Keeping Your Indoor Air Quality Clean

As wildfires rage across the Western U.S. many home office workers are experiencing poor air quality outside and inside of their homes.

Bad air quality inside the home is largely solvable.

For many people this leads to a few basic and urgent questions:

  1. How can I keep the air inside my home clean?
  2. What does good or bad air quality actually mean and how is it measured?
  3. Is my home office air quality safe?

I want to provide answers to these questions. 

As a result of Covid working days and online hours seem longer now that fewer people are commuting.

With these long hours comes meeting after meeting in my home office. In the following paragraphs I will explain how changes in the climate have altered our work spaces and what we can do to solve these problems. Before the wildfires accelerated I rarely thought about the air quality outside of my home.

Now I spend a lot of time thinking about the air quality inside my home to ensure that I am safe.

How can I keep the air inside my home clean?

In order to keep the air inside of your home clean, you need to measure it. You can’t improve what you can’t measure.

The first thing you need is an indoor air quality (IAQ) monitor. 

Fortunately these are very inexpensive and often come built-in to air purifiers. If you are reading this article and are not using an air purifier you can instantly make your home and work space cleaner and healthier by buying one.

Here are the best and most affordable air purifiers in the world. Get one.

I run my air purifier 24/7 and rotate it across different rooms during different times of the day. You should too.

What does good or bad air quality actually mean and how is it measured?

First, you want to make sure that your air purifier has a high efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filter (see above). 

For air purifiers to be labeled HEPA, they must have been tested and individually certified by the U.S. Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology or the International Organization for Standardization.

I only advised HEPA approved products.

The Clean Air Delivery Rate basically measures how fast an air purifier can produce perfectly clean air. The higher the rate, the faster it will remove unwanted particles and toxins. 

For example, if a purifier can clean 100 cubic feet of air per minute while removing 90 percent of the air’s particles, it would get a 90 CADR.

Is my home office air quality safe?

All air – inside or outside has a quality index that measures the concentration of pollution between 0 and 500. Ordinarily your home office should have less than 10. If you are in a fire zone, your inside score might be as high as 100. 

If you have asthma, for example, this can cause the extreme irritation of your lungs. An air purifier can help you improve the quality of your breathable air considerably.

Summary: Get Clean Air Today

If you want a clean home office you need to ensure that the air you are breathing is clean. The only way to do this is to measure, clean, and check your air. An air purifier can do just that and is a critical tool that can assist you. If you want to start by measuring first, you can get an Air Quality Monitor.

If you want to measure and clean your air at the same time, and believe that you should stop at nothing to keep your lungs healthy, the Medify MA-40W2 V2.0 Medical Grade Filtration is the highest grade air purifier available on the market today.

Kevin
Kevin

Kevin is a WFH veteran. He has spent the better half of the past decade traveling the world while working remotely. Kevin has recently settled down and stopped traveling frequently, but continues to work from home and has created a spectacular home office. He loves reviewing new products for his office and sharing his insights so that people can improve their home office experience.

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