Indoor Air Pollution - Air Quality at Home

[AaronG]

Hello

 

As part of my industrial design course, I am currently looking into indoor air pollution. I understand that air quality is a concern for many of us, so I aim to generate a solution that helps to provide cleaner air for our home environments.

A big part of designing new solutions is understanding the problem from the user perspective. Hence, it would be very helpful if you could answer a few questions about your experience with air quality at home. I look forward to gaining insight through your responses.
 

Questions:

1. Is indoor air quality something that you think about often, or that impacts you on your daily life (or that of your family members)?
2. Do you take any measures to try to protect yourself or family members from poor indoor air quality at home ?
3. Are you particularly concerned about any individual home pollutants?
4. Who do you think should be responsible for improving the quality of the air in your home (if anyone)?
5. Do you think more education about indoor air pollution is needed?
6. Would you benefit from a service that highlights low polluting home products ? How would you use this information?

Thank you,
Aaron

[eggsarascal]

2 hours ago, AaronG said:

Hello

 

As part of my industrial design course, I am currently looking into indoor air pollution. I understand that air quality is a concern for many of us, so I aim to generate a solution that helps to provide cleaner air for our home environments.

A big part of designing new solutions is understanding the problem from the user perspective. Hence, it would be very helpful if you could answer a few questions about your experience with air quality at home. I look forward to gaining insight through your responses.
 

Questions:

1. Is indoor air quality something that you think about often, or that impacts you on your daily life (or that of your family members)?
2. Do you take any measures to try to protect yourself or family members from poor indoor air quality at home ?
3. Are you particularly concerned about any individual home pollutants?
4. Who do you think should be responsible for improving the quality of the air in your home (if anyone)?
5. Do you think more education about indoor air pollution is needed?
6. Would you benefit from a service that highlights low polluting home products ? How would you use this information?

Thank you,
Aaron

1: No

2: No

3: No

4: The Government, they are responsible for everything...

5: possibly.

6: No, I live in the countryside, if I've got to worry about indoor pollution God save those who live in big cities.

[Lowestoft Firewood]

No to all, I would look at doing something useful tbh.

[Rob_the_Sparky]

1. Occasionally but not something that worries me greatly.  When the sun pours in and you see lots of stuff floating in the air.

2. Have thought about buying a Ionisers/filters but cost was not low and test performance seems to show effectiveness is pretty localised.

3. No but that could be a lack of knowledge

4. No one other than me is going to do anything

5. Maybe, but with no knowledge of what I don't know (!) it is hard to say whether there is more I need to learn on a subject.

6. First need to have a problem to solve before any product is required.

[Woodworks]

Cant say it high on our list of worries but we do suffer with high humidity at times. If we do anything about it it will be to fit an MVHR system like the Fresh-R so no ducting 

Edited November 10, 2020 by Woodworks

[Stubby]

Only when the dog farts .

[Khriss]

8 minutes ago, Stubby said:

Only when the dog farts .

yea yea.....  K

Edited November 10, 2020 by Khriss
tha fools no one . Appen

[openspaceman]

6 hours ago, AaronG said:

Hello

 

As part of my industrial design course, I am currently looking into indoor air pollution. I understand that air quality is a concern for many of us, so I aim to generate a solution that helps to provide cleaner air for our home environments.

A big part of designing new solutions is understanding the problem from the user perspective. Hence, it would be very helpful if you could answer a few questions about your experience with air quality at home. I look forward to gaining insight through your responses.
 

Questions:

1. Is indoor air quality something that you think about often, or that impacts you on your daily life (or that of your family members)?
2. Do you take any measures to try to protect yourself or family members from poor indoor air quality at home ?
3. Are you particularly concerned about any individual home pollutants?
4. Who do you think should be responsible for improving the quality of the air in your home (if anyone)?
5. Do you think more education about indoor air pollution is needed?
6. Would you benefit from a service that highlights low polluting home products ? How would you use this information?

Thank you,
Aaron

Interesting project, at least one of the regular posters on here has a dyson fan and filter to keep irritant levels down.

 

Some researchers in America were using HEPA filters in front of circulating fans to cut pollution levels indoors during the wildfires.

 

I've been considering a corona discharge type device for settling dust particles and producing an inevitable  small amount of ozone to zap micrro bugs.

 

1 Yes I do often consider it but more in context of those 2billion people that regularly cook with open fires, because the particulates are implicated in a lot of infant mortality worldwide. It is not something I consider a lot in my own home. In the summer I was seeing about 9micro gram per m3, now with the wood stove:

 

10 Nov 2020 17:55:51.903276: PM 2.5: 7.1 μg/m^3  PM 10: 17.2 μg/m^3

 

2 not yet

 

3 No

 

4 Myself

 

5 Only for smokers and bad cooks

 

6 which pollutants are you considering?

 

[neiln]

1. Cooking smells and moisture levels yes, but no more

2. Kitchen and bathroom extractor fans always used.  Wood stoves also to dry the house.

3. No

4. Me in my home

5. No

6. No

[difflock]

Since our bedroom looks East, I have the pleasure of waking up to the Sun streaming in when the clouds allow.

This allows me to truely marvel at the massive quantity of airborne dust we are breathing each and every second of our lives. 

The fluff bunnies that accumulate almost overnight are also a perplexing wonder.

Forby that observe the effects of wind along Portstewart Strand, carrying massive quantities of sand/silica dust.

In short the human animal has evolved to survive in less than pristine air.

Btw most polished horizontal surfaces quickly accumulate a layer of probably mostly  wood ash dust from the stoves.

But unless we are going to stop sleeping in beds, all is lost.

Btw, the vast quantities of Talcum powder some females dust about their lady bits/babies bits may need properly investigating!

 

Better to campaign to stop smoking and vaping for sure, if air quality is the issue.