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Should I cover my AC unit in the summer?
To cover or not to cover? It’s a question that HVAC professionals have disagreed on for years. While there are very real benefits to covering your outdoor air conditioning unit in the summer, the practice also carries some potential drawbacks.
Best Anti-Air Pollution Technology for You and Your Home
It’s been clear for a while that when pollutants build up indoors, such as when cooking, they can easily make air quality hundreds of times worse than outdoors. We all learned a lot during the Covid-19 pandemic and are better equipped to avoid not just airborne pathogens but also the chemicals and other pollutants that pervade our air.
Introducing new air history stats for Molekule Air Pro
Molekule is thrilled to announce air history stats, an upgrade that activates a robust suite of advanced features for our Molekule Air Pro purifiers. When we introduced the Molekule Air Score and enhanced sensor capabilities back in January, it enabled us to provide customers with real-time air quality data, and this new update will take these features to the next level, allowing customers to see indoor air like never before.
Unhealthy Air Quality And Pet Health
It takes a lot of love and care to keep our furry friends happy and healthy—just think of how much time you’ve spent researching different pet foods, learning new training techniques, and browsing pet store aisles for their next favorite toy. Diet and exercise are important, but caring for your pet also means protecting them from unhealthy air quality.
Can Air Quality Predict the Big Game?
Air quality is a factor in any game, but just how much can be hard to tell. Pollution can cause a wide variety of problems, including degrading athletic performance. Some doctors even recommend that people who live in cities avoid exercise during commute hours in the morning and evening.
How to change in one day on International Mind Body Wellness Day
Whether it is adding healthy habits or subtracting the unhealthy ones, changing our behavior for the better can be really hard. International Mind Body Wellness Day is on the first Tuesday of 2023, and it is the perfect day to start down the path of wellness. Not with all healthy choices and no unhealthy choices, that is impossible.
What are the best winter face mask ideas?
Having the right gear in cold weather can be literally life-saving, just like wearing the right masks to protect from airborne pathogens. Most of us know a lot more about masks than we have in the past due to the ongoing global pandemic, but it might not be totally clear how or even if warmth and safety can be combined.
6 Christmas Dinner Alternatives to Turkey or Ham
Whether you’re worried about finding a turkey or burnt out on traditional holiday fare, it may be time to spice up the menu when hosting this holiday season. Give yourself the freedom to think outside the turkey-or-ham box and serve your guests something deliciously unexpected. There’s no shame in branching out from the holiday classics—that’s how new traditions are born!
Air Conditioner vs. Air Purifiers: How They Differ and How They Can Work Together
Air conditioners are easy to take for granted. But now that parts of the country are increasingly experiencing record-shattering heat waves, they can literally be a life-saver. Cooling power aside, air conditioners can also have some surprisingly negative effects on the air quality inside your home. Read on for a full explanation of why this is the case and what you can do to decrease harmful indoor air pollution from air conditioners.
What Is Sick Building Syndrome?
Whether you are returning after a weekend off or months of working at home, you might feel reluctant to head back to the office — especially if your work environment makes you feel uncomfortable. If you often notice yourself feeling unwell while you are in the office, it may be easy to write it off as job-related stress. However, there may be something more going on, especially if you are not the only one experiencing symptoms.
What Impacts Indoor Air Quality When You Move Homes?
Between all of the packing, checklists, documents and the realization that you have accumulated way too many things, moving is incredibly stressful — especially if you are doing so in addition to buying a new home.
What Should You Look for in an Air Purifier?
Your home is a space that should allow you to control the influence of outdoor temperatures, precipitation, and pollution. However, sealing your home from the outdoors can also trap pollutants indoors, in some cases allowing air pollution to build up to unhealthy levels. A wide range of substances can affect the air quality in your home, including particulate matter, toxic gases, viruses and bacteria.
How do HVAC systems and air purifiers work together?
Heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems are made up of different components that all work together to keep your home at a specific temperature. Some of these components are easily visible, while others may be hidden in walls, ceilings, attics or outdoors. HVAC systems contain many different parts — here are the main ones you should know about:
Announcing VOC detection and the Molekule Air Score
Molekule is happy to announce upgraded firmware for Air Pro that activates carbon dioxide, relative humidity, and VOC monitoring that pairs with an upgraded app that communicates air quality with a single score. Our hope is that this will give the public one more perspective on what is in their air.
