Well, if you think about it logically, poor indoor air quality can actually affect your health tremendously. Let’s just take an average persons time during an average day. First, you sleep in your home for 8 hours. You’ll spend another 1 hour getting ready for work and then out the door. You’ll get home from work around 6 and it’ll be another 3 hours before it’s bedtime. So for a typical work week you’re spending about 12 hours a day in the home. The other 12 hours would be spent at work or traveling to work or running errands or whatever you do.  If you add in an additional 6 hours for each weekend day that you’ll spend at home (estimating that you’ll spend half the time in the home that you are typically away during the week), you’d come up with 18 hours for those 2 days. That leaves us with this:
(5×12) = 60
(2×18)= 36
(60 + 36) = 96 hours a week in your home

If you take 96/7 it’s approximately 13.7 hours a day that you are spending each and every day in conditions where poor indoor air quality could affect your health in your own home.

Now those are my figures as to how I see it but there has been other research done by the EPA that shows an average person spends about 90% of their total time indoors every single day regardless if it’s at home, office, church, building, or the like. And that same research has concluded that indoor air can be much more polluted than outdoor air. Now folks, this couldn’t be a more serious issue surrounding your health risks due to poor indoor air quality.

Having inadequate air filters installed to filter the air you breathe can definitely lead to poor indoor air quality. This quality of air can contribute to many short and long-term health problems including but not limited too: respiratory tract infections, asthma, allergies, congestion, headaches, both eye and skin irritations, nausea, dizziness, fatigue, sneezing and coughing. Now who would let that happen to themselves all for saving a couple of dollars this month?

One of the best things you can do not only for your air conditioning system but also for your health is to maintain clean and adequate quality HVAC air filters. Not only will the air you breathe be cleaner, but as a side effect of having and maintaining a quality home air filter you’ll significantly decrease the amount of dust particles and allergens in your home to help with any allergy problems you may have.

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