Keep up the good content Matt. I’m on the design side of a College Station remodeling company and your channel has a great impact on what we do and offer our clients. Good Company Construction is a big fan of the build show.
It's funny (strange) how some people just can't wrap their mind around these concepts. There is a difference between smelling clean and actual clean. Candles may make it smell good in the house, but I found out years ago that candles are some of the worst things you can have inside your house. I can't/won't go into this because I'm not an expert. There are things that I learned that would take a book to explain. And like I said, I'm not an expert. Mom taught me best, "just because it smells clean doesn't mean it is clean". I'm talking about house cleaning here. But I guess it applies to many things.
Vinegar and dish soap makes for a great general purpose cleaner, which can replace about 90% of the commercial cleaners on the market. Borax is a great disinfectant that does not emit VOCs, just follow the borax label for safety. Great video! 😁👍
THIS IS NOT MEDICAL ADVICE Vinegar is actually a caustic acid, that's why it cleans well, if you inhaled concentrated vinegar it could actually kill you and it is flammable and high concentrations... so vinegar is not actually safe to breath. You can look up the health risks of any chemical by typing in the name of the chemical and then IRIS if nothing comes up type in the chemical name and safety data sheet. There is no IRIS document for acetic acid but the safety data sheet says the short term exposure limit is 15ppm and that a respiratory should be used and that it's flammable and other dangers from simple concentrated vinegar. The safety data sheet also says "Causes severe burns by all exposure routes"... "Ingestion causes severe swelling, severe damage to the delicate tissue and danger of perforation: Symptoms of overexposure may be headache, dizziness, tiredness, nauseaand vomiting" ... "Precautionary Statements Prevention Keep away from heat/sparks/open flames/hot surfaces. - No smoking Take precautionary measures against static discharge Wear protective gloves/protective clothing/eye protection/face protection Do not breathe dust/fume/gas/mist/vapors/spray Use only outdoors or in a well-ventilated area Wash face, hands and any exposed skin thoroughly after handling Keep container tightly closed Response Immediately call a POISON CENTER or doctor/physician Inhalation IF INHALED: Remove victim to fresh air and keep at rest in a position comfortable for breathing Skin IF ON SKIN (or hair): Take off immediately all contaminated clothing. Rinse skin with water/shower Wash contaminated clothing before reuse Eyes IF IN EYES: Rinse cautiously with water for several minutes. Remove contact lenses, if present and easy to do. ContinuerinsingIngestion IF SWALLOWED: Rinse mouth. DO NOT induce vomiting Fire In case of fire: Use CO2, dry chemical, or foam for extinction Storage Store locked up Store in a well-ventilated place. Keep container tightly closed Disposal Dispose of contents/container to an approved waste disposal plant Hazards not otherwise classified (HNOC) None identified" THIS IS NOT MEDICAL ADVICE
@@VenturaIT I think you are absolutely hilarious! Tell me the long term consequences of 70 years of exposure to general household chemicals like bleach, ammonia, and the host of ionic and non ionic surfactants used in those cleaners. If you are afraid of vinegar, then you will be horrified at what you find in the grocery store. To allay your fears, a half cup of vinegar with a cup of dish soap and the rest water in a spray bottle is about as strong as a typical bottle of salad dressing.
In general, I find the air in European buildings (Germany, Czechia, Slovakia, Austria) better than in US buildings, despite the absence of central ventilation. I attribute it to use of honest building materials - concrete, mortar, bricks, steel. As opposed to glues, plastics, rubber, asphalt.
Europe has been building houses for tens of thousands of years. Usually out of what's growing around you. They brought that over to America but then companies decided to convince people they have the latest and greatest technology to build buy it. You're not buying it... the other stuff is deadly. Ok government force a code and then make this mandatory
I hear this materials comment a lot. The US has more land, so lots and houses are bigger, so building with more expensive materials like brick isn't an expense the average person sees as worth the money.
@@Monaleenian In US when the AC is turned off at work, after some 30min one can smell a chemical smell, like from glue/paint. In Czechia that is uncommon, even after 30 days no such smells. The air will be stale, but no chemical smells. Bricks, mortar and concrete do not give out chemical odors.
Don't forget everything we bring into the home on us and our stuff from outside/store/etc. Better filtration and control is good. But, were is the finish line? An air lock entry, discard and scrub, second air lock, new suit of clothes.
For the normal stuff that comes in on your clothes that will get into your air. Then that air will get filtered when the furnace fan is on. So if you have a large group of people come in at the same time making sure the filtration fan is running.
Clean air has instant benefits and long term benefits. Lowering pm2.5 particles in the air you breath reduces asthma attacks, decrease the chance of autism in children, reduces heart attack rates, reduces Alzheimer’s rate’s. Hospitals know that when pm2.5 levels go up in the city they will have more people going to the ER.
@@ecospider5 don't have asthma, heart attacks, alzheimers, autism, or air filtration. I like how you've reduced complex diseases to a single root cause. Look up dihydrogen monoxide or dhmos
I have learned a lot from this couple's channel and from you Matt. I am however sad to learn that wood/gas burning fire places are a very bad idea. What is left? Ugly radiators?
Dude there's millions of people heating their homes with wood and gas living perfectly normal lives. As a chemist these guys come across as very low information marketing people. There explanations to me have glaring asterisks and I think they are geared towards scaring you without offering solutions.
Would like to hear their thoughts on zip-sheathing, peel-and-stick, Schluter, spray-foam and all other sources of VOCs you introduced to your new house. How does the ingress vs. egress balance pan-out? If the egress (from vents) is not several orders-of-magnitude larger than the ingress (outgassing in your interior-space), it may be no-bueno.
