When you’re at home, you expect to feel safe and comfortable—not stuffy and annoyed. Unfortunately, dirty indoor air can leave you feeling under the weather. As the colder months approach and you look forward to making more memories inside, it’s crucial to ensure your air quality is up to par. Here, the expert heating contractors at RC Rogers Company of Cambridge, OH, offer the following tips to help you breathe easier at home.

A Heating Contractor’s Top Indoor Air Quality Tips

1. Try a Whole-Home Humidifier

While you might associate humidity with mold growth, and therefore, poor air quality, you can benefit from breathing in the right amount of moisture. During the colder months, the air is especially dry, leading to sore throats, chapped lips, and increased asthma, allergy, and sinus congestion symptoms. By using a humidifier—a machine that emits water vapor—you can maintain the perfect amount of humidity and breathe easier: around 30% to 50%.

2. Purchase Indoor Plants

You may have learned that plants intake carbon dioxide and emit oxygen, which makes a deep breath in a forest so fulfilling. However, did you know that indoor plants can help you breathe easier in your living space? Just like our skin, their leaves contain pores, except they use them to intake gases. In addition to CO₂, they also absorb gases that are harmful for humans to breathe (from formaldehyde to cigarette smoke) and churn out clean oxygen in return

3. Use an Air Purifier

Thanks to advancements in science and technology, you can even equip your home with machines that filter out airborne contaminants. These air purifiers contain HEPA filters, which trap 99.97% of tiny particles just waiting to be inhaled. As a result, you can sit back and relax while your air-cleaning contraption sucks in pet dander, smoke particles, and dust.

If you’re looking for top-of-the-line products to help your plants clean the indoor air, contact the heating contractors at RC Rogers Company. With their Luxaire® Whole-Home Fan Powered Humidifiers and Acclimate™ whole house air cleaners, you can breathe deeply and know your family is enjoying a safe and healthy winter. For more information about their inventory, visit the website, and call (740) 685-8677 to speak with a heating contractor.