The TRUTH about our indoor air quality | Home Chemistry 101

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[tjw]

Keep up the good content Matt. I’m on the design side of a College Station remodeling company and your channel has a great impact on what we do and offer our clients. Good Company Construction is a big fan of the build show.

[mikemcgown]

It's funny (strange) how some people just can't wrap their mind around these concepts. There is a difference between smelling clean and actual clean. Candles may make it smell good in the house, but I found out years ago that candles are some of the worst things you can have inside your house. I can't/won't go into this because I'm not an expert. There are things that I learned that would take a book to explain. And like I said, I'm not an expert. Mom taught me best, "just because it smells clean doesn't mean it is clean". I'm talking about house cleaning here. But I guess it applies to many things.

[reidhamar]

Got a Febreze plug-in ad at the end of this video 😂

[davidkafka]

Risinger and Home Performance are my top two channels for building excellence.

[AlmightyUniden]

"These scientists" "not good at explaining" "chemical bad"
Yeah bro, totally sounds intelligent

[Kenjiro]

Vinegar and dish soap makes for a great general purpose cleaner, which can replace about 90% of the commercial cleaners on the market. Borax is a great disinfectant that does not emit VOCs, just follow the borax label for safety. Great video! 😁👍

[mrcuttime]

I've lived in houses for my last 3 decades. And now that I've downsized to a tight apartment I feel the build-up of CO2, esp. since I sleep on a low futon. Can you or do you talk anywhere about how to purge CO2 daily, since it pools up from the floor (it's heavier than O2 and N) and causes headaches, dizziness, fuzzy-thinking, etc.? In a house, it probably ends up on your 1st floor or basement.

[AdityaMehendale]

Would like to hear their thoughts on zip-sheathing, peel-and-stick, Schluter, spray-foam and all other sources of VOCs you introduced to your new house. How does the ingress vs. egress balance pan-out? If the egress (from vents) is not several orders-of-magnitude larger than the ingress (outgassing in your interior-space), it may be no-bueno.

[Jay_Schmidt]

Hey Matt, what retrofit systems for whole-home filtration can you use other than zehnder?

[publicmail]

Anytime someone says literally, you can bet it's not.

[adammaina]

I have learned a lot from this couple's channel and from you Matt. I am however sad to learn that wood/gas burning fire places are a very bad idea. What is left? Ugly radiators?

[cernejr]

In general, I find the air in European buildings (Germany, Czechia, Slovakia, Austria) better than in US buildings, despite the absence of central ventilation. I attribute it to use of honest building materials - concrete, mortar, bricks, steel. As opposed to glues, plastics, rubber, asphalt.

[CherimoyaQueen]

I have 1948 home with gable vents, can I seal off all those vents ?

[mdwallace]

'Your air is literally on fire'. Wait .. what. All true but that got me 😂😂 the floor is lava

[robertroberts]

Don't forget everything we bring into the home on us and our stuff from outside/store/etc. Better filtration and control is good. But, were is the finish line? An air lock entry, discard and scrub, second air lock, new suit of clothes.

[marysilva]

Great information. Thank you for sharing.
?? Do you have any videos on chemical trails? They spray over my area. Every day I see them some times 5 at the time. ????

[scha]

Lol, I burn wood in my stove all winter. Cook on my electric stove top with no kitchen hood. I’m slowly dying.

[StealthNinja]

So the funny thing is in chemistry literally every common item has a hard to pronounce chemical name. What these people are saying is scary chemical is bad go old school. Back in the day our grandparents had access to explosives and large amounts of chemical reagents that they'd give to their kids to play with.

[scottwilliams]

I installed an over the range microwave with the vent direcly through the outside wall and now my microwave doubles as a free energy refrigerator for 5 to 6 months out of the year in northeast Ohio. I wouldn't keep milk or raw meat but it's excellent for left overs. As far as chemicals for cleaning, I like to use a spray bottle of water, dish soap and rubbing alcohol.

[Hamza-xckb]

5:18 Get your facts right. The only way an Air purifier can bring ozone into your house would be If it's IONISATION Mode is ON. Not all Air purifiers create ozone with the ION mode. Good quality ones don't.