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Is Your Home Making You Sick? The Truth About Indoor Air Quality

27 May 2024 · 1 min

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This content was created by Derek Cole. This content was uploaded by Derek Cole. This is a YouTube video titled "Is Your Home Making You Sick? The Truth About Indoor Air Quality" (created 2024-05-27T23:03:38Z). The excerpt is a single-speaker informational segment explaining indoor air quality concerns: off-gassing from building materials (glues, cabinets, flooring, carpets) and how modern, tightly built energy-efficient homes trap those emissions, increasing occupant exposure compared with older, less airtight homes. The tone is explanatory and aimed at homeowners concerned about indoor pollutants.

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It is worse in your house than it is outside. That is true and I'll tell you why. Everything we have, cabinets, flooring, carpets, everything has glue adhesives. All that stuff is off gassing into your house. And homes today are built so tight that that off gas has nowhere to go but your lungs because you're breathing in, so there's no way to get out. In the old days, the older homes had kind of a, they were looser, they weren't so energy conscious, so they didn't worry about energy efficiency like today's homes are.