Numerous atmospheric studies have shown that the air inside your home is routinely dirtier than the air outside. The smaller overall space inside your house means that you will have a higher concentration of particulates in the air than you would experience outdoors. Here are some common signs that you are experiencing poor indoor air quality in your home.

You Get Sick

Pathogens live in the air. If there are too many inside your home, and no one who lives there has the right kind of resistances against such pathogens, then you can become ill. If you get sick more than the average person, then it’s entirely likely that you have to clean up your indoor air.

You Have More Dust Than Usual

There’s no way to remove all the dust from the air in an average home. You’ll always eventually find a thin layer of it on flat surfaces. Considering that your skin sheds dust every day, that’s not too surprising. What will be surprising is if you have more than just that thin layer or more frequent buildups.

You Smell Weird Things Coming Out of Your Vents

When your system kicks on, you may notice an odor that smells like dirty socks. Maybe something smells like rotten food. Any time that you smell something untoward from the vents, it means that there’s something in the air that shouldn’t be. With the smell of sweaty socks, it’s usually biological growth. A rotten smell could indicate that something crawled into your HVAC system and died. In any event, you have to take care of it right away.

You See Something Growing on Your Floors or Walls

In a case where you have biological growth in the air, even if you cannot smell them, you will sometimes see them begin to grow or accumulate on the flat surfaces in your home. Don’t try to clean them up yourself because you can cause dust clouds of the growth to disperse within your home. This is a serious situation that requires an expert to mitigate.

You Notice That Your HVAC’s Air Filter Is Clogged

Clogged air filters can’t remove particles from the air as well as clean filters. A clogged air filter will also cause other problems with your HVAC system, such as a freezing coil or poor airflow. Fortunately, this one is much easier to correct than the others. All you have to do is change the filter.

If you notice any of these signs in your home, you must reach out for help. Don’t allow poor air quality to impact the health of you and your family. Give Hardy Heating and Air Conditioning a call to mitigate air quality issues in your Wasilla, AK home.