Are you looking for a proven way to improve the indoor air quality in your home? While air cleaners and air filters are important, you might find that a more natural option exists, and that is adding a houseplant. Several houseplants have been shown to be hardy additions to your home that also help support healthy and clean indoor air. If you are looking to clean up your indoor air, houseplants may be one of the easiest, and most beautiful, ways to do so.
How Houseplants Clean the Air
During their normal growth cycle, plants take in carbon dioxide, process it into oxygen through the photosynthesis process. Through this process, many plants also absorb some particulates from the air. In addition, the soil the plant lives in has microorganisms that remove some of the pollutants in the air. By bringing plants indoors, they can help improve your indoor air quality while adding beauty to your space.
Which Houseplants Are Best?
So which plants should you be considering as you add them to your indoor air cleaning routine? Consider a combination of these:
- Spider plant — The spider plant loves sun and is easy to grow, while tackling formaldehyde and xylene in your indoor air.
- Ficus — The ficus tree grows to a maximum of 10 feet and loves indirect sunlight, removing formaldehyde, trichloroethylene and benzene from the air.
- Peace lily — Small with delicate blooms, the peace lily tackles ammonia, benzene, formaldehyde and trichloreothylene.
- Snake plants — Difficult to kill, the hardy snake plant will remove xylene, trichloroethylene, formaldehyde and benzene.
- Aloe vera — Not only does its juice help heal wounds and burns, but aloe vera will remove formladehyde from the air.
With so much time spent indoors, indoor air quality needs to be a priority for your home or office. If you have further questions about how to improve the indoor air quality in your Lorain home, contact the team at Energy 1 Heating & Air Conditioning.
Our goal is to help educate our customers in Lorain, Ohio about energy and home comfort issues (specific to HVAC systems). For more information about indoor air quality and other HVAC topics, download our free Home Comfort Guide or call us at 440-201-2959.
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