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Ventilation
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- A comprehensive overview of the issues.
- From The Healthy House Answer Book: Answers to the 133 most commonly asked questions. Questions 88-98.
- How residential building envelopes can act as particle filters.
- Create a plan for ventilation whether building, remodeling or leaving things as they are.
- In the U.S. today we\'re far more likely to breathe some of the most debilitating compounds at home. How did things get this bad? A historical perspective.
- Ice damming — which can lead to mold, mildew, or rot — can sometimes occur with improperly vented roofs in the winter.
- LEED for Homes is a green home certification system for assuring homes are designed and built to be energy- and resource-efficient and healthy for occupants.
- Revealing facts about mold problems, how they start, and how to safely clean them up. This guidance was written for people living in the northwest USA, and isn't for hot and humid climates.
- Natural ventilation is becoming an increasingly attractive method for reducing energy costs while improving indoor air quality, according to green building advocates.
- When outfitting or decorating your home, there are sensitive choices you can make if you have asthma.
- Outgassing refers to the release of gases during the aging and degradation of a material. These volatile organic compounds (VOCs) can negatively affect our health.
- Water is vital to life, so it should be as healthy as possible. This article covers plumbing and how it impacts the health of occupants.
- Everyone is at risk of being poisoned by carbon monoxide exposure. Older adults with pre-existing conditions, such as chronic heart disease, anemia, or respiratory problems, are even more susceptible to the effects of this odorless, colorless gas.
- What can be done to make our homes and buildings more healthful?
- Builders tend to focus more on energy and environmental conservation in their selection of green features; and may inadvertently contribute to poor indoor air quality (IAQ).
- Test your knowledge of the second-leading cause of lung cancer.
- Exposure to radon gas increases your risk of developing lung cancer. Here\'s how to test your home for radon and what to do if you have high radon levels indoors.
- One of the greatest difficulties in estimating the toxicity of household products is the fact that most of the ingredients are not disclosed on product labels or other documents.
- Ingredients in common household cleaning products may be harmful to our health.
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