Good IAQ Starts with Clean Air Ducts
What’s in Your Ducts?
by Kevin McKee, Pure Air Control Services
Tampa, FL -- According to the EPA, most Americans spend up to 90% of their time indoors. No wonder people are concerned with the quality of the air we breathe when inside buildings. Pollution levels are often higher indoors than outside. The EPA estimates that the indoor levels of many pollutants are 2—5 times higher, and on occasion, 100 times higher than outdoor levels.
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Building Health Check, LLC and ACR Supply Help HVAC Industry with Indoor Air Quality – IAQ Screen Check
HVAC Contractors’ #1 product request
by TransWorldNews
Durham, NC, July 1, 2008—The HVAC industry has been searching for a method to help their clients with identifying and measuring levels of the indoor environmental contaminants. As recent as 10 years ago, the #1 request from HVAC companies was for an effective indoor air quality screen test kit.
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Family Recounts Mold Ordeal
Couple suing builder say they faced hefty repair bill, illness
by Prentiss Findlay / Melissa Haneline - The Post and Courier
Wednesday, July 9, 2008 — Joan Quam is seen Tuesday with son Charlie, 8 months, and daughter Sophie, 2, in the living room of their Mount Pleasant home.
MOUNT PLEASANT — Joan and Paul Quam said Tuesday that they spent $150,000 to repair and treat their Rivertowne subdivision home after moving out for nine months last August because Paul Quam was diagnosed with the early stages of mold poisoning.
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Panel Hears Testimony on Toxic Mold
by COLIN MOYNIHAN - cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com
The New York State Toxic Mold Task Force, which first met in December, convened in an office building in Lower Manhattan on Tuesday for a daylong meeting on the health and economic impacts associated with mold.
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Mold Found in 5 Locations at Corona High
by Dianna M. Náñez - The Arizona Republic
More molds have been found at Corona del Sol High School.
Environmental testing of carpets being removed and of adjacent walls detail 2- to 3-square-inch spots of mold found at five locations on campus, according to a memo from Corona plant operations director Bob Anderson.
The July 2 memo is posted on the district's Web site, www.tuhsd.k12.az.us. According to the memo, the mold has been cleaned up.
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