Air quality problems can be difficult to identify, isolate, and correct.
Many problems seem to start after homes are closed for the heating season.
You have a problem if your smoke detector sounds with little or no seeming reason or if your carbon monoxide detector sounds an alarm. Besides the gases that set off these two alarms, tests can easily be conducted for radon. Monitoring the health of your family is another way of identifying air quality problems. While the symptoms of many pollutants are the same as for flu and some other illness, when several family members suffer from similar symptoms and do not respond well to treatment, it could be something in the household environment. If you or some family member seems to feel better after some hours out of the home than after a few hours in the home, that is an indication that something in the home may be causing the symptoms.