the air to some degree, some are better at it than others and you can check them out in our list below!

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Is Your Home Giving You Sick Building Syndrome?

Ever heard of sick building syndrome? Many people haven’t, and unfortunately, that lack of information is negatively affecting their health. At Dust Doctors, it’s always been our goal to help Twin Cities residents breathe the cleanest indoor air possible. And now, at a time when we’re spending more time indoors than ever, paying close attention to our indoor air quality is critical.

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4 Simple Tips to Improve Your Indoor Air Quality

Do you suffer from indoor allergies or respiratory irritation? Improving your indoor air quality can make a massive difference in the severity of your symptoms. According to the EPA, the quality of the air we breathe indoors is up to 10 times worse than outdoor air, which means we’re living in polluted homes — even if we don’t realize it.

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