Short version: How Perfect Can a New Home's Chemistry Get? Healthy Indoors Minute with Prism's Dr. Alice Delia ruclips.net/video/r5Ht3YrETvI/видео.html Longer odysseys: Healthy Interior Finishes: Low Chemical Impact, Non-Reactive, Non-Toxic Materials for Homes ruclips.net/video/mZTIRg17kdA/видео.html Ep213: Proof (Testing Our New Home's Performance)- Home Diagnosis TV Series ruclips.net/video/qFZlk0sofEY/видео.html
I installed an over the range microwave with the vent direcly through the outside wall and now my microwave doubles as a free energy refrigerator for 5 to 6 months out of the year in northeast Ohio. I wouldn't keep milk or raw meat but it's excellent for left overs. As far as chemicals for cleaning, I like to use a spray bottle of water, dish soap and rubbing alcohol.
I've lived in houses for my last 3 decades. And now that I've downsized to a tight apartment I feel the build-up of CO2, esp. since I sleep on a low futon. Can you or do you talk anywhere about how to purge CO2 daily, since it pools up from the floor (it's heavier than O2 and N) and causes headaches, dizziness, fuzzy-thinking, etc.? In a house, it probably ends up on your 1st floor or basement.
Let's think about renters whose numbers are increasing due to housing getting bought up by investors. The investors don't give a rip about their tenants' air quality. Profit is all that matters so I'm of the opinion investors should be required to bring up ventilation to code and pass inspection before being allowed to rent. Related note the kitchen ventilation code should stop allowing the in-stove vent. My unit came with one and all it does is pull the gas flame toward the vent and double your cooking time. Overhead vent is the only solution.
Here's a thought how about you buy the over head vent if you like it and let the code cover building stuff structurally sound. The code is not meant to ban stuff you don't like that's inconsequential. Part of why housing is so expensive is because of coding abuse. Between that, wage stagnation, job exportation, inflation, degree dilution, predatory lending, and house flipping the housing market is stacked against ownership
Jay take a look at CERV / Build Equinox system. They are a father and son dedicated to indoor air. The father is a PHD on IAQ. The son is a mechanical engineer who builds the systems. The are based out of Urbana IL. All are made in the USA
Hi, and thank you for the video. I have a question if I could please. I was trying to find a video to figure out where this terrible stenchy/stale smell is coming from? The gas fireplace, as well as the vent area above the stove and under the sink all have this aweful stale/stency smell. Unfortunately, I am in an apartment, but it's better than staying in my 97 Ford escort. because I was due to many health challenges. I called maintenance here, but I have not heard back from them, and it's been over a week 🙄 I have never used the gas fireplace, and I moved into this apartment about 3-4 months ago. The garden-style apartments that I am in, from what I understand, were built in 2000. I do not have pets, and do not use any toxic, lab-made scented products of any kind. I covered the gas fire with reflectix to try and stop stency smell from blowing in as much as possible 🤢 I have two air purifiers and I heard the woman say that they're not good!?🤦 apparently the Austin air purifier has like 15 lb of Coconut carbon in it. I am wondering if you have any ideas or anyone I could ask about these awful smells? Also, I am open to moving to a different style apartment if you have any suggestions. Thank you so much for your help and time. Diane, WA. State P.S. people need to be aware, and know that the EPA does not regulate any of the toxic, scented, lab-made detergent and dryer sheets spewing out from so many people's washers and dryers daily😞.. polluting humans, animals, and our drinking water🙏🌎
It's not so much that we're bad at explaining, we frustrate the shit out of people if we're good at what we do cause we know how narrow our experiments are and how applicable they are outside of the lab. I once stood in front of a tank of liquid nitrogen, filling an instrument, and logically explained to an old lady working as a temp in words she could understand what my job was, how liquid nitrogen works, and what the potential benefits were to filling her tires with nitrogen was (only other time she heard of nitrogen).
Other than toilet bowl cleaning, good old soap is all we need anywhere. What I don't like are the building codes that force many hours of outdoor air that is 110 degrees to be introduced whether we like it or not. We need every lot that has adequate water to stuff that property with trees. They are the lungs of the world.
@@HomePerformance the air isn't "on fire"... fire is a self sustaining combustion reaction which is a subset of redox reactions. Longer carbon structures are oxidized into smaller carbon structures until the fuel is exhausted or the reaction is interrupted. 9-9
I did not find any definition of fire that required it to be sustained. In the simplest form it is a chemical reaction where oxygen is involved and it produces heat. So when an ozone molecule touches the gases coming from scented oil that can be considered burning because the outcome is co2 water heat and a bunch of other stuff. Regularly that other stuff will include pm2.5 particles which are bad for you.
I'll let you in on a secret chemistry has been around since the dawn of time, we've been building for centuries. The human race continues to grow and thrive despite these "scientific" results.
So the funny thing is in chemistry literally every common item has a hard to pronounce chemical name. What these people are saying is scary chemical is bad go old school. Back in the day our grandparents had access to explosives and large amounts of chemical reagents that they'd give to their kids to play with.
Great information. Thank you for sharing. ?? Do you have any videos on chemical trails? They spray over my area. Every day I see them some times 5 at the time. ????
I have an electric island cooktop with downdraft ventilation. There are 2 skylights in the kitchen, thinking of adding a fan so I can exhaust out of the skylight what do you think?
I have a gas stove in island with downdraft. Seemed like a great idea but it did a terrible job at exhausting. It basically would pull the heat from under the pot and not remove any of the fumes coming from the top of pot. Gonna add a hood I guess. Got any ideas to improve downdraft ?
@@HomePerformance oh my. It may be literally the same, or a similar chemical oxidation process, but it is not literally on fire. Fire has an actual - literal - definition. So again, while the air might figuratively be on fire in a similar chemical sense, it is not literally on fire.
@@JimYeats I would love to see freshmen walking into a lab and going over to the fire extinguishers and spraying down the air. All fires are redox reactions but not all redox reactions are fire. Cars rusting away, plants undergoing photosynthesis, electroplating metals, etc are not fire. These guys need to stick to grade school instead of trying to explain things to adults.
