Improving indoor air quality

There’s no place—and no feeling—like a healthy home. It’s where you can relax in perfect comfort, without thinking twice about breathing in pollutants like Mold, Bacteria or chemicals.

So how can you make your home healthy? The first step is to learn about potential issues. Once you’ve become more informed about indoor air quality and its impacts, you can take action to get rid of the problem.

Steps you can take

There are many things you can do to improve the quality and comfort of the air inside your home. Key among them include:

Keep your furnace, air conditioner and humidifier well maintained
Use nontoxic paints, cleaning supplies and other household products whenever possible
Make sure your home is adequately ventilated
Turn on your air conditioner and/or dehumidifier during summer months, and use the “auto fan” setting to reduce humidity and save energy
Keep relative humidity within a range of 30% and 60%
Repair leaks in your roof or plumbing within 48 hours

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How Lennox can help

Professional comfort-system inspection

Your local Lennox dealer can conduct a thorough cleaning and inspection of your forced-air comfort system to make sure it’s running properly. They will also plug any leaks in your duct system.

Advanced comfort systems

Lennox offers a full selection of high-performance heating and cooling systems that work to minimize up-and-down temperature changes, and keep Hot and Cold in check.

Healthy Climate® Solutions

From industry-leading air purification to high-efficiency filtration, Lennox gives you a variety of innovative options for getting rid of bad air in your home—all without producing ozone, a lung irritant that can cause shortness of breath, wheezing and coughing.*

*U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, "Smog—Who Does It Hurt? What You Need to Know about Ozone and Your Health," July 1999