Improve Your Indoor Air Quality with Warm Your Floor

The Asthma Society of Canada reports that 8.4% of Canadians are affected by asthma, and the numbers are just as bad for the US. According to the same source, 12% of children suffer from asthma and rates of the ailment have risen 60% since the 1980s. Although researchers are still trying to determine the exact cause of asthma, they already know that pollution and airborne allergens are at least a contributing factor to asthma attacks and worsen the ailment. Warm Your Floor is worried about these rates, knowing that asthma causes much misery and can even endanger lives.

New research by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is alarming in this regard. According to the EPA, even in the dirtiest cities, indoor air is generally more polluted than the air outside. This is especially bad because research has suggested that most of us spend 90% of our day inside. This means that the air that you breathe most of the time may actually be contributing to a number of respiratory ailments, including asthma.

There are many things that everyone can do to help improve indoor air quality and reduce the odds of an asthma attack. One organization that is hoping to raise awareness about asthma, NoAttacks, points out that the most common triggers for asthma attacks and the most common contributors to some other respiratory ailments are cats and dogs fur, nitrogen oxide, dust, mold, secondhand smoke, and chemical irritants. According to the organization, there are three ways to help increase the quality of your indoor air: purify the air, improve ventilation, or remove the source of the airborne pollutants.

Ventilation is often not really helped by traditional heating systems. If you have baseboard heaters, your baseboard heaters can be creating a toxic brew when they are heated. The dust and other allergens that rest on your heater become overheated and burn when the unit is turned on, releasing allergens into the air. Forced air heating systems can be even worse, blowing germs, dust, mold, and other irritants around your home. One solution to this common problem is to consider Warm Your Floor heated floors. In floor heating does not overheat and therefore does not burn any allergens already in your home. Plus, it does not blow around allergens the way that forced air systems can. The renovations necessary to install in floor heating are also very quick and do not require the use of toxic chemicals that can irritate the sinus passages of asthma sufferers in your home.

If you want to improve air quality in your home, underfloor heating is an excellent option. Not only will it save you money on heating bills, but it can help prevent the spread of allergens all over your home -- allergens which can threaten the welfare and health of your family.