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Are New Carpet Fumes Harmful?

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You’ve put it off for way too long, and now is finally the time that you need to replace that horrible flooring in your home. Whether it is worn out, has unpleasant odors trapped in the material, or even if you are looking to change the aesthetic of your home, new flooring will be your go -to option. The decision, however, will be a difficult one due to the numerous types of flooring available, but when it comes down to selecting a flooring there is something else you will want to consider ahead of the actual look of the flooring in your home – the hazards that the flooring contains and releases into your personal indoor environment. The installation of new carpeting inside your home will leave the room with a new sleek look, as well as a strong putrid odor that is produced into the air from this newly added flooring. Flooring in general is a challenging item to select for inside your home, with numerous different types, styles, and material that are used that can all bring with ...

Tips to Reduce Mold Spore Allergies Indoors

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Mold, a fungus that rapidly grows throughout an environment can be a real pain to deal with when it comes to your heightened allergies that flare at the slightest exposure to any type of mold allergen in the air. In a home that is growing mold, it may become unbearable for a person with allergies to be exposed to – as mold can produce very small, pesky allergens that will enter into the body and elicit a potentially severe bout of allergy-symptoms followed by an array of other possible health effects. Mold spores are tiny, microscopic spores that are produced from mold in an effort to reproduce and grow on other surfaces within the environment. These tiny mold spores are very offending pollutants that travel in the air and can contribute to allergy-symptoms when exposure and/or inhalation takes place in the human body. A mold allergy is commonly associated with these produced spores that float in the air and are therefore the main driving force behind a mold allergy. In this art...

Is Vinyl Flooring Toxic in a Home?

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Building a new home or renovating the home you currently reside in will leave you with many decisions, some of which will be critical to both the air quality in this environment and the health of those that are exposed to this tainted air on a daily basis. Building materials are among one of the most hazardous items to an indoor environment – as they are packed full of potentially toxic materials that will overtime release dangerous chemicals into the air of this enclosed area. From new paint, new furniture, wall additions inside the home, and even the removal and replacing of new flooring can all be potential sources of the entrance of hazardous chemicals into the indoor air of your home. New flooring has been found to contain a large quantity of different chemicals within its composition that when installed into an indoor environment like a home it will off gas and release these chemicals into the air of this enclosed area – leading to a dangerous level of pollution in the air that ...