Category archives: Home & Maintenance

Best Way to Add Rhythm to Your Life with Feng Shui

To be well organized we need a certain structure and rhythm to our lives. This can enable us to achieve more with less effort. Rather like dancing where the rhythm of the music can keep us active for long periods of time without tiring, having a rhythm to your life… Continue Reading…

Best Way to Add Excitement to Your Home with Feng Shui

Lights bring more energy into a space and, therefore, generate a livelier, yang atmosphere. Lights also add one of the components of the sun’s energy and so are associated with fire chi energy.

Representing the summer and midday energy, fire chi energy is used to help you become noticed, to… Continue Reading…

Best Way to Create Your Own Home Spa in Your Bathroom

Create your own home spa in the privacy of your bathroom and wake yourself up to the wonders of hydrotherapy. Water is the very essence of life – without it we cannot survive more than two or three days. These sim­ple techniques refresh tired eyes, and leave you totally energized… Continue Reading…

Best Way to Deal with Cockroaches in Your Home

The source of cockroach allergen is less well defined than for the house-dust mite, but it is probable that digestive enzymes present in their fecal particles play an important role.

Although cockroach fecal particles are substantially larger and heavier than those of the house-dust mite, they could still become airborne,… Continue Reading…

Best Way to Improve Interior Air Quality with Ventilation

Good ventilation involves removing stale, polluted air from a house and replacing it with less-polluted air from outside. One of the main functions of ventilation is removing excess humidity (water vapour in the air), with the average family producing a surprisingly large amount. Other functions of ventilation include removing interior… Continue Reading…

Best Way to Improve Air-Quality with Air Filtering Units and Ionizers

Air-filtering units and ionizers are sometimes promoted as being helpful to people with allergies. While research shows that air-filtering units fitted with HEPA filters may help asthma symptoms if they are used with anti-mite bedding covers, there is no evidence that ionizers reduce allergic symptoms. Dehumidifiers and air-conditioning units may… Continue Reading…

Best Way to Improve Indoor Air-Quality with Hard-Surface Flooring

Although a few people argue that removing carpets is not wise, since they trap large quantities of dust that would, otherwise, be circulating freely in the air experts in general advise hard-surface flooring as a healthier alternative. A simple cleaning routine will ensure dust does not accumulate. If you decide… Continue Reading…

Best Way to Improve Indoor Air Quality

The interior environment is the main place where people are exposed to the allergens that result in such common allergic conditions as asthma, rhinitis, and eczema. Many of these allergens, including animal dander and mould spores, are found in the air while others, such as mite droppings, are in carpets… Continue Reading…

Best Way to Improve Your Home Ventilation

Following the advice in Step 1 should be satisfactory for most homes, but see Step 2 if you have an allergy sufferer in your home. Step 3 provides an excellent level of ventilation, but the cost involved needs to be considered critically against any extra health benefits.

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    Best Way to Install an MVHR System

    Siting the heat-recovery unit

    • Choose a position, commonly in the attic (loft), near the middle of the house,
    • This usually provides the shortest route (and least expense) for ducting.
    • Make sure that the chosen location allows access for servicing the heat-recovery unit. Fans, filters, and the heat-exchanger

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