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When you lay your head down at night to go to sleep, you may have started to experience symptoms that will similarly be related to that of allergies. If you are an individual that suffers from allergies, then the symptoms that are associated with this condition can heighten sporadically as the conditions in the environment such as certain allergens, seasons, or even supposedly times of day can impact the severity of these allergy symptoms. Seasonal allergies are the time of the year where those individuals with allergies may deal with the worst bout of allergy symptoms, however, recently there have become a lot of debate surrounding nighttime allergies and if this time of day will elicit more severe allergy symptoms for those allergy sufferers. Nighttime allergies have become another identifiable allergy term similar to that of seasonal allergies, but there is less understanding around this allergy term. Will everybody experience nighttime allergies, what are the symptoms that

Did you know that the United States Federal Housing Authority recommends that every home has a minimum of at least 1 square foot of attic ventilation for every 300 square feet of attic floor space? It is no surprise that many homeowners and builders believe that it is essential that attics should be properly ventilated inside of a home or other indoor environment. Attic ventilation works to protect the indoor structure of buildings in many ways such as maintaining a cold roof temperature to control ice dams, to vent moisture that moves from the conditioned space to the attic, to vent and expel solar heated hot air from the attic to lessen building cooling, etc. All of these components are important to maintaining a safe and effective infrastructure, and thus the increasing need for proper and safe attic ventilation. When it comes to the various types of attic insulation used throughout building structures, one of the most popular to use is spray foam insulation. Spray foam has

The United States is in its first week of widespread school and public environment closures that has left many Americans and their families stuck inside the confined space of their home for the next projected couple weeks. The rapid spreading of the pandemic virus called the Coronavirus COVID-19 has led to these drastic decisions from the national government to have Americans conduct a 14-day voluntary quarantine to try to slow the spread of this fast spreading virus. The families that are under lock down in their home’s participating in this quarantine have started to become concerned about not only the health of their family members but also the indoor air quality in this space. Recently, indoor air quality has been at the forefront of many people’s mind as national agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have published findings about the harsh reality of indoor air pollution inside of homes and other indoor spaces, such as that indoor air pollution levels ar

Have you started to notice that the air inside your car has taken on a weird odor or has even started to activate allergic symptoms in your body? Every car will contain an air filter that will be responsible for filtering out the air in the small confined space of the vehicle. However, are these air filters maintained and switched out, and are you using the best cabin air filter for your car? There are a variety of different types of cabin air filters, depending on the type of car you drive and the capability of the cabin filter to filter out the air inside this car’s air space. Often times we will not have a hand in picking out the cabin air filter we use in our car’s as they will be placed in there by mechanics that do your regular maintenance oil change, but if you notice that your car’s indoor air quality is compromised, it may be time to look into alternative cabin air filters such as activated charcoal filters for your car. When it comes to the impact that your car’s cabi

The presence of mold inside of your home can lead to more problems than you may think, especially when it comes to the formation of certain species of mold within the indoor space. Mold is a rapidly growing fungus that will spread aggressively throughout a home, or wherever the mold begins its dramatic formation and that will allow for airborne pollutants to be produced and spread in the air. All mold species will reproduce through the releasing of mold spores in the air that will travel throughout the air and attach to surfaces to begin its new surface growth. However, with some mold species such as the ominous black mold and other potentially toxic mold species, other substances will also be produced and released into the air in addition to the mold spores that mold already emits into the air – these toxic substances are what are known as mycotoxins. If you have ever dealt with the formation and spreading of a toxic mold species in your home such as stachybotrys chartarum (ak