Inside Your Home - Make Your Home Your Haven

This article is about some general tips that show you how to allergen-proof your house so that it becomes your haven, safe from allergies.

1. Stay cool and dry

If you are allergic to mold, probably the first thing you need to do about your home is to make it ventilated, cool and dry. By keeping your house cool and dry, you effectively decrease the amount of mold, dust mite and roaches in your home. Experts recommend you to use a good dehumidifier that has the ability to remove 13 gallons of water from the air in your home. These dehumidifier cost about $1,200. Obviously you don't need such a great dehumidifier in your home if you just want to make a particular damp spot in your home dry.

2. Keep the dehumidifier clean and dry

So now you have your own dehumidifier working all day round to remove moisture from the air in your home. The next thing you should do is to frequently clean the dehumidifier, that is by removing the water from the machine daily. If it is possible, you might want to drain the water through a pipe and dispose the water out of your home directly.

3. Use several small carpets to replace the big ones

For the carpets inside your home, do consider using several small carpets. Obviously tiled floors are the most ideal setting for people with allergies, because there is no way for these allergens and allergens-carriers to sneak in. But if you absolutely need to have a soft surface in your home, instead of using just one big size carpet, use several carpets of small pieces. This will make washing and cleaning the carpet an easier job.

When you wash your carpets, make sure they are dried within 24 hours. If it takes any longer than that, since mold likes wet surface, they would be likely to decide "to stay for the long term" inside your carpets. No good. This applies to anything that needs to be washed. Dry those thing fast, before those allergens grab hold.

4. Effective Carpet Cleaning Made Easy
Carpets trap stuffs, and in this case, carpets trap a lot of allergens. As time goes by, carpets will collect a lot of allergy triggers in them, so it is advisable for you to take several actions to make sure that the carpets are clean and safe to people with allergy. Obviously, if it is possible, do not use carpets at all. If you couldn't live without carpets, there are things you can and need to do to make sure the carpets are clean.

This is powerful and effective. Combine regular vacuuming/carpet cleaning with home dehumidifying, the allergy levels in your home will decline rapidly, probably to a point where no allergens are able to trigger any allergy symptoms.

To clean the carpets, wash them at least once a month with hot water at a temperature of at least 55 degree Celsius. Dry them within 24 hours, and if it is possible make it a habit to vacuum the carpets once a week. Ideally, vacuum them twice a week.

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A vacuum cleaner with a HEPA filter is the best choice. Unlike conventional vacuum cleaner, a HEPA vacuum cleaner is able to trap allergens. Conventional vacuum cleaner will suck in allergens as fast as it blows out the allergens through the vents in its back.
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5. No Smoking Inside Your Home

Secondhand smoke is a significant asthma trigger. It also irritates the lungs and the airways. Each puff of smoke contains several hundreds to thousands of chemicals. Smoking indoor with children inside your home, may even cause them to get childhood asthma. So if you have smokers at home, ask them to quit smoking if possible, it's good for everyone. If not, you have to ask he/she to smoke elsewhere.

6. Ventilate Your House With Fresh Air

If humidity is not a problem in your area, you might want to open up the windows more frequently to let the fresh air come in. By doing this, you are able to blow allergens and pollutants out of your home, as well as bringing in fresh air for the family. Yes pollens might be able to come in, and if you are affected by pollens, you can get a pollen screen filter.

7. Discard unwanted stuffs in your home

We tend to stock stuffs for future use inside our homes. Most of the time those stuffs are not needed, especially those with organic chemicals which irritate the lungs and airways. Make sure you store paints, mineral spirits, and stuffs with chemicals appropriately. Discard any unneeded old chemical items.

By performing some, better if all, of the seven steps, you will be able to at least cut down the amount of allergens inside your home, and directly you can feel the allergy levels in your home have been lowered. Give it some time like 1-2 months and see the difference for yourself.