@@StealthNinja4577 Yeah it just gets frustrating when channels like Risinger’s start to just get click baity and depart from actual building science and into this pseudo science.
@@JimYeats I was interested in learning more about how to build stuff right the first time so for us that can't afford to level a house and build a new one with all these luxury features can save money. In the end I just hear sub contract it out, buy the most expensive product, and the guys writing the code are listening to these people. As an actual chemist it hurts.
I know it’s not your jam, but I have a 1908 home heated with radiators and I’ve been renovating rooms, making it more tight, and I really am starting to worry about the air. I could really use some help planning the right kind of fresh air retrofit. Any advice?
In my opinion you're gonna just trap moisture and get mold issues. As was said by matt his house is "tight" but then he ventilates it. That's like putting plastic wrap over a bowl and poking holes in it. While everyone else has a paper towel over the bowl they're touting the benefits of 100% sealed... but with holes
@@StealthNinja4577 I live in Minnesota where the air regularly gets anywhere from -10 to -30 F every winter. I also live in a loud area. After living in this house uninsulated for 15 years, and having tightened three rooms already, there’s no way I’m going to stop. But I’ll retrofit some kind of fresh air exchange in the bedrooms, office, kitchen and bathrooms. Up here I think most exchanges have tech to at least somewhat heat the incoming air with the warmth from the exhaust air. I just don’t see a lot of deep dives for adding vents to houses with radiators and boilers.
@@sivacrom on the other side of the great lakes so I get it. Our humidity up north keeps changing with the seasons. Don't get me wrong I'm not saying to not insulate. I'm saying that tightening is probably a mistake. I'd probably fill the cavities between the studs with rockwool and put in triple pane casement windows and make sure that they're not overly drafty around the install.
Isn’t the benefit of tightening + ventilation that you can control the humidity and filter the air coming in? And also with heat exchangers capture and reuse some of the heat in the air? Or am I missing something?
@@alanpearly I think you’re right about that. I just really thirst for a RUclips video where somebody goes into a house with radiators and installs a fresh air exchange system, so I can see what I’m up against.
Don't open the windows and let in the ozone, but spend $10k or more on a ventilation system that brings in "fresh" air from the outside. Hmmm, how does that work?
People go on expensive vacations to lakes, beaches, mountains just to get air that has more ozone in it... Ozone is what gives the air the fresh smell... I don't buy that Ozone is such a silent killer, there's some Fauci science going on there. But this isn't medical advice. The fresh smell after a thunderstorm or lightening is from the ozone. These people aren't very big picture thinking, all the air comes from outside. The would need a space suit to live in their house if it were "air tight."... and then if it's too airtight and the ventilation fan breaks, then they would die... ALL THE OXYGEN comes from outside... a house can only have as clean of air as the outdoors provides... it's easy to filter particles but almost impossible to filter gases (VOCs)... that's why paint booths at body shops switched from respirators to self contained oxygen sources, because they finally realized that the respirator could not filter out all the gases (VOCs) from paint and other solvents and it was killing people... and still is. Unless someone is a hard scientist they probably will not understand the science required to understand air quality fully and they will make a lot of incorrect assumptions out of ignorance.
If your home was airtight you'd suffocate and die... some rules about air quality... all of your oxygen which humans need to survive comes from OUTSIDE... tiny particles in the air outside will always come inside with the oxygen, so you are always only as good as your outdoor air, so if your neighbor is a smoker, then so are you... if your neighbor is having a BBQ then you are breathing the fumes from his/her BBQ, if you take the fire outside like she suggested in this video, then those particles are going to go off the charts inside too... and particulate pollution can contribute to all kinds of health problems like heart disease, kidney disease, and even dementia... then you have the gases or the VOCs... which come from chemicals, combustion, and from synthetic (plastic) objects like synthetic carpet and sprays and solvents and fireplaces and BBQs, smoking, marijuana, etc... these VOCs can cause organ failure and cancer... and air purifiers are pretty good at filtering particulates but even the very best thousand dollar home VOC filters can only filter about 9% of the VOCs from the air and even then it takes hours, and by that time everyone in the house has already been exposed... so you cannot really filter gases effectively. On top of that some ozone is actually good, it cleans the air, it's the fresh smell after a rain storm or thunder or at the beach... and then there are negative ions which have been shown by a Japanese doctor to have anti-cancer effects in laboratory animals... very few people check the oxygen levels, co2 levels, VOC levels, and ultra-fine particulate levels of their homes... and if they did it would probably drive them crazy because in a home it's almost impossible to have low VOC levels without an expensive filtered fresh air intake with the house exterior air being clean and fresh, and low particulate levels because as you open the windows you can lower the VOC's and CO2 but you increase the particulate levels... a MERV13 furnace filters is a great whole house filter but it does nothing for VOCs... VOCs are the hardest pollutant to deal with and the only solution is a fresh air intake with a particle and carbon filter and your outdoor air must be free from pollution too... if your neighbor is having a BBQ then your fresh air intake is going to suck in all those carcinogenic BBQ fumes that are almost impossible to filter.... this is why governments are directing everyone to electric cars and green energy because they finally realize that combustion activities are literally killing us.
5:18 Get your facts right. The only way an Air purifier can bring ozone into your house would be If it's IONISATION Mode is ON. Not all Air purifiers create ozone with the ION mode. Good quality ones don't.
So it turns out these excited oxygen species, from anions or cold plasma . Are a universal cancer treatment inducing apoptosis, with the only downside being oxidative stress , that can be managed by hydrogen inhalation. Adding nanoparticles really makes some of these air purifiers almost surgical.
