Before starting your kitchen remodel or conversion project you should understand and address the various air quality factors that can arise during construction.
Healthy Home
Indoor Air Pollution: Formaldehyde
Formaldehyde is an important chemical used widely by industry to manufacture building materials and numerous household products. It is also a by-product of combustion and certain other natural processes. Thus, it may be present in substantial concentrations both indoors and outdoors.
Indoor Air Quality: Lead
Lead can cause serious damage to the brain kidneys, nervous system, and red blood cells. Lead exposure in children can result in delays in physical development, lower IQ levels, shorten attention spans, and increase behavioral problems.
Indoor Air Pollution: Organic Gases
Organic chemicals (volatile organic compounds or VOCs) are widely used as ingredients in household products. Paints, varnishes and wax all contain organic solvents, as do many cleaning, disinfecting, cosmetic, degreasing and hobby products. All of these products can release organic compounds while you are using them, and, to some degree, when they are stored.
Indoor Air Quality: Remodeling Practices
Regardless of what part of the house your remodeling project takes place in, there are good work practices that you can use to help minimize or prevent indoor air and other indoor environmental problems.
Indoor Air Pollution: Pesticides
According to a recent survey, 75 percent of U.S. households used at least one pesticide product indoors during the past year. Products used most often are insecticides and disinfectants. Another study suggests that 80 percent of most people’s exposure to pesticides occurs indoors and that measurable levels of up to a dozen pesticides have been found in the air inside homes.
Indoor Air Quality: Additions
Before starting your addition remodel or conversion project you should understand and address the various air quality factors that can arise during construction.
A Guide to Indoor Air Quality
Pollutants inside your home are especially dangerous as they are with you through the day and night. Understanding the causes and effects is an important step in mitigating the damage they may cause.
Indoor Air Quality: Attic Remodels
Before starting your attic remodel or conversion project you should understand and address the various air quality factors that can arise during construction.
Indoor Air Quality: Basement Remodels
Before starting your basement remodel or conversion project you should understand and address the various air quality factors that can arise during construction.