3 Ways To Allergy-Proof Your Home This Spring

After a long hard winter spring always seems like a breath of fresh air. However, not everyone looks forward to warmer weather with the trees and flowers blooming and inundating the air with tons of pollen spores, causing allergy suffers to deal with sneezing fits and itchy eyes.

If you are one of the millions of people that spring may not be seem like such a blessing to there are some steps you can take to reduce the toll spring-time allergens takes on your histamine levels by keeping the pollen outside, where it belongs.

Here are three ways to allergy-proof your home this spring:

Close the Windows

As simple as it sounds, keeping the windows closed will keep the vast majority of pollen out of the house. While you will be tempted to open every window and door to let in the fresh spring breezes when the warmer weather arrives, window and door screens are not effective at keeping pollen out.

Instead of opening windows and doors use air conditioning units to keep the house cool.

As an added benefit, AC units have filters that will help remove any pollen that does get inside. Be sure to completely seal the area around air conditioners with duct tape and plastic when using window units, so pollen can’t sneak in through the cracks. Change or clean the AC filters as recommended.

Keep Pets off the Furniture

Pet dander itself is an allergen, but it also bonds with and traps other types of irritants. Many animal lovers treat their pets like family members, but when dealing with springtime allergies you are well advised to banish you best friend to the floor, and this is especially true in the bedroom. In addition to keeping the animals off the couches, chairs and beds, vacuum all upholstered surfaces frequently.

Do the Laundry

No matter how diligent you are in trying to keep allergens outside some will inevitably sneak past your defenses. Pollen will get on your clothes and in your hair just from going outside. Thought the course of the day you will transfer allergens to everything you touch.

After touching yourself absentmindedly throughout the course of the day you are guaranteed to have pollen and other allergens covering you from head to toe. Once you are in for the day take a shower and put on clean clothing. More importantly, change bedding every two to three days as allergens build up quickly on pillow cases and sheets.

Constantly sneezing in your Manchester home? Call Skovron Mechanical Services LLC. at (603) 674-9885 today, and breathe in the fresh air.