remediation

There are a few key things you can do to prevent the 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 …

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 off-gassing. It’s a little trickier to deal with after the fact, but there are still …

The following strategies are used by those sensitive to chemicals to sequester, encase and block off-gassing. 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 off-gassing VOCs, …