r/AirQuality

Just what the tittle says... I'm getting these bouts of sick... At times a pungent odour accompanies this event... It bothers my dog...low lying. I can't pinnpoint what it is... The neighbours have been pouring some sort of liquid on their plants.

Anyone have knowledge of something I could use to monitor for say ammonia , chlorine... Other gasses? Ive searched and become overwhelmed,, frankly overwhelmed with all the ones on amazon. Please help.

I recently moved back in with my mom after living on my own for about a year. At my old apartment, I mostly used carts inside and smoked flower outside. Now that’s not really an option.

My mom and I live in a renovated basement unit of a house, and our landlord lives upstairs. My mom is worried about the landlord smelling weed, and she says she can smell it in my room, on my clothes, or when I come back inside after smoking outside.

I’ve mainly been smoking joints outside, but I’m trying to figure out if there’s a better option because I really prefer flower. I don’t love edibles since the high is more intense and lasts much longer than I like.

I’m open to buying a dry herb vaporizer if it actually makes a significant difference in odor.

For people who have switched from smoking joints to dry herb vaping:

• Does it noticeably reduce the smell on your clothes, hair, and in your room?
• Is the smell reduction substantial enough that family members or roommates stopped noticing it?
• Are there specific vaporizers you’d recommend?
• Any other tips for keeping flower use as low-odor as possible while living with family?

Basically, I’m trying to keep enjoying flower while being respectful of my mom’s concerns and minimizing the smell as much as possible.

I am running my dehumidifier 24/7 because it shows the humidity level is at 70%. And I can feel it’s damp in my unit. I live in a studio that is 550 ft.² My electric bill is $100 a month. I am curious does anybody else have this issue? The maintenance guy in my building told me this is a problem with many people who live off the lake. I’m really scared of a mold problem if I don’t run my dehumidifier.

I checked my app because of the heat, and thought it was end of the world.. turns out apple Breezeometer is just wrong... and AQI was just 30-50... Anyone ever see this before? This is Western NY near Toronto / Buffalo Area.

insane error 500 AQI from Apple

I want to get some insights into the air quality in my apartment before selecting an air purifier. Now, I live in a 100m² duplex apartment in Europe (town setting) with a large open ceiling/void connecting both floors.

My layout:

• Ground Floor (50m²): Open living/computing area, toilet, bathroom, and bedroom.

• Top Floor (50m²): Dining area, entrance hall, and kitchen.

Other factors:

• Budget: < 300 EUR

• Household: Single, no pets, non-smoker, no allergies.

• Cooking: Induction hob with an extractor hood that vents directly outside.

• Ventilation: No MEV/MVHR, but I manually air out the apartment for multiple hours daily.

• Purifier Plan: I am looking to buy one soon (considering the Xiaomi Mi Air Purifier 4 Pro) and control it automatically via HA based on these metrics.

Other recommendations are certainly welcome as long as they're available in Europe, are FOSS friendly, and integrate with Home Assistant.

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I was living in a very poorly ventilated apartment. The previous owners never turned on their ac, or replaced their old, gross carpet.

I am now extremely sensitive to poorly ventilated air. If the central air is not working well, I will know.

So, I used to pet sit and now I have to give that up because every single pet owner recently has been horrible. They don’t fix their acs and they barely work and let the place stink.

I recently moved into a new apartment with new roommates. I stupidly figured that these girls would respect my wishes to have the central air set to ‘auto’ like any normal human being would, but that has been not the case. They leave it ‘off’ 24/7 because “it costs too much”.

Do I need to explain why this makes no sense? In case you don’t know, it costs MORE to run the ac when it gets hot because it needs to work HARDER to cool down the air, vs keep it on auto all the time.

I’ve asked them several times if I could keep it on auto, and don’t seem to have the guts to tell them that I kinda need it on for medical reasons. I feel sick or short of breath otherwise.

I’m just amazed at how many people live in homes with central air that abuse it. What the hell is wrong with rich people these days? They pay to live somewhere with an ac, and then don’t use it, or don’t fix it so it works properly. And then I think the air is fine, til I’m petsitting and I find out that it’s terrible.

I know they think it’s fine because their lives revolve around themselves, but man THINK about OTHERS PLEASE.

I can be in several public places where they actually take care of the air vents designed to keep it comfortable, and I feel fine. So, what the hell is wrong with people that do otherwise? Talk about being absent minded and ignorant about other people’s needs.

Hi everyone,

I had a significant mould issue in my house, with a lot of aspergillus. I’ve spent the last two years remediating it.

The house is a five-bedroom double-brick home in one of the driest parts of Australia. As far as I can tell, all active mould has been gone for at least a year. The issue now seems to be residual contamination. I suspect I’ve become highly sensitive/allergic to remnants such as spores, mould fragments, contaminated dust, or possibly MVOCs/residue associated with the previous mould issue.

Whenever I spend time in the house, I tend to get a histamine-type reaction afterwards and feel wired/anxious. The severity seems to correlate with the dust/particle load.

About a year ago, I could barely spend any time inside, so I started trying to reduce the particle load. At first, air purifiers seemed to make the air feel worse, so my routine became repeated HEPA vacuuming and damp wiping of the hybrid timber floors. That helped bring the “hostility” of the house down to about a 3/10.

