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Keep A Close Watch on Air Quality Inside Your Home
According to the Environmental Protection Agency, the air quality in your home can be up to 10 times more polluted than outdoor air.
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Attic Ventilation
We recently wrote about ice dams on roof overhangs, how they are created and how to prevent them. Often, there isn't enough room in our column to elaborate on all of the methods available to solve a particular problem. So, this week we will cover various attic ventilation methods.
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Attic Ventilation
Does lowering your utility bill, improving your home's comfort, cutting down on moisture and mildew, preventing an ice dam and-or a roof leak and extending the life of your roof sound appealing? Read on!
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Beating the Heat at Home
There are several ways to beat the heat at home. An air conditioner (central, wall or window-mounted), a swamp cooler, a ceiling paddle fan and a portable tabletop fan are popular means. However, each of these systems will be required to work harder if an attic is not properly ventilated.
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Cool Off and Save With an Attic Fan
Intense solar radiation in the summer can send temperatures in the attic soaring to 150 degrees and higher. While you may not spend time in your attic, you should be concerned with its temperature because it acts like a radiator transferring significant heat to the living space below. What's the answer? Ventilate.
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Dangrous Dust
Dust is an invisible but substantial threat. Are you safe?
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Dealing With the Dry-home Syndrome
Whereas your home's heating system is designed to keep you warm during the winter, it can, in the process, cause your house to become too dry.
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Fighting the Mildew Battle
Sweaty windows, peeling wallpaper, mold-covered walls and musty odors are symptoms of a poorly ventilated home. The clothes washer, dryer, shower, wash basin, and stove, among others, produce water vapor. It is an excess of this water vapor that causes problems.
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Is Your Home Making You Sick?
There's plenty of concern, with good reason, about air pollution. But many people are unaware that indoor pollution can be just as bad as, or even worse than the outdoor kind.
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Newest fans quietly clear bathroom air
Exhaust fans, ducted to the outside, remove moisture and prevent humidity and odor problems - but, you need to have the correct kind of fan.
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Regulating Indoor Humidity
What do creaking floors, condensation and sneezing have in common? Each can
be related to the humidity level in your home. Find out more by clicking here!
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The Advantages of Ceiling Fans
While many people install decorative ceiling-mount paddle-fans for cosmetic purposes, such fans serve a number of useful purposes. Besides looking good, ceiling fans provide improved air circulation and, with an optional light kit, enhanced lighting.
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Ventilating Your Bathroom
A bathroom must have adequate ventilation to prevent the buildup of moisture, mildew and odors. A window alone may be inadequate and certainly will not move the volume of air that a proper-sized fan will.
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Ventilating Your Bathroom
A bathroom must have adequate ventilation to prevent the buildup of moisture, mildew and odors. A window alone may be inadequate and certainly will not move the volume of air that a proper-sized fan will.
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Whole-House Humidifiers
Most people think of winter as a chilly, damp time of year. While that might be the case outdoors, just the opposite often is true indoors. While your home's heating system can keep you warm during the winter, it can cause your house to become too dry.
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