The Top Seven U.S. States with the Worst Air Quality
To determine the "worst" air quality in a state we reviewed the ALA’s State of the Air report to see how many times a given city (and its counties, where applicable) in a state showed up in the top 25 rankings lists for year-round particle pollution, short-term particle pollution (24 hours) and ozone days. We also took into consideration the city’s proximity to major metropolitan areas.
How Does Molekule Remove the VOC Toluene?
Exposure to toluene, even in the short term, can lead to serious health issues. Fortunately, the PECO technology in Molekule not only removes it from the air, but destroys it completely.
PECO v. PCO Air Purifiers: How are they different?
Here's how Photo Electrochemical Oxidation (PECO), the proprietary tech inside the Molekule air purifier, compares with PCO- type air cleaner technology.
What Is the Best Whole House Air Purifier?
Whichever whole house air purifier you choose, it is important to set a regular maintenance schedule and to clean and replace the filters and other components to ensure that you are maintaining the healthiest air quality possible in your home.
4 Steps to Refreshing Sleep for Allergy Sufferers
Living on lost sleep when you desperately need to recharge? Here are simple steps to get better sleep, particularly for those suffering from allergies.
Consumer-Grade Air Quality Sensors: Are They Good Enough?
Air pollution affects everyone. Increasingly, people are using low-cost air quality sensors to measure this microscopic phenomenon. Can you trust the readings? The answer holds real-life implications, especially when it comes to your health.
Bed Bug Life Cycle: Stopping the Infestation in Its Tracks
Bed bug sightings tend to cause an understandable mix of horror and disgust. These little critters have an uncanny way of sneaking into perfectly clean houses and making themselves at home. Your best bet is to get rid of them as quickly as possible, but what happens when they have already started laying eggs?
Back to School Thought: Does Air Quality Matter for Students?
For parents, back-to-school season can be more than just shopping for school supplies and new clothes. It is about setting your child up for success in the upcoming school year.
5 Household Odors and How to Get Rid of Them
No matter how often you clean your home, you’re going to deal with bad smells from time to time. And once you notice them, they can be pretty hard to ignore. Most of the time, you should be able to deal with weird household smells on your own with a little bit of elbow grease. First, try to narrow down the funky scent to a single room
Guide to Household Mold Removal
The world’s surfaces are covered in mold spores just waiting to sprout. Most of these spores will crack, dry out, and die before they can start to grow, but in countless other places fuzzy colonies of fungi will appear seemingly out of nowhere to devour any organic matter they can.
Sleep Hygiene for Kids: How Much Sleep Does Your Child Need?
When you become a parent, you have to put a lot more thought into sleep, squeezing in shuteye when you can while making sure your little one is clocking the recommended hours too. As your child grows and your schedule gets more crowded, it may take even more effort to schedule naps and bedtimes to ensure they’re getting the sleep they need to support their growing bodies.
The "Too Practical" Clean Air Gift Guide
The approaching holidays have many of us scrambling to find the perfect gifts for our loved ones. There is always a sense of worry—is it too much? Is it not enough? Will they return my gift as soon as the holidays are over, or cherish it for many years to come?
What’s the best way to burn a candle?
Whether your home decor taste veers toward minimalist chic or maximalist color explosion, candles can be the perfect accent to enhance the personality of any room. But once you find a candle you love, you face the all-important question: to burn or not to burn?
How to cook healthy food without ruining your air
Cooking can be one of the biggest indoor air quality hazards when proper precautions are not taken. Different cooking methods come along with different degrees of risk. Most of us are aware that burning natural gas to cook indoors will always have a bigger negative impact on air quality than cooking the same thing with an electric stove.
What are the spookiest air pollutants this year?
Even though it’s really scary, air pollution Halloween costumes are rare due to the tendency for pollution to be invisible. This Halloween, Molekule set up a house of horrors haunted with pollutants to spread the word about the silent but violent threats lurking around your house.
Airborne Pathogens
Air Quality and SARS-CoV-2: What to Expect When School Starts this Fall
During the 2020-2021 school year, most school districts, parents, and students agreed that in-person learning was too risky due the Covid-19 pandemic, thus classes were held online at home via a video link. Now, with the fall 2021 semester fast approaching, the resurgent Delta variant has experts analyzing the available data and giving recommendations on how to proceed with the new school year.
What is an air purifier?
Air purifiers, on the surface, may seem deceptively simple — dirty air is drawn in through a vent and clean air is blown out. But the quality and technology of the mechanisms and filters inside these machines can make all the difference in determining just how effective they are at cleaning indoor air.