I then noticed the walls themselves seemed to be giving off some kind of smell/gas that I was reacting to, so I encapsulated them with shellac-based paint, which helped a lot. After that, I also started fogging and mopping/wiping more aggressively. That brought the house down to around a 1/10.

The air still doesn’t feel fully clean, so I’ve reintroduced air purifiers. They seem to help only when run on low to medium. If I turn them up too high, they seem to stir up settled contamination and the air feels more hostile again.

At the moment I’m running:

- a Vevor 800 CFM air scrubber and three 300 CFM air purifiers in the large kitchen/dining/lounge area;

- one 225 CFM air purifier in each bedroom.

The domestic purifiers are all Sôlt brand, which is a cheaper Australian brand.

All units are running on low to medium. The domestic units are placed centrally on the floor. The scrubber is against a wall, with the intake facing the middle of the room and the exhaust facing upward.

The air coming directly out of the units feels fresh, but the overall air in the rooms never becomes totally neutral. The PM2.5 meters on the purifiers usually hover between about 5 and 8 µg/m³ and rarely go lower.

I can’t find any obvious dust reservoirs. Most of the rooms are empty, with no furniture or stored items.

Has anyone dealt with this kind of residual mould/dust sensitivity after remediation? Any suggestions for getting the house comfortable enough to live in again?

We bought a house over a year ago and it had a smell that most described different. Carmel perfume vanilla chalk floral sweet is what many said. They say i dont smell anything but your airfreshener but we dont have 1. Our realtor said it was essential oil that the pervious owner might have used but its not a horrible smell. The house is a 20 year old clean colonial looks immaculate the previous owners had a housekeeper. But the smell will not go away and its making my son and I sick. It dries my mouth and nose out gives me a headache and feels like the air is stale and I get lightheaded. We have tried alot. We cleaned the ductwork wiped down all the walls restrained the hardwood floors called out many many company's ac furnance mold company all said house is beautiful well kept cant be mold. Everything looks good. A painter I called out smelled it made him so thirsty and dry mouth he said I should look into it further. We opened up all windows put box fans for months we have put air purifiers dehumidifier bought air quality machines etc. When I leave the house my clothes my hair smell like it I have to shower and wash my clothes to stop smelling it. Help its desoying my family my son and I moved out we cant live there. Im helpless hopeless not sure what to do.

Chicago housing market is brutal. Open houses Saturday and offers in by Monday at noon so didn’t have much time to think things over. The highway is about 150 feet. It’s elevated and higher than my house (not sure if that’s good or bad) and now I’m freaking out about health concerns.

The noise really isn’t that bad, especially inside where you don’t even hear it. But how screwed am I health wise. Bought an Air Things to measure the quality, and will definitely be buying purifiers. Is my health seriously at risk or will I be fine? Planning to live there for 7-8 years.

Why there is 500+ AQI in Delhi NCR + Haryana+ Punjab and part of Rajasthan. I got shocked 😳 to see today’s AQI in the morning at 7 AM it was 500+.

Whats happening?

i've had an Airthings view plus for over a year. I added a wave mini about six months ago. The biggest spike I've seen was to about 1500 and that was only once. There was only one other time the VOCs reached over 1000ppb up until three days ago. A "normal spike is around 200-300ppb).

Then when both monitors spiked to 3500 a couple days ago, I assumed it was because of the equipment that was outside running diesel and left my windows closed until they left. As soon as I opened my windows, the VOCs immediately started dropping, and were back to normal within an hour.

then the next morning I looked and it was back up to 3000ppb! I open the windows again and it quickly dropped back down again.

This pattern continued, so I started moving the monitors around to different rooms to see if I could identify the source and it's not coming from any particular room, including the garage.

Every time I close my windows for a few hours it builds back up quickly, and I have to open the windows again, which has caused me to call out sick from work for two days because of my allergies and it being peak allergy season.

i'm trying to identify what it could be. A few pieces of siding were removed from the exterior of my condo last week, but there were no spikes when that was done. The work they were doing the day at spiked was on a neighboring building and I don't think they did anything on mine, but it did rain the day before.

Is it possible the rain could've combined with something to cause this? I'm still not sure how it's getting inside my building though because as far as I know, it's just the siding that's been removed, they haven't put up any new vapor barriers or anything like that.

oh, and nothing else has spiked or changed by the way. it measures CO2, radon, humidity, temperature, pressure and down to PM1.

i'm not even sure what to do next because I can't smell anything that would help me identify the source. what could it be?

I'm chronically ill and I have deadly allergies to most odors, for that I had to block the air entry above my window, I open my window pretty often during the day but I have to close it quickly if I want to stay safe. I'm very tired and the air is so thick I don't know what to do. Is this safe ? Thank you

Hi everyone

Where I live the air quality seems to be getting worse theres so much dust smoke garbage being burned and trees are being cut down seeing all of this makes me feel sad and worried about the future for the past few days I havent been sleeping well because I keep thinking about it I cant stop wondering what I can do to help improve the environment even in a small way i know one person cant solve such a big problem but I also believe that every positive change starts with someone taking the first step i want to do something meaningful, but I honestly don't know where to begin. Has anyone else ever felt this way If you have found ways to make a difference in your community or improve local air quality I really appreciate hearing your ideas or experiences

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