How to Keep Air Clean at Home

Airborne grease, dust and soil not only settle on surfaces in your home, resulting in a variety of sticky coatings, but also contribute to air impurity. By controlling or eliminating dust and chemicals in your household, you can keep the air in your home clean.

Difficulty:

Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need

• Walk-off Mats
• Cleaning Cloths
• Weather Stripping
• Screen Guards
• Degreasers
• Bath Exhaust Fans

1. Open windows whenever possible, especially when cooking or cleaning.

2. Use covers on cooking pans; when frying, use a screen guard.

3. Use steam- or oily-vapor-producing appliances under the hood of the stove with the ventilating fan turned on. (Use the fan to control cooking odors and smoke as well.)

4. Clean high, flat surfaces several times a year.

5. Turn on the bathroom exhaust fan to keep steam from collecting dirt and diffusing it throughout the house.

6. Change furnace filters monthly during winter months.

7. Maintain your vacuum cleaner so that dust is not being blown back into the air as you vacuum.

8. Prevent dust and dirt from entering the house with doormats and weather stripping.

9. Dust regularly.

10. Don't smoke.

Tips & Warnings

• Consider purchasing an electronic air cleaner.

• To remove soil coatings, use a cleaner with a pH of 12 or 13.

• In the kitchen, scrape off as much soil as you can, spray degreaser onto area, and clean off with a cloth.

• Consider buying walk-off mats at a janitorial supply store to place inside and outside entrances - dirt and dust get 'walked off' before entering the home.