@Marco Polo you want me to travel to you to insult you . Why . If you intention in to assault me with a gun . No . If you have two guns and want to duel. Maybe. If you want to fight . No . I have better things to do
"If you can't pronounce the name of the chemicals [...]" That's a really bad rule of thumb. I can easily pronounce cyanide, arsenic and hydrogen fluoride, and those are really bad for your. I don't really know how to pronounce Methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylarginyl[another 189,766 letters go inside these square brackets; no seriously - it's the full chemical name of a protein made in humans. It is more than 1 µm in length and functions as a molecular spring and is responsible for the passive elasticity of muscles]isoleucine, and it's a fairly vital thing in our body.
Matt your really doubling down on this anti-gas cooking. What is the deal? While we can all agree that combustion is going to produce gas and particulate that can be breathed in which is the need for an exhaust hood. There are other factors to consider: the cost of units gas being cheaper upfront and long term; the responsiveness to cooking electric takes longer to heat up and cool down; the energy consumption and cost attached electric is 2-3 time more energy to cook with than gas and with everything going electric: cars, battery operated tools, electric mowers... the infrastructure is not being maintained let alone expanding, most electric ranges have glass tops which can get break and scratched. There is some debate over ovens though while electric is slow to heat comparatively they tend to perform better
Buy a Dylos 1100 Pro laser particle detector and have it around the house and look how it explodes in number when you turn on the BBQ or gas cooker, cooking with fire or gas releases an incredible amount of particulate pollution, it might amaze you in comparison to other activities... this is why governments are pushing so hard for a world without combustion energy and transportation, the combustion activities are literally killing us.
Osb and every other wood short of marine grade lumber isn't meant to be wet. At. All. Fungi grow on logs in the forest exposed to rain and you're literally recreating that environment. Fiber glass is meant to stay in the wall undisturbed while the installation dust is vacuumed and removed
Ditto carbon monoxide. Ditto carbon dioxide. Ditto formaldehyde. Are you really saying you don’t see proportions? All of them have toxic effects when out of normal balance.
both of you need to take a chemistry class at the local community college... nitrogen is harmless at concentrations found in normal air, it's part of air hydrogen is harmless at low concentrations, but it's flammable, it's also the main constituent of water, take it out of the water and you get hydrogen fuel (more powerful than gasoline) but combine these elements into NH3 (ammonia) and it becomes toxic and dangerous and can kill you just by inhaling too much at low concentrations... this is why only chemists with phd's and toxicologists with MD's should comment on these topics for example: OSHA allows 1-5 ppm of ethylene oxide in workplaces EPA recommends only less than .0001 ppb before it greatly increases your chance of cancer risk That's a difference of 10-50 million, so either OSHA is killing employees around the country or the EPA is too stringent. I'd personally err on the side of caution and go with the EPA value. this is not medical advice
@@VenturaIT right, anyone reading this will soon realize you never took grade 12 chem or even first year chem post secondary. Everyone here has used windex and lived to talk about it, not something you want to smell 24/7 but has never killed anyone when used as intended. Also Ethylene Oxide has more in common with hydrocarbon fuels than it does Ammonia. I’d recommend you read the Wikipedia on ammonia then the Wikipedia on Dunning Kruger.
Can we keep the snake oil off the channel? While some of the things they are talking about are somewhat true the way they speak to them shows that they clearly have no idea what they are talking about.
This is hard to watch. I’d rather listen to Matt covering these topics. Maybe they paid to have a placement on the channel which is fine but I’m skipping this one
Hey Stephen- you’re right, it’s not about that at all for us. Making sure our kids get to develop to their full potential physically, hormonally, and mentally- that might be worth it, no?
@@HomePerformance science is about controls and quantification. We can't take your kid develop them in a controlled environment and then retest his development with your changes. You could be doing harm, you could have the secret to success, most likely you're doing something inconsequential and just wasting your time. Plenty of people grow up in the hood and get advanced degrees in math and science, and there's plenty of suburban kids that turn into failed drug addicts... I know both personally.
@@HomePerformance isn't that why we are here ? But none of the issues our government are pushing will change their future. They will only make it worse
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Keep up the good content Matt. I’m on the design side of a College Station remodeling company and your channel has a great impact on what we do and offer our clients. Good Company Construction is a big fan of the build show.
It's funny (strange) how some people just can't wrap their mind around these concepts. There is a difference between smelling clean and actual clean. Candles may make it smell good in the house, but I found out years ago that candles are some of the worst things you can have inside your house. I can't/won't go into this because I'm not an expert. There are things that I learned that would take a book to explain. And like I said, I'm not an expert. Mom taught me best, "just because it smells clean doesn't mean it is clean". I'm talking about house cleaning here. But I guess it applies to many things.
Clean has no smell.
Vinegar and dish soap makes for a great general purpose cleaner, which can replace about 90% of the commercial cleaners on the market. Borax is a great disinfectant that does not emit VOCs, just follow the borax label for safety. Great video! 😁👍
Baking soda is effective too
Nobody likes the smell of vinegar.
But as far as I know, I'm the only exception that can handle the smell of vinegar just fine.
THIS IS NOT MEDICAL ADVICE
Vinegar is actually a caustic acid, that's why it cleans well, if you inhaled concentrated vinegar it could actually kill you and it is flammable and high concentrations... so vinegar is not actually safe to breath. You can look up the health risks of any chemical by typing in the name of the chemical and then IRIS if nothing comes up type in the chemical name and safety data sheet. There is no IRIS document for acetic acid but the safety data sheet says the short term exposure limit is 15ppm and that a respiratory should be used and that it's flammable and other dangers from simple concentrated vinegar. The safety data sheet also says "Causes severe burns by all exposure routes"...
"Ingestion causes severe swelling, severe damage to the delicate tissue and danger of
perforation: Symptoms of overexposure may be headache, dizziness, tiredness, nauseaand vomiting"
...