Setting Better Standards for Cleaner Air
Coming up with standards in the air purifier industry is challenging because air, itself, is complex. Defining performance characteristics for air purifiers starts with identifying what is in the air and measuring their impact, before methods can be developed to test the possible air purification product itself.
Top 7 things to do to reduce allergens in your home
Hi, my name is Dr. Kristamarie Collman also known as Dr. Kristamarie. I’m a Family Medicine physician, wellness enthusiast, and blogger based out of sunny Orlando, FL. In my practice, Prose Medical, I help treat people with allergies and also suffer from them too. Therefore, I thought it would be great to collaborate with Molekule Air to share a few ways we can reduce allergens in our homes.
How Molekule Air Pro Destroys Viruses
One of the most important features of Molekule Air Pro is the PECO catalyst coated onto the filter. When activated, the catalyst can destroy organic material like VOCs or infectious microbes like viruses and bacteria. Given that viral infection is on a lot of people’s minds these days, the air quality experts at Aerosol Research and Engineering Laboratories (ARE) devised a way to test Air Pro’s ability to decrease virus particles in the air.
Why Do Your Allergies Get Worse at Night?
Nighttime allergies can keep you up coughing and sneezing. Use these tips to fight back and wake up well-rested.
High or Low? When Do Pollen and Mold Spore Counts Affect You?
Knowing how to read and understand mold spore and pollen counts, as well as when they can be high or low, can help you avoid and/or limit the effects of allergy season.
Choosing the Best Air Purifier for a New Baby’s Nursery
Maintaining good indoor air quality in the home is crucial for everyone, but if you have (or are expecting) a baby, reducing indoor air pollution in the nursery is more important than ever. Pollutants and toxins in the air can have significant effects on a baby’s development, and may affect the lungs, immune system and brain.
How to Get Rid of Mold in Your House: From Ceiling to Floors to Basement
Mold is the last thing any homeowner wants to find. It damages your home and may impact your health. It can be difficult to get rid of. Preventing mold from forming in the first place is always the best option. But if you do have a mold problem in your house, it is possible to clean it up safely and make sure it does not come back.
10 Air Pollution Facts You Can’t Ignore...
Worldwide air pollution is a popular topic of debate. While policymakers may not agree on the best way to decrease emissions and improve outdoor air quality, one thing is for certain: something needs to be done.
Lingering Smells and Mysterious Odors: How to Get Rid of Them
Got lingering smells? Are the mysterious odors dangerous? Here's how to get rid of those bad smells.
Emergency Wildfire Resources
Wildfires have caused evacuations in at least 10 US states, British Columbia and Alberta, Canada so far this summer. With so many being forced from their homes, Molekule wants you to be prepared and know where to go in case of emergency.
The Top 10 “Hypoallergenic” Dogs: Are We Barking up the Wrong Tree?
The top hypoallergenic dogs are famous for a reason, as their defining characteristic sets them apart. Is there truth to the claim it will help with allergies? Learn more in this article.
The most natural tools to remove smells in the home
Odors are powerful chemicals ready to react with anything, up to and including the sensitive nerves in your nose. Removing them often requires equally powerful chemicals to dislodge, destroy, or cover them up.
7 Benefits of Air Purifiers
These days, it’s pretty easy for indoor air pollution to build up to levels that would trigger an air quality warning if they were found outside. Even something as simple as cooking dinner can pollute your home with harmful gasses and airborne particles that remain in the air long after you’ve finished eating.
Dual-Hose vs. Single-Hose Portable AC: Which is Better?
When your indoor temperatures start to rival the outdoor summer heat, it’s time to bring in some cooling reinforcements. Portable air conditioners can be an efficient, budget-friendly way to cool off a single room—they’re easier to install than window units and cheaper than most HVAC upgrades.
4 Signs You Need an Air Purifier in Your Home
Air purifiers are a great tool to cut down the presence of air pollution in your home. Not only can they work to minimize your exposure to airborne pollutants, but they may also help relieve allergy symptoms, reduce household dust, and even bust funky odors.
Should you let your dog sleep in your bed?
Humans and dogs have been sleeping side-by-side for millennia. Though the practice may have started as a means for nighttime protection and warmth, it’s evolved into a cherished tradition of human-canine bonding. Many pet parents have no problem sleeping through the night with the dog in their bed.
How to program yourself to wake up like an alarm clock
A lot of us wake up before our alarm clocks without realizing it means we can keep track of time while completely asleep. Most if not all of us are capable of purposefully waking up by anticipating when it’s time to start the day, and it’s something that can be learned.