First ventilate!
Does your workplace smell like the day before yesterday or your apartment like new sneakers? Anyone who now reaches for a room spray or other so-called air improvers only masks the fact that the air is simply bad and additionally burdens it!
In some buildings, air seems to be used up particularly quickly. This can be due to an energy-saving regulation: it ensures that houses are planned, built, renovated, or heated in such a way that energy demand decreases. Bravo! This relieves the environment, and we save costs - but thanks to the best thermal insulation and super-tight windows and doors, we quickly sit in stale air. The best first aid measure is: ventilate more often and thoroughly!
Tip: Smarter air exchange
Just tilt the window? Wait a moment! Ventilate like this: open the window sash wide - preferably every two hours, but at least four times a day. After five to ten minutes, the room air is completely exchanged. The colder it is outside, the faster you have fresh air inside.
But if the windows are only tilted, the exchange takes up to an hour. In winter, a lot of heating energy is lost. Also, the wall near the window cools down and is then susceptible to moisture. Showering, cooking, and breathing of a family of four produce about ten liters of water every day.
It evaporates and settles in cold spots - but damp walls are the perfect breeding ground for mold fungi, which cause allergies and damage the liver and kidneys.
If you ventilate properly, you drive away moisture and pollutants!
- So let the moisture sweated out at night escape in the morning.
- Also air out thoroughly again at noon and at the latest again
- in the early evening, especially around C02-to reduce salary.
- Get some fresh air into the house again right before going to bed.
The author: Peer-Arne Böttcher
Peer is the founder of AIRY and passionate about the topic of healthy indoor air. For many years, he has been intensively engaged with the scientific foundations and technical possibilities of how our breathing air can be sustainably improved – completely without chemicals, filters, or electricity.