"Precautionary Statements
Prevention
Keep away from heat/sparks/open flames/hot surfaces. - No smoking
Take precautionary measures against static discharge
Wear protective gloves/protective clothing/eye protection/face protection
Do not breathe dust/fume/gas/mist/vapors/spray
Use only outdoors or in a well-ventilated area
Wash face, hands and any exposed skin thoroughly after handling
Keep container tightly closed
Response
Immediately call a POISON CENTER or doctor/physician
Inhalation
IF INHALED: Remove victim to fresh air and keep at rest in a position comfortable for breathing
Skin
IF ON SKIN (or hair): Take off immediately all contaminated clothing. Rinse skin with water/shower
Wash contaminated clothing before reuse
Eyes
IF IN EYES: Rinse cautiously with water for several minutes. Remove contact lenses, if present and easy to do. ContinuerinsingIngestion
IF SWALLOWED: Rinse mouth. DO NOT induce vomiting
Fire
In case of fire: Use CO2, dry chemical, or foam for extinction
Storage
Store locked up
Store in a well-ventilated place. Keep container tightly closed
Disposal
Dispose of contents/container to an approved waste disposal plant
Hazards not otherwise classified (HNOC)
None identified"
THIS IS NOT MEDICAL ADVICE
@@VenturaIT I think you are absolutely hilarious! Tell me the long term consequences of 70 years of exposure to general household chemicals like bleach, ammonia, and the host of ionic and non ionic surfactants used in those cleaners.
If you are afraid of vinegar, then you will be horrified at what you find in the grocery store.
To allay your fears, a half cup of vinegar with a cup of dish soap and the rest water in a spray bottle is about as strong as a typical bottle of salad dressing.
Risinger and Home Performance are my top two channels for building excellence.
Agreed!
In general, I find the air in European buildings (Germany, Czechia, Slovakia, Austria) better than in US buildings, despite the absence of central ventilation. I attribute it to use of honest building materials - concrete, mortar, bricks, steel. As opposed to glues, plastics, rubber, asphalt.
Europe has been building houses for tens of thousands of years. Usually out of what's growing around you. They brought that over to America but then companies decided to convince people they have the latest and greatest technology to build buy it. You're not buying it... the other stuff is deadly. Ok government force a code and then make this mandatory
I hear this materials comment a lot. The US has more land, so lots and houses are bigger, so building with more expensive materials like brick isn't an expense the average person sees as worth the money.
And they open windows because most don't need AC.
What differences did you observe between the air in US buildings and that in European buildings?
@@Monaleenian In US when the AC is turned off at work, after some 30min one can smell a chemical smell, like from glue/paint. In Czechia that is uncommon, even after 30 days no such smells. The air will be stale, but no chemical smells. Bricks, mortar and concrete do not give out chemical odors.
Got a Febreze plug-in ad at the end of this video 😂
Don't forget everything we bring into the home on us and our stuff from outside/store/etc. Better filtration and control is good. But, were is the finish line? An air lock entry, discard and scrub, second air lock, new suit of clothes.
For the normal stuff that comes in on your clothes that will get into your air. Then that air will get filtered when the furnace fan is on. So if you have a large group of people come in at the same time making sure the filtration fan is running.
I'd like an effectiveness rating. How do you measure the benefits. Do you get 1 extra year on your life or 2 extra minutes for all the effort.
Clean air has instant benefits and long term benefits. Lowering pm2.5 particles in the air you breath reduces asthma attacks, decrease the chance of autism in children, reduces heart attack rates, reduces Alzheimer’s rate’s.
Hospitals know that when pm2.5 levels go up in the city they will have more people going to the ER.
Search for “problems with pm2.5“ to see more.
@@ecospider5 don't have asthma, heart attacks, alzheimers, autism, or air filtration. I like how you've reduced complex diseases to a single root cause. Look up dihydrogen monoxide or dhmos
I have learned a lot from this couple's channel and from you Matt. I am however sad to learn that wood/gas burning fire places are a very bad idea. What is left? Ugly radiators?
Dude there's millions of people heating their homes with wood and gas living perfectly normal lives. As a chemist these guys come across as very low information marketing people. There explanations to me have glaring asterisks and I think they are geared towards scaring you without offering solutions.
@@StealthNinja4577 MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY!
Would like to hear their thoughts on zip-sheathing, peel-and-stick, Schluter, spray-foam and all other sources of VOCs you introduced to your new house. How does the ingress vs. egress balance pan-out? If the egress (from vents) is not several orders-of-magnitude larger than the ingress (outgassing in your interior-space), it may be no-bueno.
We have videos all about that, hope you come over and check them out.
@@HomePerformance Any particular one you'd recommend? (topical, for this question?) Thanks!
Short version:
How Perfect Can a New Home's Chemistry Get? Healthy Indoors Minute with Prism's Dr. Alice Delia
ruclips.net/video/r5Ht3YrETvI/видео.html
Longer odysseys:
Healthy Interior Finishes: Low Chemical Impact, Non-Reactive, Non-Toxic Materials for Homes
ruclips.net/video/mZTIRg17kdA/видео.html
Ep213: Proof (Testing Our New Home's Performance)- Home Diagnosis TV Series
ruclips.net/video/qFZlk0sofEY/видео.html
I installed an over the range microwave with the vent direcly through the outside wall and now my microwave doubles as a free energy refrigerator for 5 to 6 months out of the year in northeast Ohio. I wouldn't keep milk or raw meat but it's excellent for left overs. As far as chemicals for cleaning, I like to use a spray bottle of water, dish soap and rubbing alcohol.
I've lived in houses for my last 3 decades. And now that I've downsized to a tight apartment I feel the build-up of CO2, esp. since I sleep on a low futon. Can you or do you talk anywhere about how to purge CO2 daily, since it pools up from the floor (it's heavier than O2 and N) and causes headaches, dizziness, fuzzy-thinking, etc.? In a house, it probably ends up on your 1st floor or basement.
Let's think about renters whose numbers are increasing due to housing getting bought up by investors. The investors don't give a rip about their tenants' air quality. Profit is all that matters so I'm of the opinion investors should be required to bring up ventilation to code and pass inspection before being allowed to rent.
