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How to Stop Fragrance & Smoke Coming in From Neighbors

June 24, 2021 by Corinne 17 Comments

There are a few key things you can do to prevent infiltration of fragrance, smoke, pesticides, cleaning products, and other chemicals from entering your house.

Whether the offending chemicals are coming from a neighbor with an adjoining wall in an apartment or a duplex, another house, or the outdoor air, the main strategies are similar.

The first thing that most people do (buy an air purifier), is the last thing I would do (and is not even on this list). We need to start with far more effective strategies for preventing infiltration.

Read through all the strategies and adjust them to your circumstance.

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How to Offgas New Furniture

June 14, 2021 by Corinne 7 Comments

The first thing to do is to choose your furniture carefully if you are buying new. If you are reading this before purchasing something, that is great. Most people contact me after they have already brought in furnishings that are offgassing.

It’s a little trickier to deal with after the fact, but there are still some things you can do to promote the offgassing and remove or seal in the VOCs (including formaldehyde) if you can’t return the item or just really want to keep it.

The article goes through ways to seal, encase, and promote offgassing of VOCs.

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VOC Barriers to Block Offgassing (Furniture, Beds, Pillows)

May 30, 2021 by Corinne 15 Comments

The following strategies are used by those sensitive to chemicals to sequester, encase and block offgassing. They are more or less in order from the least effective to the most effective, though it depends on the thickness of some of the products.

You can use them to seal up an item that is offgassing VOCs, a bed and other furniture that are fragranced or sprayed with pesticides, and smaller items that are contaminated or toxic.

You could also use them for the opposite purpose, to keep items clean from contamination from chemicals that bother you.

I have also used them to sequester moldy items, the same rules would apply.

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Hi, I’m Corinne Segura, I hold a certificate in Building Biology, and a certificate in Healthier Materials and Sustainable Buildings, among other credentials below. I have 8 years of experience helping people create healthy homes.

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