Indoor Air Quality Articles

Stand outdoors on one of those days when the weather feels perfect, take a few deep breaths, and enjoy the fresh air.

The reality is airborne contaminants, such as dust, dirt, and pet dander, can negatively impact the indoor air quality (IAQ) of your Michigan home. At Kapala Heating & Air Conditioning, we want you to breathe in fresh air, which is why we offer maintenance to keep your HVAC in top shape.

At Kapala Heating & Air Conditioning, we always look for ways to improve the comfort, health, and safety of homes and businesses in Lapeer and surrounding areas.

Indoor humidity is a drag. It makes relaxing extremely difficult—after all, you are sweating inside your home! It can affect your health, triggering asthma attacks and flaring allergies. It tends to put everyone in a sluggish mood—even the goldfish. Let’s zap that excess moisture right out of the room, and look at ways to manage your Michigan home’s relative indoor humidity.

Our professionals at Kapala Heating & Air Conditioning are here to inform you about home humidification, different systems available, and the benefits they can provide during the winter season.

Your air ducts circulate a supply of fresh and properly treated air. But since ductwork mostly hides behind walls, ceilings, and floors, many Mississippi homeowners don’t take the time to monitor its condition.

These days, you cannot help but think more about killing germs, staying healthy, and paying a little extra attention to personal hygiene.

Carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning is known as the silent killer for a reason—it can easily go undetected and cause illness and even death. It’s critical to learn how to prevent carbon monoxide leaks in your Lapeer home—as well as what the symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning are in case you are exposed.

If you don’t have a humidifier in your Lapeer home, then you may not be aware of just how useful these devices can truly be.

Our highly climate-controlled indoor environments can often be extremely comfortable in our modern world. Combine that with the fact so many of our daily needs are easily met without needing to go outside, and you find a society that spends nearly all its time indoors. As a result, poor indoor air quality has become a significant area of concern as a contributor to potential health problems.

In the winter, being snug as a bug in a rug in your home can be cozy, but it can also play havoc with your indoor air quality (IAQ) here in MI, creating some significant health problems. At Kapala Heating & Air Conditioning, we recommend taking precautions to avoid the common issues associated with winter indoor air quality.

Our professionals at Kapala Heating & Air Conditioning want to share with you some tips on controlling humidity and, furthermore, humidity control consequences in your Lapeer home.

Energy-efficient homes are more common than ever. Although they provide many benefits, including reducing overall energy usage and a smaller carbon footprint, they come with some disadvantages as well.

Everyone has it, and nobody wants it. Dust.

In many places, evidence of fall’s presence is obvious by way of beautiful fall colors. But many only experience fall with its subtlety through lower humidity levels. No matter which way you experience it, one thing is evident in them all––fall brings drier air. The cooler air simply can’t hold as much moisture as warm air, resulting in the dry air. While it can make for crisp mornings for walking, the lack of moisture in the air can also take its toll on you, your home, and your overall comfort.

Indoor humidity is a drag. It makes relaxing extremely difficult—after all, you are sweating inside your home! It can affect your health, triggering asthma attacks and flaring allergies. It tends to put everyone in a sluggish mood—even the goldfish. Let’s zap that excess moisture right out of the room, and look at ways to manage your Michigan home’s relative indoor humidity.

Busy careers, bustling families, engrossing hobbies, and overwhelming responsibilities keep most people busy day in and day out. It’s understandable why worrying about the air filter in your heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system is probably way down at the bottom of the priority list. However, our team at Kapala Heating & Air Conditioning wants to…

The spread of coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) has all of us greatly concerned in Michigan. At Kapala Heating & Air Conditioning, our top priority is the health and safety of you and your loved ones. We take great pride in selling indoor air quality products to greater Lapeer area homes and businesses that are energy-efficient, environmentally…

In modern society, average adults spend nearly all their time indoors at work or at home. In fact the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reports this amount of time reaches upwards of 90 percent for most people. That puts the importance of good indoor air quality at a whole new level. Our Kapala Heating & Air…

  Carbon monoxide is a poisonous, odorless, tasteless gas. It is formed by the incomplete combustion of carbon, or the incomplete burning of natural gas and other things that contain carbon. It can often be mixed with other gasses with odors. Carbon monoxide can result from the burning of any of these, gasoline, kerosene, oil,…

With fall now upon us in Lapeer, MI cooler temperatures are here to stay. This transition from one season to another most definitely affects your home’s indoor air quality (IAQ). And your IAQ directly affects your comfort in your home. In cooler weather, people tend to spend more time indoors at home, so it’s important to be sure your IAQ is protected, keeping both you and your home protected.

When you think of air pollution, what pops into your mind? A giant smoke stack? Cars spewing exhaust? A trash incinerator? Chances are you may not have considered your own home is full of air pollution.