Related note the kitchen ventilation code should stop allowing the in-stove vent. My unit came with one and all it does is pull the gas flame toward the vent and double your cooking time. Overhead vent is the only solution.
Here's a thought how about you buy the over head vent if you like it and let the code cover building stuff structurally sound. The code is not meant to ban stuff you don't like that's inconsequential. Part of why housing is so expensive is because of coding abuse. Between that, wage stagnation, job exportation, inflation, degree dilution, predatory lending, and house flipping the housing market is stacked against ownership
Hey Matt, what retrofit systems for whole-home filtration can you use other than zehnder?
Broan AI Series.
Jay take a look at CERV / Build Equinox system. They are a father and son dedicated to indoor air. The father is a PHD on IAQ. The son is a mechanical engineer who builds the systems. The are based out of Urbana IL. All are made in the USA
Hi, and thank you for the video. I have a question if I could please.
I was trying to find a video to figure out where this terrible stenchy/stale smell is coming from? The gas fireplace, as well as the vent area above the stove and under the sink all have this aweful stale/stency smell. Unfortunately, I am in an apartment, but it's better than staying in my 97 Ford escort. because I was due to many health challenges.
I called maintenance here, but I have not heard back from them, and it's been over a week 🙄 I have never used the gas fireplace, and I moved into this apartment about 3-4 months ago. The garden-style apartments that I am in, from what I understand, were built in 2000. I do not have pets, and do not use any toxic, lab-made scented products of any kind.
I covered the gas fire with reflectix to try and stop stency smell from blowing in as much as possible 🤢 I have two air purifiers and I heard the woman say that they're not good!?🤦 apparently the Austin air purifier has like 15 lb of Coconut carbon in it.
I am wondering if you have any ideas or anyone I could ask about these awful smells?
Also, I am open to moving to a different style apartment if you have any suggestions. Thank you so much for your help and time.
Diane, WA. State
P.S. people need to be aware, and know that the EPA does not regulate any of the toxic, scented, lab-made detergent and dryer sheets spewing out from so many people's washers and dryers daily😞.. polluting humans, animals, and our drinking water🙏🌎
"These scientists" "not good at explaining" "chemical bad"
Yeah bro, totally sounds intelligent
It's not so much that we're bad at explaining, we frustrate the shit out of people if we're good at what we do cause we know how narrow our experiments are and how applicable they are outside of the lab. I once stood in front of a tank of liquid nitrogen, filling an instrument, and logically explained to an old lady working as a temp in words she could understand what my job was, how liquid nitrogen works, and what the potential benefits were to filling her tires with nitrogen was (only other time she heard of nitrogen).
@@StealthNinja4577 what🤣
Other than toilet bowl cleaning, good old soap is all we need anywhere. What I don't like are the building codes that force many hours of outdoor air that is 110 degrees to be introduced whether we like it or not. We need every lot that has adequate water to stuff that property with trees. They are the lungs of the world.
Anytime someone says literally, you can bet it's not.
They had to update the definition in the dictionary do to that. So now literally doesn’t mean literally anymore. Fricken hilarious.
AD, you follow our channel, you know the air is literally on fire. It’s not misuse. Aka caconym.
@@HomePerformance the air isn't "on fire"... fire is a self sustaining combustion reaction which is a subset of redox reactions. Longer carbon structures are oxidized into smaller carbon structures until the fuel is exhausted or the reaction is interrupted.
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I did not find any definition of fire that required it to be sustained. In the simplest form it is a chemical reaction where oxygen is involved and it produces heat. So when an ozone molecule touches the gases coming from scented oil that can be considered burning because the outcome is co2 water heat and a bunch of other stuff. Regularly that other stuff will include pm2.5 particles which are bad for you.
Lol, I burn wood in my stove all winter. Cook on my electric stove top with no kitchen hood. I’m slowly dying.
I'll let you in on a secret chemistry has been around since the dawn of time, we've been building for centuries. The human race continues to grow and thrive despite these "scientific" results.
How should I use Science? Let’s scare people with it.
So the funny thing is in chemistry literally every common item has a hard to pronounce chemical name. What these people are saying is scary chemical is bad go old school. Back in the day our grandparents had access to explosives and large amounts of chemical reagents that they'd give to their kids to play with.
So if you are bringing in fresh air through an HRV aren't you bringing in OZONE?
'Your air is literally on fire'. Wait .. what. All true but that got me 😂😂 the floor is lava
Great information. Thank you for sharing.
?? Do you have any videos on chemical trails? They spray over my area. Every day I see them some times 5 at the time. ????
I have an electric island cooktop with downdraft ventilation. There are 2 skylights in the kitchen, thinking of adding a fan so I can exhaust out of the skylight what do you think?
I have a gas stove in island with downdraft. Seemed like a great idea but it did a terrible job at exhausting. It basically would pull the heat from under the pot and not remove any of the fumes coming from the top of pot. Gonna add a hood I guess. Got any ideas to improve downdraft ?
What if you have a ductless minisplit
Your air is FIGURATIVELY on fire. Not literally.
No. Literally the same chemistry process. Redox. Look it up.
@@HomePerformance oh my. It may be literally the same, or a similar chemical oxidation process, but it is not literally on fire. Fire has an actual - literal - definition.
So again, while the air might figuratively be on fire in a similar chemical sense, it is not literally on fire.
@@JimYeats I would love to see freshmen walking into a lab and going over to the fire extinguishers and spraying down the air. All fires are redox reactions but not all redox reactions are fire. Cars rusting away, plants undergoing photosynthesis, electroplating metals, etc are not fire. These guys need to stick to grade school instead of trying to explain things to adults.
@@StealthNinja4577 Yeah it just gets frustrating when channels like Risinger’s start to just get click baity and depart from actual building science and into this pseudo science.
