Enrich Your Spring Cleaning with Enhanced IAQ Resources 

After a long, cold winter, your home needs to fling open the doors and windows and breathe deeply. Consider and implement proven ways to clear out the residues and odors from the last few months, preparing your residence for spring and summer air quality challenges. Deeply cleaning your house, including your HVAC system and ductwork, establishes an optimal baseline for general tidiness, freshness, and healthy indoor air quality (IAQ).

Old-Fashioned Spring Cleaning that Improves IAQ

Make sure that shaking out the dust and going after the grime during spring cleaning improves rather than worsens the IAQ of your home. Here are a few common sense ideas to lean into when giving your home a good cleanup:

  • Select Tools and Products Wisely
  • Choose the least toxic alternatives among cleaning products, avoiding those warning of volatile organic compounds (VOC). You may even want to consider DIY cleaners made from safe pantry items using trusted recipes that do not create dangerous fumes.
  • Invest in a high-quality HEPA-filtered vacuum and use it to collect the dust and dirt stirred up during the cleanup.
  • Address the dust and residues on freestanding or window AC units by changing, vacuuming, or washing filters and fins and ensuring that coils, drain lines, and drain pans are clean and unclogged.
  • Inspect and clean the cooling coils and drains on appliances like refrigerators, ice makers, and freezers. During warmer weather, they have some heavy lifting to do. 
  • Clean hoods and exhaust fans in the kitchen. Holiday meals and cozy family suppers throughout the fall and winter can create a buildup of protein-based residues that attract dust and carry a stench from the oils and food bits deposited on surfaces, even after delicious meals.
  • Ventilation
  • If pollens and other allergens are at low levels outside, ventilate by opening windows and doors during active cleaning.
  • High-quality air purifiers with newly installed, clean filters can help capture irritants and odor-bearing particles if you need to shut the house down to prevent outdoor irritants from entering. 

HVAC and Air Duct Inspection and Cleaning

  • At a bare minimum, change the filters in your HVAC system.
  • Arrange a professional inspection of your heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system. Highly trained and well-equipped technicians from your local AdvantaClean can inspect your ductwork (usually with remote cameras—borescopes) to determine whether air duct cleaning is warranted. 

Run the HVAC System After Spring Cleaning

Once surfaces are scrubbed, floors vacuumed, dust in various traps liberated, and your HVAC system is cleaned and tuned up, allow it to run to collect remaining airborne debris in your newly installed and fresh filters. 

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Start spring refreshed with simple and effective tips recommended by our experts. You can count on AdvantaClean to improve your IAQ.

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