Many manufacturers of air purifiers proclaim that their machine will remove all impurities from your indoor air such as smoke, dust and pet dander and make the air “as clean as the driven snow”. This is absolutely not the “whole truth and nothing but the truth”. With a lot of effort, and the use of an air purifier, you can remove the majority of the dust in your home, but never 100% of it.

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Visible mold on your drywall, carpet, or basement walls is trouble. But mold in your HVAC (heating, ventilation, air conditioning) system is a real danger to you, anyone living in your home, and even your pets (Yes, some pets are allergic to mold; they can have the same reactions to mold exposure as humans). If you have mold in your HVAC system, when your furnace or AC blower comes on, the airflow can spread mold spores throughout your entire home. Mold spores will contaminate every room and every space. The longer the system operates this way, the worse your mold problem can become.

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Sometimes that smell of something new never seems to last long enough, like the interior of a new car or a fresh, just out of the oven, baking sheet full of chocolate chip cookies. But that is often not the case with many pieces of new furniture, especially when it comes to the smell of a new “bed-in-a-box” mattress that many consumers are purchasing today.

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The air conditioner has become an indispensable appliance in most households. While it circulates cool air during the summer months, it can also be a hotspot for toxic mold and cause significant water damage. The major reason for mold growth is that outdoor mold spores in the air are brought in by the air

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