@@JimYeats I was interested in learning more about how to build stuff right the first time so for us that can't afford to level a house and build a new one with all these luxury features can save money. In the end I just hear sub contract it out, buy the most expensive product, and the guys writing the code are listening to these people. As an actual chemist it hurts.
I know it’s not your jam, but I have a 1908 home heated with radiators and I’ve been renovating rooms, making it more tight, and I really am starting to worry about the air. I could really use some help planning the right kind of fresh air retrofit. Any advice?
In my opinion you're gonna just trap moisture and get mold issues. As was said by matt his house is "tight" but then he ventilates it. That's like putting plastic wrap over a bowl and poking holes in it. While everyone else has a paper towel over the bowl they're touting the benefits of 100% sealed... but with holes
@@StealthNinja4577 I live in Minnesota where the air regularly gets anywhere from -10 to -30 F every winter. I also live in a loud area. After living in this house uninsulated for 15 years, and having tightened three rooms already, there’s no way I’m going to stop. But I’ll retrofit some kind of fresh air exchange in the bedrooms, office, kitchen and bathrooms. Up here I think most exchanges have tech to at least somewhat heat the incoming air with the warmth from the exhaust air. I just don’t see a lot of deep dives for adding vents to houses with radiators and boilers.
@@sivacrom on the other side of the great lakes so I get it. Our humidity up north keeps changing with the seasons. Don't get me wrong I'm not saying to not insulate. I'm saying that tightening is probably a mistake. I'd probably fill the cavities between the studs with rockwool and put in triple pane casement windows and make sure that they're not overly drafty around the install.
Isn’t the benefit of tightening + ventilation that you can control the humidity and filter the air coming in? And also with heat exchangers capture and reuse some of the heat in the air? Or am I missing something?
@@alanpearly I think you’re right about that. I just really thirst for a RUclips video where somebody goes into a house with radiators and installs a fresh air exchange system, so I can see what I’m up against.
Don't open the windows and let in the ozone, but spend $10k or more on a ventilation system that brings in "fresh" air from the outside. Hmmm, how does that work?
Nobody said don’t open windows. Like anything worth mulling over, it’s complicated.
People go on expensive vacations to lakes, beaches, mountains just to get air that has more ozone in it... Ozone is what gives the air the fresh smell... I don't buy that Ozone is such a silent killer, there's some Fauci science going on there. But this isn't medical advice. The fresh smell after a thunderstorm or lightening is from the ozone. These people aren't very big picture thinking, all the air comes from outside. The would need a space suit to live in their house if it were "air tight."... and then if it's too airtight and the ventilation fan breaks, then they would die... ALL THE OXYGEN comes from outside... a house can only have as clean of air as the outdoors provides... it's easy to filter particles but almost impossible to filter gases (VOCs)... that's why paint booths at body shops switched from respirators to self contained oxygen sources, because they finally realized that the respirator could not filter out all the gases (VOCs) from paint and other solvents and it was killing people... and still is. Unless someone is a hard scientist they probably will not understand the science required to understand air quality fully and they will make a lot of incorrect assumptions out of ignorance.
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If your home was airtight you'd suffocate and die... some rules about air quality... all of your oxygen which humans need to survive comes from OUTSIDE... tiny particles in the air outside will always come inside with the oxygen, so you are always only as good as your outdoor air, so if your neighbor is a smoker, then so are you... if your neighbor is having a BBQ then you are breathing the fumes from his/her BBQ, if you take the fire outside like she suggested in this video, then those particles are going to go off the charts inside too... and particulate pollution can contribute to all kinds of health problems like heart disease, kidney disease, and even dementia... then you have the gases or the VOCs... which come from chemicals, combustion, and from synthetic (plastic) objects like synthetic carpet and sprays and solvents and fireplaces and BBQs, smoking, marijuana, etc... these VOCs can cause organ failure and cancer... and air purifiers are pretty good at filtering particulates but even the very best thousand dollar home VOC filters can only filter about 9% of the VOCs from the air and even then it takes hours, and by that time everyone in the house has already been exposed... so you cannot really filter gases effectively. On top of that some ozone is actually good, it cleans the air, it's the fresh smell after a rain storm or thunder or at the beach... and then there are negative ions which have been shown by a Japanese doctor to have anti-cancer effects in laboratory animals... very few people check the oxygen levels, co2 levels, VOC levels, and ultra-fine particulate levels of their homes... and if they did it would probably drive them crazy because in a home it's almost impossible to have low VOC levels without an expensive filtered fresh air intake with the house exterior air being clean and fresh, and low particulate levels because as you open the windows you can lower the VOC's and CO2 but you increase the particulate levels... a MERV13 furnace filters is a great whole house filter but it does nothing for VOCs... VOCs are the hardest pollutant to deal with and the only solution is a fresh air intake with a particle and carbon filter and your outdoor air must be free from pollution too... if your neighbor is having a BBQ then your fresh air intake is going to suck in all those carcinogenic BBQ fumes that are almost impossible to filter.... this is why governments are directing everyone to electric cars and green energy because they finally realize that combustion activities are literally killing us.
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5:18 Get your facts right. The only way an Air purifier can bring ozone into your house would be If it's IONISATION Mode is ON. Not all Air purifiers create ozone with the ION mode. Good quality ones don't.
So it turns out these excited oxygen species, from anions or cold plasma . Are a universal cancer treatment inducing apoptosis, with the only downside being oxidative stress , that can be managed by hydrogen inhalation. Adding nanoparticles really makes some of these air purifiers almost surgical.
@Marco Polo yeah thats my final answer
@Marco Polo want to know the difference between a good communist and a bad communist ? Money haha fire fixes that
@Marco Polo those are polar extremes . You're an extremist, and
that is malicious debate. Your parents were not classy .
@Marco Polo you want me to travel to you to insult you . Why . If you intention in to assault me with a gun . No . If you have two guns and want to duel. Maybe. If you want to fight . No . I have better things to do
@Marco Polo to be clear a dual for honor is off the table and that was some kind of fugazi bravado right?
