Residential Air Quality Problems

Air Quality Canada
January 17, 2020
5 min read

If you are reading this, you may or may not already be experiencing the ill effects of poor indoor air quality. You may also be concerned about your family’s health. I am here to tell you that your concerns are well warranted…. Our professional experience has unwillingly put us in a position to see dozens of very disastrous and irreversible health consequences from neglected mold or bacteria contamination problems.

SYMPTOMS & CAUSES

Taking action now to hire a certified air quality specialist could be the best decision you have ever made regarding you and your family’s health.

Typical Symptoms Our Customers Experience

By being in direct contact with or by breathing in elevated or toxic levels of indoor air contaminates, you are gambling with your short and long term health. If you already showing troubling signs of toxic building syndrome, runny nose, sneezing, headaches, coughing, the time to act is now.

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Common Sources

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What We Do

Our team can advise you regarding the state of a potential home air contamination problem whether regarding either mold or bacteria, stagnate or airborne, hidden or apparent, and provide real answers to the questions you have regarding the subject. We offer professional testing services paired with general education and support through the use of cutting edge air quality testing equipment.

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In conjunction with mold and bacteria, we also test for Radon and a whole host of other synthetic airborne contaminates; anything that could be causing your current health or other related problems is included in our air quality test assessment.

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Our Process

Upon calling our office to schedule a time for an air quality assessment, one of our team members will ask all the necessary questions to get a background into what exactly is causing your problem, so we may assess it efficiently. He or She will also briefly explain the steps of performing the assessment and give you a chance to have answered any questions that you may have at the time. Once you are satisfied with the terms of engagement, a time will be scheduled to perform the assessment which will usually last between 1-2 hours.

On testing day, the team member assigned to your account will reaffirm the testing process with the person scheduled to be home at the time to coordinate the process. Our team will be collecting both air quality samples as well as surface samples if they are warranted and perform the required thermal/ moisture testing.

A list of tests that will be performed is as follows (non exhaustive):

Air Quality Sampling & Testing

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Professional Words of Advice

Upon calling our office to schedule a time for an air quality assessment, one of our team members will ask all the necessary questions to get a background into what exactly is causing your problem, so we may assess it efficiently. He or She will also briefly explain the steps of performing the assessment and give you a chance to have answered any questions that you may have at the time. Once you are satisfied with the terms of engagement, a time will be scheduled to perform the assessment which will usually last between 1-2 hours.

On testing day, the team member assigned to your account will reaffirm the testing process with the person scheduled to be home at the time to coordinate the process. Our team will be collecting both air quality samples as well as surface samples if they are warranted and perform the required thermal/ moisture testing.


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