Kilowatt Heating, Air Conditioning and Electrical Blog: Posts Tagged ‘Air Purification’

We Can Help With Spring Allergy Season!

Monday, March 22nd, 2021
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Spring brings along warmer weather, but it brings something else along as well: a flare-up of allergy and asthma symptoms. As plants bloom, more pollen enters the air and raises the pollen count, causing hay fever in many adults and children and worsening asthma problems. This can irritate people with minor allergies and make life utterly miserable for people with severe respiratory conditions.

What can you do about it? There are medical solutions, of course, and you can ask your physician about the best steps to take for you and your family to combat the problems of allergy season. But you can make improvements to your home’s indoor air quality so that pollen and other allergens remain mostly outdoors. We have the IAQ services that can help make your spring filled with more joy and fewer sneezes and sniffles.

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Unhealthy Air Quality Concerns in Southern California

Monday, December 3rd, 2018

We’ve written about indoor air quality for homes before, since making IAQ (indoor air quality) improvements is part of what we do. But it’s urgent to talk with customers and potential customers in Southern California because of the recent destructive fires that blazed through the region during November. By the time the fires ended, more than 20 cities in California had unhealthy air. The Woolsey fire in Malibu was the most destructive for us in Southern California, and it released into the air many harmful particles that can lead to respiratory issues and worsening of previous medical conditions.

Even though the fires are vanquished and we’ve had rain, air quality doesn’t automatically switch back to “healthy.” The short-term concerns about being outside may be gone, but your home may be suffering from poor air quality for the near future. Sadly when homes burn the smoke is much more toxic than the smoke from a wood campfire. But you can do something about the air quality inside your home!

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