"If you can't pronounce the name of the chemicals [...]"
That's a really bad rule of thumb. I can easily pronounce cyanide, arsenic and hydrogen fluoride, and those are really bad for your. I don't really know how to pronounce Methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylarginyl[another 189,766 letters go inside these square brackets; no seriously - it's the full chemical name of a protein made in humans. It is more than 1 µm in length and functions as a molecular spring and is responsible for the passive elasticity of muscles]isoleucine, and it's a fairly vital thing in our body.
Matt your really doubling down on this anti-gas cooking. What is the deal? While we can all agree that combustion is going to produce gas and particulate that can be breathed in which is the need for an exhaust hood. There are other factors to consider: the cost of units gas being cheaper upfront and long term; the responsiveness to cooking electric takes longer to heat up and cool down; the energy consumption and cost attached electric is 2-3 time more energy to cook with than gas and with everything going electric: cars, battery operated tools, electric mowers... the infrastructure is not being maintained let alone expanding, most electric ranges have glass tops which can get break and scratched.
There is some debate over ovens though while electric is slow to heat comparatively they tend to perform better
A good induction range will literally blow away gas in terms of performance.
Buy a Dylos 1100 Pro laser particle detector and have it around the house and look how it explodes in number when you turn on the BBQ or gas cooker, cooking with fire or gas releases an incredible amount of particulate pollution, it might amaze you in comparison to other activities... this is why governments are pushing so hard for a world without combustion energy and transportation, the combustion activities are literally killing us.
If you hold your breath all the time you can avoid a lot of these problems
I think you've solved it, Yitzchak
actually the only solution that works
My windows stay cracked all year round.
The superficial knowledge of "chemistry" from these two guests is striking. Having a PBS series does not impart expertise.
That's nice- but we make a PBS series because of over a dozen years of expertise in testing homes.
Definitely more than superficial. Go spend an hour on their channel. I think an apology is in order
Get lots of plants!
OSB shouldn't be on homes! Keep it moist and put it on your heat vent if you don't believe me! Fiberglass insulation is a sin
Osb and every other wood short of marine grade lumber isn't meant to be wet. At. All. Fungi grow on logs in the forest exposed to rain and you're literally recreating that environment. Fiber glass is meant to stay in the wall undisturbed while the installation dust is vacuumed and removed
@@StealthNinja4577 yeah, there's a special type that love the glues. Hemp should be the standard
@@anthonyman8008 pretty sure if you use hemp more you'll find ones that eat that too
@@StealthNinja4577 think again
@@anthonyman8008 there's one's we're finding that eat plastic that we once thought was inedible.
When people stop maintaining their ERV's there will be problems.
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Ammonia is nitrogen and hydrogen, your breathing it in all the time, inside, outside, literally everywhere. You lost me at that point.
Ditto carbon monoxide. Ditto carbon dioxide. Ditto formaldehyde. Are you really saying you don’t see proportions? All of them have toxic effects when out of normal balance.
both of you need to take a chemistry class at the local community college...
nitrogen is harmless at concentrations found in normal air, it's part of air
hydrogen is harmless at low concentrations, but it's flammable, it's also the main constituent of water, take it out of the water and you get hydrogen fuel (more powerful than gasoline)
but combine these elements into NH3 (ammonia) and it becomes toxic and dangerous and can kill you just by inhaling too much at low concentrations...
this is why only chemists with phd's and toxicologists with MD's should comment on these topics
for example:
OSHA allows 1-5 ppm of ethylene oxide in workplaces
EPA recommends only less than .0001 ppb before it greatly increases your chance of cancer risk
That's a difference of 10-50 million, so either OSHA is killing employees around the country or the EPA is too stringent. I'd personally err on the side of caution and go with the EPA value.
this is not medical advice
@@VenturaIT right, anyone reading this will soon realize you never took grade 12 chem or even first year chem post secondary.
Everyone here has used windex and lived to talk about it, not something you want to smell 24/7 but has never killed anyone when used as intended. Also Ethylene Oxide has more in common with hydrocarbon fuels than it does Ammonia.
I’d recommend you read the Wikipedia on ammonia then the Wikipedia on Dunning Kruger.
These guys don't know what they are talking about, avoid this advice
Instead look up DHMOs or dihydrogen monoxide
Can we keep the snake oil off the channel? While some of the things they are talking about are somewhat true the way they speak to them shows that they clearly have no idea what they are talking about.
Sorry, I had to dislike for the misuse of 'literally'.
It is the correct use of the word. Literally on fire- fire is redox. Look into it.
This is hard to watch. I’d rather listen to Matt covering these topics. Maybe they paid to have a placement on the channel which is fine but I’m skipping this one
It doesn't matter. We are all living much longer. Trying to add a couple of months to the average age of death is a ridiculous pastime
Hey Stephen- you’re right, it’s not about that at all for us. Making sure our kids get to develop to their full potential physically, hormonally, and mentally- that might be worth it, no?
@@HomePerformance science is about controls and quantification. We can't take your kid develop them in a controlled environment and then retest his development with your changes. You could be doing harm, you could have the secret to success, most likely you're doing something inconsequential and just wasting your time. Plenty of people grow up in the hood and get advanced degrees in math and science, and there's plenty of suburban kids that turn into failed drug addicts... I know both personally.
@@HomePerformance isn't that why we are here ? But none of the issues our government are pushing will change their future. They will only make it worse
Not talking about government, talking about your cousin’s house.
I'm going to have a hard time listening to the wisdom of anyone that is a female that has half their head shaved short and the other long..
0 / 5 MIn BS
This is ridiculous.
How about the effects of 5G and record high electromagnetic radiation on vertebrates.
xD the thought of these guys going down that rabbit hole of asterisks. This was such low hanging fruit in comparison.
it's called a microwave oven, or a the cooking of humanity and the wireless corporations know it