By Jeff May — from his August 2022 May’s Ways column in Healthy Indoors Magazine The sources of indoor air quality problems can be within the components of the building including mechanical systems, crawlspaces, and basements. Many IAQ problems, however, arise from what building occupants bring into a building envelope (what I call Trojan Horses).
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The Healthy Indoors LIVE Show returns for the 2022 season on Thursday June 16th with a timely broadcast about getting ready for another bout with extreme weather events. Join us LIVE from 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT when we welcome ICP‘s Cole Stanton and Josh Trowman to discuss how to be better prepared to
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We were LIVE, in-person from the Expo floor in Nashville, TN on May 23-25, 2022 for a dozen great interviews with industry leaders. You can see all the recordings here: https://global.healthyindoors.com/c/healthy-indoors-live-show/aihce-2022
You can read the May 2022 digital USA-Edition now at: https://hi.healthyindoors.com/i/1469144-hi-may-2022-usa-edition
By Carl Grimes — This is a true story. The names are not used to protect both the guilty and the innocent. I remember the details well because the events occurred over a 36-hour period just a day before I started writing this article. A couple I had been occasionally working with remotely texted me
By Allison Bailes III, Ph.D. — The DIY box fan air cleaner known as the Corsi-Rosenthal Box (or the Comparetto Cube, in a slight variation) has really taken off in the fight against COVID. I wrote about it here in September 2020, with instructions on how to make one yourself after I made my first
By Jeffrey C. May– I’ve worked with many clients who spent thousands of dollars unnecessarily. In one situation, a woman was told that her basement was full of mold growth and that she should immediately move out of her house. She was given an estimate of about $3,000 to “de-mold” her basement. She moved into
Healthy Indoors LIVE Show on July 29, 2021 with guest, Carl Grimes. The terrain of IAQ has not improved. If anything, it’s even more confusing and riskier for the clients. The necessity of guardrails is greater than ever. The need for parachutes is beginning. We discussed IAQ/IEQ from both the commercial/residential client’s perspective, as well
Our second installment of our new #ISIAQ – #IEQ_GA monthly show will feature Dr. David Krause for a discussion about how the quality of water may be adversely affecting our indoor environments. Watch the live stream from 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT (UTC -4) on Monday July 26, 2021 or video/podcast after at: https://global.healthyindoors.com/c/indoor-environments/indoor-environments-episode-2
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Given there is still a major focus on disinfection in the current environment, how and where do probiotic cleaners fit in?How is sanitizing and disinfection a 2-step process, and where can probiotic cleaners help disinfectants work better? That’s the topic on this week’s Healthy Indoors LIVE Show with our guest, Graeme Marsh. Watch the live
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