Y' know, John, I'm wondering about the air in your house. Some years ago I began to feel terrible - specifically I felt like I'd just smoked a pack of cigarettes. My lungs ached. Plus I felt physically and mentally exhausted. I believe it was something I saw on-line that caused me to call in HVAC technicians, who looked at the central air recirculator here and blanched. “You have a severe mold problem,” they said, and fumigated the house. Twice.
Here, do this: Take your most powerful flashlight, torch, whatever, that throws a strong beam. In a fully dark room, shine it at 90° to you so you only see the beam itself.
If that beam holds what looks like a miniature blizzard, you're pulling that straight into your lungs with every breath. Hour after hour, day after day.
I saw that blizzard. I now have standard commercial air purifiers running upstairs and down. The difference in air quality is noticeable and remarkable.
Yah, well, you're welcome. I was just thinking that if your house was shut up tight for months against that gawdawful WINTER the air might be downright toxic with contaminants by now - mold, dust mites, &c. If you did the flashlight-beam test and the beam showed clear air, you're doing something right!
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Y' know, John, I'm wondering about the air in your house. Some years ago I began to feel terrible - specifically I felt like I'd just smoked a pack of cigarettes. My lungs ached. Plus I felt physically and mentally exhausted. I believe it was something I saw on-line that caused me to call in HVAC technicians, who looked at the central air recirculator here and blanched. “You have a severe mold problem,” they said, and fumigated the house. Twice.
Here, do this: Take your most powerful flashlight, torch, whatever, that throws a strong beam. In a fully dark room, shine it at 90° to you so you only see the beam itself.
If that beam holds what looks like a miniature blizzard, you're pulling that straight into your lungs with every breath. Hour after hour, day after day.
I saw that blizzard. I now have standard commercial air purifiers running upstairs and down. The difference in air quality is noticeable and remarkable.
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Thanks for the advice, and the thought, though. :)
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Yah, well, you're welcome. I was just thinking that if your house was shut up tight for months against that gawdawful WINTER the air might be downright toxic with contaminants by now - mold, dust mites, &c. If you did the flashlight-beam test and the beam showed clear air, you're doing something right!
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