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Healthy Indoors Jan 2020 Digital Edition
The latest issue of Healthy Indoors Magazine is available now! Read it here
Indoor Air Quality (IAQ)
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MOISTURE, MOISTURE EVERYWHERE
by Jeffrey C. May — Fungi require moisture. I want to start with a brief review of two types of fungi, because it’s important for building professionals to know the difference. Macrofungi produce fruiting bodies that we call mushrooms or toadstools. These organisms have hyphae that can fan out a few feet to many yards
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The TREE House, Part 2:
Lessons learned from a Deep Energy Retrofit — By Nate Adams — Want to know something crazy about the deep energy retrofit of this building? It uses 35-45% more energy than one of our much less deep projects. That’s one of the things we learned from the Hiram College TREE House project. Last time we
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The Toxic Body Burden
By Alice Delia — Ever wonder what happens to all the things we take into our bodies every day? A lot of the food we eat is metabolized into useful substances, notably proteins, fats and cholesterol. And oxygen from the air we breathe is absorbed into the blood through the lungs while carbon dioxide moves
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Controlling the Humidity in Your Home in Winter
by Allison Bailes — I’m going to go out on a limb and make what you may think is an outrageous statement: Water is the most interesting substance in the world. Some of you may immediately respond, “Oh, yeah! What about beer?” (Or wine or Sidecars, Negronis, or Sazeracs or whatever your drink of choice
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Tips for Keeping a “Green House” Healthy
By Jeff May — Healthy Indoors Magazine November 2019 — Regrettably, summer will soon come to an end. In New England where I live, the leaves will turn colors and nights will be cooler. Soon we’ll be shutting up our houses and turning on the heat. With a reduction of fresh air in the house
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A Mother’s Story: Mercury in School Gym Flooring Makes Son Sick
by Amy Ziff — Trisha Dello Iacono knew there was something at New Jersey’s Wenonah Elementary that was making her 9-year-old son sick. She had a thick file for every time he’d gone to the nurse with migraines, or vomiting from nausea. It escalated early this year. He began developing a tic. She thought he
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Home Performance Channel – Healthy Indoors Minute
Corbett Lunsford, of the Building Performance Workshop, and the co-host of the PBS TV series, Home Diagnosis with Grace Lunsford, brings you the next installment of the “Home Performance Channel – Healthy Indoors Minute.” Home Diagnosis co-host Corbett Lunsford found out that his HVAC maintenance schedule was not adequate. In the highest performance tiny house
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‘Chemical Accident’ At Buffalo Wild Wings Leaves Worker Dead, 10 Hospitalized
“One employee described the chemical as smelling like “ammonia and chlorine.” U.S. NEWS 11/08/2019 05:31 am ET — By Ed Mazza A worker at a Buffalo Wild Wings in Burlington, Massachusetts died and 10 others were sickened after a chemical accident Thursday night. Fire officials said the incident may have been caused by sodium hypochlorite,
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DIRTY DUCKS? An Air DUCT Cleaning & HVAC Hygiene Primer
By Bob Krell, CIEC, CMRS, LEED-AP, NYS Mold Assessor — This article is about DUCT cleaning, not duck cleaning! OK, I just couldn’t resist the graphic puns, but after over 27 years of being involved in the HVAC hygiene industry, I think it’s fitting. So, just what IS duct cleaning, and why should you be